Melaka is a historic town roughly halfway between Singapore and KL. If KL is Malaysia's Tokyo, Melaka could be seen as Malaysia's Kyoto, a city that was great in the past and now is seen as a historic town.
One of the draws of Melaka is the famous Christ Church, built by the Dutch in 1753 and is still in use today as a church.
Christ Church at night
There's a fountain and a companion building next door too
Christ Church is near a river that cuts through the city
It looks like a work in progress...
We met up with Yi-Lin's cousin who is an architect here. She took us to the best siew yuk hawker stall in the universe.
That's some siew yuk mein, wontons and some sour plum drink that was pretty good
Here's a close up. It really was THAT good!
We also learned a lesson in etiquette when YL tried to place our order, she went up to the front of the hawker cart instead of going round to the back. It placed us as outsiders and everyone got a good laugh. We got the last laugh at the end because we got our orders first!! Wahahahahah!
After we visited Christ Church and toured the historic quarter, we were back on the Federal Highway to Singapore. 2 more hours to go...
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