Food exploration.....Melaka...part one....

The first trip of 2009...after a long planning..finally we managed to fix a date to go for food hunting...

The first station we attacked was MELAKA.

At first we planned to go on the Saturday...but we really cant wait to taste the food over there..Thus, we decided to attack straight after work..on FRIDAY..

This is my first trip with my colleague in the new company..all of us are food lover...even during our normal lunch time daily, we have been talking about food..normally we cant really go home on time, especially Friday...However, for the food, we decided to break the record, go back on time that Friday..once the clock ticked at 5.15pm..5 of us quietly leave the office...Melaka..here we come....!!

We have planned the day before how is our schedule for the trip..on Friday night , we should go for the DIRTY STREET in Melaka. This is at JALAN BUNGA RAYA..All Melaka people will know this place...Then we should have time for the Jonker street shopping and lastly we should go for the SATAY celup...However, sometimes, plan dint realy work like what we have planned.

According to the perfect plan, we should reach Melaka by 9pm the latest should we leave on time from KL...Well..u know..traffic in Kl always unpredictable...End up we only started our journey from Nilai ard 9pm...all the way there were accidents and due to the curious Malaysian who stop for 5 mins each car that caused the jam..end up we only reached Melaka by 10.30pm.

Immediately we searched for the Dirty street whichwas famous for the Lala and the oyster ( Si Ham). If you have been to Melaka, you will notice that the some of the traffic lights are hung on top of the post with the Counter. For us who have not been to this place for long long time, dint really notice the traffice light, we thought it was just a junction. By the time we turned and found out the traffic light turned RED....guess what....we heard...PHEW..PHEW....coming from the back of our car...The hardworking POLICE uncle stopped us...at 10.30pm...!!!

The first thing the Uncle say was: U know? the compouding for the crossing the RED light is very high....He was hinting us....So we beg for a chance ...u know ...what he said?? Uncle: HOw you want to settle this? We mentioned we were not local, dint notice the traffic light was there. Uncle: every where u see the RED light you must stop...ya...we know...but we also know what you want form us...we offered RM 20 to him...haha..he immediately opened the small booklet of his..went to the back of the car..pretending to write down something..Finally we managed to settle this small matter with big offense with RM 30....wtf...what a hardworking uncle ya.....

The Dirty street is a back lane which only open for business at night. When we reached after the stupid incident with the Uncle, our stomach was crying for hunger.

Look at the small wooden chair. We just sat down and eat.

Even Ah XIAN from Atsro and Singaporean actors have visited this place

Roasted Lala and Osyter ( Si Ham)

The food tasted very fresh, we eat with the chili sauce specially for this, u can taste the freshness and juiciness of the food. We dont need special recipe sometimes for good food. Anyhow, the food servicing is too small for us especialy there are 5 guys among us, with only 4 small plates of LALA and SI HAM, cant really satisfied us. We also ordered steam prawn together with fruit rojak...still unsatisfied...SO..better move on to the next station.....by this time it was around 11.30pm....we dint manage to go Jonker street for the pasar malam...huh.....