Melaka Weekend — Sand Dunes

If you’re the adventurous sort, and you like to go to places that are not just off-road, but also off-map, then you have to check out the Melaka Sand Dunes. It’s not a natural feature. The internet tells us that it was part of a land reclamation project that was never completed. Maybe the construction […]

Melaka Weekend — Nyonya & Baba Breakfasts

NYONYA DELIGHTS Our first breakfast at Melaka was at Nyonya Delight Homestyle Cooked Food. It is a home-based business, where the outside of the house, and the porch, are used to serve nyonya food to customers. Tourists to Melaka, especially if they drive, always come here to eat. For breakfast, we ordered nasi lemak, mee […]

Melaka Weekend — Melaka Town

Following our visit to Wooden Box cafe at Batu Pahat, we continued our drive up north. We passed by Muar but didn’t stop as we had already spent a lot of time at Segenting earlier in the day and were behind schedule by about 2 hours. Not that our schedule was particularly important; it was […]

Melaka Weekend — Cafe Hopping

BATU PAHAT This is the first time we’ve been to Batu Pahat since our December 2019 trip. What’s new is that a few cafes have sprung up. We first visit Niqiu Cafe, which started in 2021. As it was a hot day, and the air-con here wasn’t strong, and also because the staff told us […]

Melaka Weekend — Segengting

Most people, when they go to Batu Pahat, they go only to Batu Pahat town. Actually, when most people travel, they go only to the places that other people recommend them, places that most other people go to. When we travel, we like to go to new places, see things we have never seen before. […]

Melaka Weekend — The Beginning

It’s been almost 3 years since we’ve written anything in this blog, 3 years since we’ve travelled out of Singapore, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With international borders opening up again, we decided to restart our travel plans and share them here. Recently we drove up to Melaka with a couple of friends — Teck […]

Malaysia Bus Trip – Sidequests

We had a couple of sidequests for this bus trip to Malaysia. ONE: Buy underwear This is especially significant for Baby Tilapia, considering that he hardly buys things. He has tried to reuse other people’s discarded underwear before. Some people find that disgusting, but the truth is, once you wash it thoroughly and soak it […]

Malaysia Bus Trip – Batu Pahat

We arrived by bus from Pontian at a roadside. Batu Pahat has a bus station, but apparently there’s no service between Pontian and Batu Pahat. We had to take a Mayang Sari service that goes to Muar and drop us off as it passed through Batu Pahat. Unfortunately that also means there’s no direct way […]

Malaysia Bus Trip – Pontian

There are at least 2 ways to Pontian by bus from Singapore. The first way is to cross the Woodlands Causeway by any number of buses. We found that the best way is to take SBS Transit 170X from Kranji MRT to Larkin, followed by Maju 96 (or one other bus we can’t remember now) […]

Malaysia Bus Trip – Gelang Patah

We try to travel overseas once a month if possible. We don’t always get to borrow a car, but travelling by bus is an option too. For most people, travelling by bus is tiring and time consuming. But one thing about travelling by bus is that it’s cheap. It’s best done by those who have […]