Showing posts with label jonker street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jonker street. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

A trip to the Chetti Caterers in Jonker Street Malacca

Saturday, March 09, 2013 1 Comments
Remember my old post here about a trip to an unknown part of Jonker Walk in Malacca? This is a detailed follow up after 3 years.The other day, under the sweltering heat of Malacca town, my mother in law and I walked under the generous shade of the golf umbrella to the chetti shop that does the catering for my husband's families many occasions. The chetti is always hard to reach, he's either in KL or jetting off to London to cook for Indian temples there. We finally caught hold of him two days ago and decided to pay him a visit to settle pending payments. After a walk down winding back-alleys of Jonker Street we came across this wonderful haven filled with clusters of people working under the Malacca heat with humongous fireplaces and gigantic woks. Indeed it was a sight to behold. Impressive, yes. Interesting, yes. Truly Malaccan, indeed yes.










Friday, October 22, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Cendol, Coconut Shake and Sight Seeing @ Malacca

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 0 Comments
Some more pictures! I had written two reviews for TripAdvisor, and I hope they publish it!


 
Loved the "Penchetak"

Old is gold!

 This guy makes so much money selling coconut blended with ice and vanilla ice cream. If he starts mixing it with Malibu I bet he will get all more non-muslim crowd!


 
The crowd at this shack was unbelievable. There was a long Q forming outside stretching to the roadside!

Chendol in an old shop at Jonker Street. I had blog about this shop last year as well.

Some old coins and money on display

Salvaged artifacts

Malacca As You Have Never Seen Before

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 0 Comments
We were walking to some Indian food shop to deliver some chapatis his mom had made. He took me to walk in the alleyway along Jonker Street and gosh I felt as if I was transformed back in time! The doors were slim and tall (just the way I like it!) and the whole place is so old and antique...then we came to the back of the restaurant and I was surprised to see them cooking using firewood!!! In Malaysia!! Firewood!! Shocking isn't it? The back of the restaurant smelled of spices and it was soo hot I started to sweat. I don't know how these guys can take the heat. (And this confirms it what goes in your curry dhal and makes it so yummy!) Never mind the pots were huge enough to sit a man or two and sauna themselves!!

I had fun! The guy even posed for a shot!

The back alleyway


Man cooking something

Water boiling

Man posing


The door to an old abandon shoplot

You don't get Lonely Planet to come this far!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Jacuzzi with a view of the Sea

Monday, January 11, 2010 2 Comments
I had some free time so I jumped into the nearest open air jacuzzi I could find in town

Mind you, it was 12 noon, the sun was blistering hot but believe it or not I was feeling cold because directly in front of me was the Straits of Malacca.I was like 10 mins in the water then off again wrapped in towels. It was that good! Hot and cold!! Loved it!!!

Some pictures to make you jealous.

Lovely isn't it? The river opens up to South China Sea. Hidden by the trees on the left

Had to look for the Green button to switch this thing on

That's Jonker Street right there!

That's the famous Malacca River

Probably the highest tree around. LOL!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Satish and Me in Malacca and KL

Wednesday, September 09, 2009 0 Comments
We had such a lovely time together. Me and Satish. We ate ice kacang together, went to Jonker Street, whizzed on bikes, drank at Geographer's, went for G.I Joe and had plain fun being just together



In the car



Sipping mango ice kacang...



...in an antique shop



Dinner at a Chinese Vegan shop



I was just messing around...



...in the tea shop