Piggy bday trip to Melaka-Part 4 Jonker street

Jonker street in Melaka is probably the most famous street of all. For I keep hearing people to tell me go there when they learnt I am visiting Melaka.

Even Mummy also wanna visit as she stayed here during her school trip more than 40yrs ago. Our mission today is to locate the clan association she stayed and take a photo for her to show to her classmate. *FAINTS*

Jonker street is located right across St Paul's church where there is a bridge over a small stream. Cross it and you will be in Jonker street. There is a Hard rock cafe to the right as you enter Jonker street.

1st look of Jonker street

 三叔公 (San Shu Gong), the shop that sells local specialities is the 1st shop at the junction entering Jonker street.

We took the left lane to the shop and started exploring. The roads were still open to traffic at 4pm. Took a short break at 1 of the shop selling chendol ice. But it is not the 1 that Jin Hang told me to find.

Cars are still allowed at 4pm

Couple tees

 There are alot of shops selling interesting wares here and we went in one by one to check things out.
Funny thing is we brought nothing. Like I mentioned before, I am now at the phase of being afraid to pile things up in my house, therefore I would usually consider very carefully before buying stuff though it is cheap when converted into SG dollars.

 Had wanted to buy the cute couple tees we saw (Disney characters!!) but Mr Love need to remind me that we are in our 30s. So it doesn't seems very apt to wear such cute tees at this age. Gotta stick to the jerseys it seems.

Famous body builder that I dunno. Hehe

 We then managed to locate the statue that Jin Hang was telling me about and the famous chendol shop besides it. Mummy found it too crowded and we gave up and continue walking till she suddenly exclaimed excitedly that she found the clan association that she stayed 40yrs ago.

Man, she was literally jumping with joy since piggy and I keep teasing her that the association might be closed down for all we know. Took a few pictures here for her and we moved on. We did encourage her to go in and take a look but she declined.

So happy that she found the association

 We reached the end of the street and realised many vendors are setting up their stalls for the night market. Time check is 5pm and mummy is screaming that she is hungry.

The thing is, piggy and her couldn't agree what to have for dinner. Piggy wanted to try the local delights while mummy wanted an air-conditioned restaurant.

Muhaha. Suddenly we dunno who is the pampered Singaporean here. Her or us.

Food street

 I guessed mummy is really a true blue Singaporean now, more kiasu and kiasee then the 3 of us. Muhaha. She refused to have dinner at the food street citing hygiene reasons and keep insisting on find an air con restaurant for she is overheated.

Thank god she didn't see how we go around Taiwan. We just randomly buy from the street vendors whenever we are hungry.

See mummy keep fanning herself?

 We decided to walk back to Hard Rock cafe since there is any other air conditioned restaurant in sight. This time we turned into another street that is parallel to Jonker street and began walking.

The street is rather quiet but have quite a few motel/homestay here. I was banking to find the dim sum shop I wanted for tomorrow's breakfast here but was lost in the house numbers.

It is later when I asked a local then we realised we missed the place. Turns out, the shop is right across the mosque that we stopped to check for directions and I totally missed it!

Stopped and checking for directions

 We came across another famous eatery recommended by netizens. A teochew tze char shop which only have 8tables and you need at least 1 week advance booking.

Since the place looked pretty empty, we decided to try our luck and enquired. But the uncle helming the stove was like super duper triple yaya. When we asked whether there are available seats for us to have an early dinner. All he did was to knock on the full house sign in front of his shop with a black face without an answer.

I mean you could have answered and say it's fully booked right? Or to be more polite a bit. But he chose this method to answer us as if he's mute and kept knocking at the sign. So what your eatery is famous and served what people claimed to be authentic Teochew cuisine? Your attitute sucks! I dun pay for poor service no matter how nice the food is. Besides how difficult it is to get good food in Malaysia?

Super Yaya eatery

I love this shot hehe

 We came to the end of the street which brings us back to 三叔公. Did a bit of shopping here and off we went for dinner @ Hard Rock Cafe Melaka.

The famous chicken rice ball shop

 I have never been to Hard Rock cafe despite coming across it in different countries. Since mummy was insistent to eat here, we obliged. More so when piggy offered to pay. Muhaha. You can literally see gleam in my eyes. I started with wanting to order wine which is much more expensive than the main course and of course the most expensive main course in the menu @RM88.

Still empty at 5.30pm

 Piggy gotta stop me half way and told me to order something reasonable. Hehe.

And so we 4 ordered 1 different main course each and shared them around when the food arrives.

Mummy and her grilled chicken

My cheesy pasta and chicken breast

Mr Love's fish and chips

Piggy's steak burger

 The food was pretty decent, at least to me la. Prices was  on the high side but not surprising for Hard Rock but ambience was good.

Half way thru dinner, a heavy downpour came and we were struck in the restaurant. Many others came in to hide from the rain and was throwing angry looks at us for hogging the table. But you all came in because of the rain, we came in way before you because we wanted dinner. I reckon I have every right to stay on even we are finishing dinner.

Plus we did not bring our brollies with us and how are we supposed to get back to hotel in the heavy rain? The waiters couldn't chase us out would they? Mummy was a bit worried. But she knew if they did, I think I would have tore the place up. It's ok if it is me and Mr Love, but mummy was there with us. I couldn't risk having her run in the rain and fall sick.

Anyways, the rain stopped after an hr and we decided to forgo the night market and made our way back to the hotel. Walked throught the shopping center and went for a much need foot massage which costs RM29 for 30min.

It's a much needed one after so much walking today.