Uncertain about what to do in Melaka we booked into our hostel for two nights last night. After our first round of sightseeing though, we felt like this would be a bit excessive. Turns out, canceling one night was harder than we thought though, so we ended up staying to not waste those $20.

Coffee, tea, muesli, toast and jam…it had everything that we wanted

It was not all bad though, since this gave us a chance to finally fully catch up with the blog and get some postcards sorted. Not before a good long breakfast, though. Unfortunately, the 3 year old Lonely Planet turned out to be useless once again. No Chinese breakfast treats for us then. Instead we found a cute and cozy western style cafe. The prices were steep, comparatively, but the food and coffee were excellent.

We made up for the expensive breakfast a while later, when we re-emerged from our hotel to have lunch in a nice Chinese Vegetarian restaurant. For about a third of the price of our breakfast. We also found our Malaysian go-to drink in the form of lemon iced tea (That is tea on ice with lemon juice). Cheap as and so refreshing.

View along the river towards our guest house

After lunch, we walked once again to A’Famosa and the area with all the attractions to get stamps from the post office. On our way back, we took the scenic route along the river. It is very pretty, a bit reminiscent of Amsterdam, but would be improved dramatically if it were not for the smell. We got rewarded though by spotting a pretty large reptile swimming in the river.

By this point I almost dread going into detail for another meal, but for us the last attraction of the day was going to an Indian banana leaf restaurant. Banana leaf, because instead of a plate, you get a large piece of banana leaf put on the table in front of you, a bit like a place mat. On that the waiters put the rice and a couple of veggie / stew things plus some curry over the rice. it was, once again, delicious. After that, we rewarded ourselves with a coffee and chai – Nina remarked that it was almost as good as dessert 😉

Yeah, Melaka, lot’s of food 🙂