Melaka Days 1 and 2

Since this was a foodie trip... 

First some freshly-baked pastries 

Daily Fix for dinner:  My fav sweet/savoury pancakes with bacon, sausage and caramelised banana was good as usual.  SE tried the risotto which was decent.  

Happy diners

JE's smoked duck was tasty but way too salty.  They should have served salad with this or halved the duck.

 

Smoked super-salty duck

The next day, tried Wild Coriander since my sis raved about it.  Hmm all the signature dishes were only average.  Concluded my sis doesn't have very good judgement haha.  Messaged her (she happened to have gone to Melaka as well a couple of days earlier) and she complained the standard had gone down.  Oh ok then.

Pie tee

Beef rendang platter and Nyonya laksa

JE perked up after getting a drink.  Tried the new blue drink from Zus.

Velvet Blue Smoothie 

What I like about Melaka is I could book accommodation near the happening Jonker Street, park upon arrival and not need to drive out anywhere. Traffic in Melaka is usually heavy and parking isn't easy to come by.  JE did want satay celup though which was not quite within walking distance.  Taking Grab to Ban Lee Siang cost only RM5, perfect!  The timing of our trip was great - since it was just after the Merdeka PH, the crowds had thinned out considerably.  It was only a short wait before we got our table.

We happily picked out sticks of food to dip into the peanut sauce to boil.  Hey but where were my favourite cockles?!  Sigh.  Probably they were not in season.  Cockles are getting rare these days.  As for the sauce, confirmed I prefer it compared to McQuek's.  Enjoyed our dinner which was cheap at below RM50 (would have been more if there had been cockles for me to pig out on!).

Yum yum

JE tried out the new matcha flavour from Mixue while waiting for our Grab back.

Quite good

So glad we took Grab, worth it as a fuss-free, stress-free solution.