20.11.11 Melaka
Our first stop today was the Baba-Nonya heritage museum, which is a
Pernakan town house. The museum was set up by the family that have owned
and originally lived in it for 4 generations. It is a beautiful
traditional malaysian merchants house and still has all the furniture and
belongings in place from the beginning of the 19th century. We were given a
tour, along with a large group of giggling girls from a school netball
team (I think Martin was a bit of a distraction at times!). Our guide
was quite amusing, throwing in a few casually sexist jokes, which went
down well with her current audience! The house had 2 open courtyards
dividing the house in to thirds, this gave plenty of light and air to
the house. It gave an interesting insight in to the lives of the upper
classes, I really enjoyed having a nose at their belongings!
It was hot, sticky and rainy this afternoon and Martin is still missing
watching films so we decided to pay another visit to the cinema and
watched Immortals - a great film to watch in the cinema.
Dinner this evening was simple and exquisite! Back at the night
market we started the evening by watching Doctor Ho Eng Hui who stabs a
hole in a coconut with his finger, in order to sell his 'miracle oil'.
It is impressive and he is a world record holder! Then, we each took a bag and
picked 6 dim sum off the market stall, armed with a skewer we headed
for a curb seat where we could hear the finely wailed karaoke going on on the permanent
stage set up in Jonkers Walk.
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