Capitol Satay.

21.11.11 Melaka

This morning started with a move to our third hostel in Melaka and the

best! We have moved in to Roof Top Guest House, which is number 1 on

Tripadvisor and it's not hard to see why. STill a shared bathroom, but

plenty of clean spacious shower/toilet rooms. Our room is large, immaculatly

clean, wifi in our room and the bed is properly made up with a top sheet!

This is something I will nolonger take for granted!

We dropped our bags off and headed for a recommended eatery -Jonkers 88.

We ordered sour laksa and seafood laksa. This was the first meal we've

had in Malaysia that we didn't really enjoy, not because it was a bad

meal it just wasn't to our taste.

We spent the rest of the afternoon, exploring the surrounding quieter

residential streets of Chinatown, decorated with traditional red lanterns.

Temple Street is the home of at least 3 temples, including the beautiful

Cheng Hoon Teng Temple and Masjid Kampung Hulu.

The hostel owner recommended a place called Capitol Satay which is the

original restaurant serving satay celup. When we arrived in the drizzle

there was a long queue, thankfully under cover, which we took as a good sign!

We ended up waiting nearly an hour for a table. Once we got a table we went

up to a fridge cabinet, where there were an array of skewers and plates to choose

from. You could choose from different meats, seafood, tofu, wontons. We

took a selection of a dozen or so back to our table. In the middle of

our table was a metal pot full of a 'satay soup' bubbling away. We were told

to place the skewers in the soup for 2 minutes for it to cook. The soup

was rich and full of flavour and it was all part of the experience as you

picked a skwer each time not sure what delight would be on the end of it!

Part way through the meal one of the waitresses brought over 2 skewers with

a huge king prawn on each one, for only 80 cents! We could not resist! This

time we had to wait 7 minutes and the tricky job of peeling the prawn before

we could sample this delight! The whole meal was a real experience!