Like It Was Just Yesterday: July 2011

Daddy Ngoi has went through a lot these past few years and being able to pull it through only means he is still standing strong despite the age :)

Had dinner with my family in Riblees located in Sri Hartamas. But before that, Boon and I stopped by Coffee Bean to wait for my sister and parents in Mount Kiara. Was suppose to have dinner there initially too but it was fully booked.

Dinner in Riblees made both me and Boon so full! We burp and burp in the car. Boon always say that eating with my family needs a very big appetite and its true. Its not because we order a lot, because what we order is so good that we keep eating and eating.

Ribless Caeser Salad

Riblees Babyback Ribs

St. Louise Style Rib

Oregano Roast Lamb (Not too sure)

Crackling Roast Pork

Pork Bacon Steak

I am not too sure about the name of the food. The food they serve there is good, I had the Pork Bacon Steak and MAN I TELL YOU, THE SAUCE IS AWESOME! And by the end of the night, my 4 year old nephew Marcus slept lol.

About 2 or 3 months ago, I've save up some money in Australia to plan this trip to Malacca with Boon. It was his "so called" birthday present. And since Boon did not give me anything for my birthday (actually he offered but I did not want anything) so he decided to pay for all my expenses in Malacca and I pay for the hotel :)

The trip was 4 days 3 nights, I know its a bit too long for a place like Malacca but 2 weeks before our trip to Malacca, we invited Jason Teh, Aaron, Derrick, Jia Ji and Jack to join us on our second day in Malacca. Practically my Subang kakis. To know Jason and Jack is joining, I know one thing for sure that this trip is gonna be filled with laughter and hell lots of stupid and silly things!

I booked our hotel at Hotel Courtyard @ Heeren which I came across in Natalie Chai's blog which is a good thing because the hotel's location is awesome! Just a row behind Jonker Street plus it was near the place where Subang kakis are staying; a house they rent in Kota Laksamana.

Day1:

We did not do much. Basically we walked around Jonker Street and chilled in Geographer Cafe; Boon had a pine of Hoegaarden while I had a huge coconut with spicy potato wedges. It was very comfortable until a bunch of China people visiting Malacca stopped by the cafe and a bunch of kids running around with their bottle of water pretending it is a gun and phewphewphew with each other =.= What was worse was that they ran around my table! Made me feel damn annoyed and gave me another reason why I dont like kids.

First thing he did right after we reach.

Our room balcony.

At night, we went to Dataran Pahlawan to get some DVDs cause our hotel room has a DVD player and had very very bad dinner in Newtown food court. THE FOOD THERE SUCKS! We do not know where to have awesome dinner cause .. although I have been to Malacca many many times with my collegemates but I dont recognize the places and restaurant so yeah, we suffered.

Day 2:

Thank god the next day the Subang kakis came but they reached at night about almost midnight! So during the day Boon and I walked around Jonker Street again and had coffee and ice kacang :) I like how the coffee shops looks like there because it looks old school. The aunty and uncle there is so friendly and warm! The coffee shop reminds me of my grandparent's house back in Butterworth.

When the Subang kakis came at night and had our supper, we went back to their house and played ... SCRABBLE! No drinking game, no cards games, no poker but more knowledgeable game hahaha! Influenced by a game called Hanging With Friends that I have been playing on my iPhone. Also another reason is because Boon forgot to bring his poker chips and Jack forgot to bring his too. So yeah, Scrabble it is then.

Day 3:

Woke up in the evening and off we went to eat satay babi. YES PORK PUNYA SATAY! I have been to Malacca so many times and I've only heard satay celup and then Derrick introduce us satay babi. OMG SATAY BABI IS SO GOOD :D How it works is they keep serving you, 10 sticks by 10 sticks. And they will keep serving you until you ask them to stop. One stick is about 60 or 70 cents. CHEAP!

Notice how everyone is wiping their mouth and sweat? I find it amusing lol.

We wanted to try the coconut shake that Julian and Derrick recommended but sadly it was closed :( And the place that they sell coconut shake is quite deep inside, like kampung area. Since it was closed, we went back to Jonker Street to have some cendol and ice kacang. By then, they started setting up the night market on Jonker so it was very packed! Plus it was the weekend so it was packed with homosapiens!

Then we went back to their house to chill. On the way back, Boon tapaoed fried oyster that according to the uncle that guard our car in our hotel say its famous. Derrick took a nap while Boon, Jason and I played Scrabble (and I lose, no surprise there cause I am bad at words. England no good) and the rest just running around in their boxes and some played Hanging With Friends.

Derrick caught me taking pictures of him so he turned back lol. Btw, he cant live without the small pillow he stole from MAS Airline lol.

Jason look damn uncle here hahaha!

THEN IT IS SATAY CELUP TIME O.O I never fancy satay celup because I dont really like the sauce. The sauce has peanuts in them and I dont like eating peanuts or any kind of nuts so I did not eat much. And after that we went drinking at Ant Bar. Its so hard to find a place to drink in Malacca. Did not know they have a club there too haha. Half of us were playing liar's dice (dai wa sik) and the other half played chor dai di and Monopoly Deal.

Day 4 (Last day):

Since we did not have chicken rice ball for lunch the day before plus Boon and I had to check out by 12pm, we both went over to their house, wake them up, wait for them to pack and clean up the place AND OFF WE WENT TO HAVE OUR CHICKEN RICE BALLS! Also because Boon never had them before and it was quite some time since Boon actually went to Malacca. And DAMN IT WAS SATISFYING :D :D :D :D