Throughout the trip, we went to several local produce shops and my mum bought her all time favourite, the chicken biscuits (geh zai biang). There was even Tongkat Ali for sale. LOL! Ah Hong revealed that this local produce shop was owned by the boss of 5 Star Travel Agency. Ha. Smart boss.

And after such a long introduction, what I wanted to say was that as our tour group was leaving the hotel though the main entrance, the uncle who drank beer at every meal let me pass first. So he walked behind me, and was just next to this couple-like siblings (yes, from now on, I shall refer them as the couple-like siblings). Do you have any idea what he said? "You two are very close. Very good, very good." OMG LOL! I had to try to hard to contain my laughter.

Now, back to the attractions. We went to the Thean Hou Temple, and it was said that the Ma Zu Niang Niang is super accurate. So my family went in to gave our prayers and we took turns to draw lots. The lots this time round was not the small kind which you have to shake till one lot drops out. You basically just hold the bunch of huge lots up (they are so huge, they are taller than my waist!) and then draw the one that pops up higher as compared to the rest. I didn't know, you know. I simply chose one lot anyhow from the rest. I ended up worrying if the lot I drew was the one meant for me. And I still don't know yet.

We explored around the temple and they had all 12 statues of the animals in the Chinese calendar. We tried to take a photo with each and every statue - we were very rushed because there wasn't much time left. But all the statues were very pretty! Especially the Dragon. Hee hee.

Next, we had Pahang Bak Kut Teh. I think the restaurant we went to was called Yeo's or something like that. There was a little unhappiness there because the restaurant was very popular among the locals. So just because we were a few minutes late, the restaurant gave up the tables reserved for us to the locals. We all felt that the restaurant was at fault and that Ah Hong should have called the restaurant when we were about to reach the restaurant. Anyway, we stood around and waited for some tables to clear before we had our lunch. The Bak Kut Teh was not bad - I don't really know how to appreciate great-tasting food - and there was even pork knuckles in vinegar and veggie and pig organ soup. If not for the fact that we were travelling down to Malacca from KL, I would have drank all the soup!

We reached Malacca and I saw the Eye On Malaysia. It's actually a ferris wheel. Ah Hong says that it was moved to Malacca from some other state because it wasn't popular anymore. Made me think of the Singapore Flyer. Haha. We checked into a hotel and because we had 1.5 hours of rest before gathering for dinner, my mum was troubled over whether or not we should change our clothes before gathering for dinner. My mum's always worried about such stuff. Her reasoning was that if you didn't change your clothes, you'd be seen as the smelly one; if you changed clothes, you have bathe super fast and she would have more washing to do (yeah 'cos my sister and I take around 45 minutes to bathe usually). We decided to shake the die in our Samsung phone. Odd number means to bathe and even number means not to. There were 2 votes to bathe and 2 not to bathe, so the deciding vote was on my turn. LOL. It said to bathe. Even so, my mum was still debating with herself. She's like this. She never decides on something by flipping coins or shaking die or whatsoever.

In the end, when my family came down to the lobby to assemble, no one changed their clothes except for the uncle who drinks beer at every meal and his wife. My mum said that we didn't have to bathe too. Oh well. Maybe she thinks too much. I wouldn't have bothered thinking about such stuff if I came on a holiday alone.

Maybe I should talk about the hotel a little bit. It's the Hotel Equatorial, and it looks really simple and mature. (I can't use the word 'old', you see.) It wasn't as high class as Prince Hotel, but it was quite spacious for my room. Ah Hong said that the lifts are slow, and yes, they really ARE slow. But it's not an issue to me. In addition, the toilet was very small, and I was so not used to it. Prince Hotel had a bath tub and and separate shower room, but Hotel Equatorial had the shower head and bath tub in the same area! But the design on the furniture and everything had a touch of age on them. So I kinda had the feeling that it was home. Haha.

Anyway, we had Nyonya dinner and IT'S NOT THE SAME RESTAURANT I WENT TO!!!! I was quite disappointed because the restaurant I went to had superb chendol. My dad adores chendol. Ah Hong said that he didn't go to the one I went because their food wasn't as good as this one, although the Nyonya dishes filmed in Channel 8's "The Little Nyonya" was cooked by the restaurant I went to. Anyway, as usual, we had chicken and fish, but now there's otah (it was nice) and sotong (it was fantastic, I wish I could finish the whole thing but I didn't want to be a disgrace to the NTU student and his family) and there are crabs too. OMG. Who was the one who decided on the menu? So dumb to have crabs la. My mum and my sisters and me didn't want to dirty our fingers, so we didn't have the crabs. My dad had as much as he wanted. LOL. And dessert, was chendol of course. It wasn't as good as the restaurant I went to before. But still above average anyway.

Next, we went to Jonker Street. The street's like 1 km long only, but 1 hour is certainly not enough if you want to look at most stuff or try the food there. It's something like one whole stretch of pasar malam. My sister took a long time trying to get something for her friend, and we weren't even halfway through the 1 km street when we saw Ah Hong the tour guide making his way back to the gathering spot. So we kinda rushed through the street and rushed back. I wish we had more time! I can easily spend a couple of hours at Jonker Street. Anyway, I bought some earrings. But there's one that's so loud that it doesn't really suit me, and I probably won't wear it anyway. LOL.

We went back to Hotel Equatorial and I was SOOOOOOO hungry! I ate half of the packet of fish crackers we brought into Malaysia from Singapore. I wanted to try ordering food into the room, but one cup of coffee already costs like RM 14 bucks, I decided not to try.

This time round, my sisters and I decided to soak ourselves in the bath tub. But it was already 10 plus pm when we went back into our rooms, I set a rule that each person can only soak herself for 20 minutes max. LOL. I need to bathe too!!! But because of some stupid problem, I didn't even get to enjoy soaking in the bath tub for as long as I wanted.

Ah. Just realised I forgot to add in the Thean Hou Temple photos. Oh well. I'll do it in another blog post. =)