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Objectives

A. Satisfy satay celup craving.
B. Check out the scorpions sold on Jonker St.

What happened?

4pm - Left Klang after picking Esther up. We wanted satay celup pretty badly la. Bad enough to head to Melaka to eat and come straight back.

5.45pm - Ran out of fuel on Kilometre 197.8 (Ayer Keroh exit). Rang up Plus Highway for assistance. Memorise this number… 1800-88-0000 it’s useful, trust me. They arrived in about 15 minutes (to my surprise), towed my car pass the toll exit and fetched me RM9 worth of petrol. Lesson learned - Not many Shells along Plus. Fuck Bonuslink. Settle for Petronas.

6.45pm - Arrived at the red church. Took pix and helped a group of over-enthusiastic cinabengs snap some pix. Walked across the bridge and..

7.15pm - Arrived at Jonker St. Yayy :P  Half of the vendors just started setting up their stalls. Including the pet stall. Scorpions sighted. Good news: RM30 each, which is half the price of those sold in Ikano. Bad news: 8cm, which is about 3/4 the size of those sold in Ikano. Too tiny!

8pm - Shopping! Bought 2 pairs of slippers, a pair of crafted clogs and some other stuff while sipping on delicious bubble milk tea. Very the enjoy de gan jue. Food here is so damn cheap! Any 4 pieces of siu mai / 1 taiwanese sausage for only RM1.50 and bubble milk tea for RM2.50, that’s freaking cheappp!!!

9.30pm - Headed to Jalan Ong Kim Wee for authentic Melaka satay celup (best of the best).

1am - Got Esther home safely and left Klang still digesting the RM22 worth of satay celup.

Pixxx

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01> The pic that everyone takes to prove that they’re in Melaka.

02> Happy Esther

03> My pair of freshly crafted wooden clogs and the craftsman himself, Mr Wong of Purple Flowers Handicraft.

04> Satay celup - Mission accomplished.

Show me the money la

Toll - RM40 for return trip
Petrol - bout RM50
Food - bout RM30
Shopping - RM90
Total - RM210

The evolution of clogs

Being half Nyonya, I’d like to highlight one of our heritage’s most popular icon - Clogs. The Wong family of Purple Flowers Handicrafts produces high quality handcrafted clogs and sells them on Jonker St every Fri - Sunday. I’m very pleased with my dragon motiff clogs which I got for RM73 (RRP: RM89.90).

You can get them to do you customised clogs too. Just give them your design. I even saw a pair of snoopy clogs. Wtf? Anyway, Mr Wong is already training his young kid who’s about 11 yrs old. I guess the evolution of clogs is here to stay

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