Left for Malacca in the morning of 17th January 2009. Stopped for breakfast at Gelang Patah. It was almost close to 10am, and out of a dozen of shophouses only 3 were open for biz. People cannot change money. A lady from our group borrowed Rm 10 from me which she subsequently returned after changing with the tour guide. The chinese tour guide named Peter was polite, knowledgeable and is good in Mandarin, English & Malay. I was surprised with his good command of English, a great general knowledge and historical dates.
First stop was at Yong Peng. Its a shop which sells snacks & tid bits. Peter then announced that next we are going to seafood shop but to our surprise it turn out to be a dried salted fish shop. Items were expensive there too according to fellow travellers. Next we went for lunch at Newton Food Court, a big giant and very airy makan place which is quite big and houses only 6 stalls which includes a single drinks stall.
After that we left for the Peranakan museum. The Peranakan were well to do, at least the generation that owns the museum that we visited. An internal tour guide lectured on the Peranakan and their lifestyle and culture. We then left by the side to Jonkers Street, which is their Chinatown.
The time was 4.30pm, we boarded the bus to get back to Singapore. We stopped at Simpang Renggam for dinner. There were a total of 8 people who are muslims who were let off by the stalls near the main road. I had nasi ayam goreng and a few sticks of satay for dinner. We crossed the checkpoint and arrived back at our boarding point at ST Aerospace at 11.30pm.
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