GRADUALLY DARK swallow the twilight of evening and neon lights from roadside post showering into the roads. We started feel hungry after walking around and seek a good foods to taste. Few minutes later, we found a gate of China Town where is full of lights and crowd. We joined those crowd and check the foods we'ld like eat. At one place, I saw a restaurant familiar to me before and remember it by appearance. Because last time visit, my Malacca resident friend brought us her for special lunch. He used to boast how the foods in his home-town are delicious by letting us try them. This chicken rice ball shop is one of them. That's why I clearly remember this shop despite last visit had been 5 years ago. Without a shadow of doubt, I straight away went into the shop. I saw some customers are queuing for their turn. So I asked one staff where is starting point of queue and take position together with my wife and friend.
15minutes later, time come for ours. Luckily we are the last customers to let in for that night. After our turn, the staffs closed the entrance door to prevent new customers as there are no more foods to sell. We saw all table are full with family union dinner. People seems so enjoy the foods and the environment is quite noisy with their cheerful sound. The camera flash are unstoppable. We are only asked if we want normal rice or rice balls. We choose rice balls for new experience. The waiter suggest to order for 21 balls for 3 adult. We have no idea how many balls would be enough for one person. He also suggest us to order chicken for two adults rather than three. Perhaps they haven't enough meals to sell because we are the last table to be served. Anyway we enjoy the foods so much. It cost us only RM-20.00 for 3 persons. We surprised once we see the bills as we thought it would be expensive. No wonder this restaurant is popular among local as well as visitors. The taste are good and price are affordable.
After dinning, we get out of shop to tour the town. We continue to walk through China Town. People are going there and here. The street is full of shops. People are enjoying the foods and things. Some shops sell present items. Since the street is too long, we felt tired and wanted to get out of this area. The problem is we have no place to rest/sleep. At one place, I approach a staff of one coffee shop and ask him if I can get a room nearby or not. He suggested me to hire taxi and look for a room outside town area. He insists me no more hotel room that area. So we go back the way we came without having a place in mind. Once we reach other end, we found a river cruise station. People are queuing there to board a boat. I suddenly got idea to ride that and convinced my company. We rush there and queue for our turn. There are several boats in the river canal. The Malacca river is wide about 20 to 30 ft. The quality of water is not good enough and taste salty. We are needed to wait for half an hour to reach our turn. It cost us RM-10.00 each for about 1 hour ride up and down. The views of either bank are nice. There are cross pedestrian bridge over the river canal. The river bank and bridges are under colorful spotlight. We see some public parks, tame parks, water fountain, hotels, traditional Malay village, mono-rail, beautiful landscape, etc. I am sure they try to duplicate Venice of Italy. They may want to become eastern Venice. It's money worthy trip anyway. We forget our troubles and problems at least for an hour.
After river cruise finished, we walk back on the road to find a 24 hours operated shops or entertainment area. Moment later we found a Mac Donal and decided to spend our night there if we can't find a proper place. We went to a big shopping center to spend time effectively from there. On the way to shopping mall, I saw a cinema signboard which is made by neon light at the another shopping mall building. Immediately I told my wife and friend to watch mid-night movie to spend our time. The time is still about 11:00pm. They easily agree with ideas and we changed direction toward the cinema mall. Cinema complex is at the top of the building. We went up all the way through escalator. We saw few people going up and we felt unsecure to go up. After considering to go back, we found a group of students who told us there is cinema show at mid night for sure. So we follow them and reach the top floor. There are 10 cinema box on the same floor. We can choose favourite from several movie. We choose Shoalin Movie to watch and buy 3 ticket for 12:50am show.
The movie is quite entertain and good to spend our boring time. My wife initially told me she will sleep in the theater but she enjoyed it. It's is a good movie from China. Once movie is finished, the clock show at 3:00am. We still have to wait to reach dawn. It's so slow time going in our mind. We follow others by a lift and reach at ground floor where we find a Mac Donald shop. The wind is cool and blowing all direction. We felt cool and sleepy. We entered the Mac Donald and ordered 2 coffee, 1 hot milo and medium sized french fried. We stayed there until 5:30am. Then we get out of the shop and cool wind rush at us and kissed dearly. The night seems too long for us on the road. We are moving back to tourist area where another mac donald shop exist. We again enter and ordered 1 milo and 1 ice lemon tea. My wife can't bear to stay awake. She fall asleep on the sofa of Mac Donald. My friend also seems give up his eyes. I braved myself to stay fresh by drinking hot milo because I have to explain if any complain arisen from staffs. What a terrific night is it? But we taste it really and we'll never easily forget that experience.
