When Melaka or Malacca (in English) was founded in 1262, one wouldn’t have gotten an egg ice cream. Forward 858 years and this is the only place in Malaysia to get a perfectly formed EGG ICE CREAM.
A bit
astonished at this brave feat from a small shy animal, he decided to build his city here. Malacca is in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites becos' of its long history of being first colonised by the Portuguese in 1511, then by the Dutch in 1641 followed by a temporary British rule in 1795.
18th Century
Dutch architecture is seen in this Anglican Church built by the Dutch in 1741.
The ceiling rises to 40 feet and the year 1698 is inscribed in the church bell. Drawn by me!
Going to Malacca is a right of passage for Malaysian students. We get dragged to Malacca for a day trip of history lessons on the Dutch, Portuguese and English influence. Melaka has a "rich" Peranakan culture where the Chinese immigrants married the local Malays during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Adult Malaysians flock here for a very
different lesson - to taste the melting pot of the different cultures
created from the infusion of foreign and local flavours.
Savvy K and her friend E made this food trip after being "locked in" for 127 days in Selangor. Their food trail began at the river front with a couple of beers.
Savvy K and her friend E made this food trip after being "locked in" for 127 days in Selangor. Their food trail began at the river front with a couple of beers.
Dinner was at the Portuguese village (a must for all visitors)
where for 125 MYR (30 USD), they had "lala" clam soup,
salted egg prawns (expensive at 55 MYR (3 USD) of total bill), omelette and
fried "sotong" squid.
The next day, they found their way to the famous Yong Peng Fish Ball stall.
Note the many red bowls of noodles they sell daily. Pasted at the bottom half of the stall are all the food reviews.
Front bowl is E's - spicy & hot curry noodles. The plain dry noodles with fish ball soup is Savvy K's who like me, cannot take too spicy food. Gives us the runs!!
After moseying along Jonker street where 17th century old shop houses still stand, I am not sure if its brunch or lunch they shared next, but it sure looked like breakfast to me.
And at last they had the famous cendol (shaved ice with red kidny beans, green jelly, gula melaka and coconut milk).
In 2019, CNN named cendol as one of the top 50 world's best dessert , so remember if you do visit Malaysia, it is cendol you MUST try.
And this is my favourite - cendol/ice kacang (peanuts) with Musang King durian, Burp!
Note: All photos taken by Savvy K
But did they have an egg ice-cream.
ReplyDeleteThe food looks delicious. I like my food spicy, but nowhere near as spicy as my partner. Once he made a 'Malaccan devil's curry (he got the recipe from a book). He contained 40 chillis. I had one bite and it burned going down and it burned coming out.
They did photo and then eat the ice cream. 40 chillies is too much, even I wouldn't be able to handle the hotness. Your partner must be a good chef to cook devil's curry,it is an original Eurasian di👍sh
ReplyDeleteMarriage of foreign and local cuisine makes Malacca a unique taste. My friends who have come there also said so. But my friend did not tell of the existence of ice eggs ... and I was surprised to see the shape in this photo because the shape is really similar to the original egg !.
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