Friday October 25

Kampung Kling Mosque

We boarded the bus to Malacca this morning and arrived in Malacca at 1 pm.  We crossed onto Malaysia after 1 hour and the roads in Malaysia are good.  Malacca is a UNESCO recognised village that has been a major seaport and trading town since 1400.  It has been owned, at various times, by the Sumatrans, Portuguese, Dutch, English and now Malaysia.   It is a popular destination for tourists and is famous for it’s mixture of cultures and fabulous food.   Our hotel is in Chinatown and this is the happening part of the city.  Shopping is good, but at night the street is blocked to cars and 1000’s of vendors put up stalls or have their carts on the main road.  After dark we wandered down main street and marvelled at the pure junk and gaudy beads that tourists will buy.  There is lots of food on the street as well.  Home-made potato chips, tarts and pastries, small squid skewers,  quail eggs and much more.  Even if I wasn’t hungry Joan made me eat the squid and the quail eggs.  Then she tried the potato chip, which we both liked.  The potato chip was made from one whole potato that was skewered first, sliced partially through on a lathe and stretched out on the skewer, and then deep fried.   All of the hot food is cooked right on the street in various ovens and fryers.  This makes our barbecues look sad.       
                                                                 

Quail eggs

Potato Spreader

                                                                                                

     

Potato Slicer