Malacca City, has a colonial past seen in its preserved town center, the site of 16th-century, Portuguese St. Paul’s Church. It’s also home to Christ Church, built by the Dutch in the 18th century and converted to the Anglican denomination under British rule in the 19th century.  As you can see it has had a very busy history.

Desiree and I drove down to this UNESCO World Heritage Site last week from KL to check it out.  We wondered around the city and I went on a boat ride

We had some excellent food and I am wondering if anyone knows what fruit this is that was in my curry.  It is encased in a shell. Even Desiree wouldn’t try it and she is a local!

We also had this famous unique dessert there too:

This dessert is called Cendol and is a traditional dessert made from shaved ice, coconut milk, green starched noodles with pandan flavoring and palm sugar. Other ingredients such as red beans, glutinous rice, grass jelly, creamed corn, might also be included.  I wouldn’t say this is my favourite dessert out there but it sure is different.

There is some great art work on the streets and very old churches.

Lastly we had some food at the night markets.  It was like a mini chocolate pancake and you could get different flavours and the other was quail eggs.