Made a trip from Singapore to Malacca in May with the missus. First Malacca trip since Covid. We took the 707 bus from Queen Street, and the journey was pretty fast. There were hardly any other busses at Tuas checkpoint, .... something never seen pre-covid.
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| Queen Street |
Our first lunch stop was at Wazen Japanese food. Food is decent.
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| Wazen |
Next we went hunting for our favourite cake joint, Nadeje.
Nadeje is no longer at Mahkota Parade. It has moved a few hundred meters away to Parade Mahkota.
It took us 15 minutes to walk to the new place from Mahkota Parade. The new shop is in the middle of nowhere. I guess it is not a bad location if you drive. Walking in 35 degrees heat is another matter though, especially since there is no straight path from the old location to the new one.
The pastries are just as nice. Quality is maintained, though I doubt we will frequent it as often now since it is no longer as convenient.
We took Grab to Portugese settlement for dinner and selected Stall 1. First thing about the place is that there are lots of touts, who starts swarming around you the minute you stepped out of the car.
Secondly, since it is night time when we reached the place, we cannot exactly see the sea. There are residential houses around the place.
The food is generally ok except for the scallop. Nothing to shout about, just decent. The flesh of the fish is smooth. Cooking style is similar to how you would do it with Stingray in Singapore, except this is not a Stingray. Next time, if we ever decide to come again, we will try the oyster, which is sold by another store.
One dish that we were very disappointed with, is the scallop. The scallop is really really thin. Maybe 3mm thin. I have never eaten such small scallops. Did the chef slice off three quarters of the meat and just serve us a small portion attached to the shell?
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| Really thin scallop |