15minutes later, time come for ours. Luckily we are the last customers to let in for that night. After our turn, the staffs closed the entrance door to prevent new customers as there are no more foods to sell. We saw all table are full with family union dinner. People seems so enjoy the foods and the environment is quite noisy with their cheerful sound. The camera flash are unstoppable. We are only asked if we want normal rice or rice balls. We choose rice balls for new experience. The waiter suggest to order for 21 balls for 3 adult. We have no idea how many balls would be enough for one person. He also suggest us to order chicken for two adults rather than three. Perhaps they haven't enough meals to sell because we are the last table to be served. Anyway we enjoy the foods so much. It cost us only RM-20.00 for 3 persons. We surprised once we see the bills as we thought it would be expensive. No wonder this restaurant is popular among local as well as visitors. The taste are good and price are affordable.
After dinning, we get out of shop to tour the town. We continue to walk through China Town. People are going there and here. The street is full of shops. People are enjoying the foods and things. Some shops sell present items. Since the street is too long, we felt tired and wanted to get out of this area. The problem is we have no place to rest/sleep. At one place, I approach a staff of one coffee shop and ask him if I can get a room nearby or not. He suggested me to hire taxi and look for a room outside town area. He insists me no more hotel room that area. So we go back the way we came without having a place in mind. Once we reach other end, we found a river cruise station. People are queuing there to board a boat. I suddenly got idea to ride that and convinced my company. We rush there and queue for our turn. There are several boats in the river canal. The Malacca river is wide about 20 to 30 ft. The quality of water is not good enough and taste salty. We are needed to wait for half an hour to reach our turn. It cost us RM-10.00 each for about 1 hour ride up and down. The views of either bank are nice. There are cross pedestrian bridge over the river canal. The river bank and bridges are under colorful spotlight. We see some public parks, tame parks, water fountain, hotels, traditional Malay village, mono-rail, beautiful landscape, etc. I am sure they try to duplicate Venice of Italy. They may want to become eastern Venice. It's money worthy trip anyway. We forget our troubles and problems at least for an hour.
After river cruise finished, we walk back on the road to find a 24 hours operated shops or entertainment area. Moment later we found a Mac Donal and decided to spend our night there if we can't find a proper place. We went to a big shopping center to spend time effectively from there. On the way to shopping mall, I saw a cinema signboard which is made by neon light at the another shopping mall building. Immediately I told my wife and friend to watch mid-night movie to spend our time. The time is still about 11:00pm. They easily agree with ideas and we changed direction toward the cinema mall. Cinema complex is at the top of the building. We went up all the way through escalator. We saw few people going up and we felt unsecure to go up. After considering to go back, we found a group of students who told us there is cinema show at mid night for sure. So we follow them and reach the top floor. There are 10 cinema box on the same floor. We can choose favourite from several movie. We choose Shoalin Movie to watch and buy 3 ticket for 12:50am show.
The movie is quite entertain and good to spend our boring time. My wife initially told me she will sleep in the theater but she enjoyed it. It's is a good movie from China. Once movie is finished, the clock show at 3:00am. We still have to wait to reach dawn. It's so slow time going in our mind. We follow others by a lift and reach at ground floor where we find a Mac Donald shop. The wind is cool and blowing all direction. We felt cool and sleepy. We entered the Mac Donald and ordered 2 coffee, 1 hot milo and medium sized french fried. We stayed there until 5:30am. Then we get out of the shop and cool wind rush at us and kissed dearly. The night seems too long for us on the road. We are moving back to tourist area where another mac donald shop exist. We again enter and ordered 1 milo and 1 ice lemon tea. My wife can't bear to stay awake. She fall asleep on the sofa of Mac Donald. My friend also seems give up his eyes. I braved myself to stay fresh by drinking hot milo because I have to explain if any complain arisen from staffs. What a terrific night is it? But we taste it really and we'll never easily forget that experience.
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