Today we bidded adieu to our ill-fated stay in Singapore and turned our sights to Melaka, Malaysia. Melaka occupies a waterway location on the west coast that made it desirable for the Dutch, Portuguese, English and Japanese. Chinese and Indian men came to this area and married the Malay women. Their children identified themselves as “Straits Chinese” or “Straits Indian” in reference to the strait of Melaka.
We boarded a bus in Singapore for the 4 1/2 hour ride. After stopping for lunch we took a taxi to our guest house, which was run by a Malay man and his British wife. This meant that we were able to get a proper cup of tea.
We walked about a bit in the evening and quickly discovered that this was the most humid spot so far on our trip. For dinner we walked across the river and into Little India to a restaurant called Capital Satay. This restaurant served satay celup, satay sticks loaded with raw meat and veg that you cook by plunging the sticks into boiling satay sauce. We could not identify all of the things that we ate tonight and are happy to keep it that way. Charlotte has continued to be the star of the show and was doted on by all of the servers who came from a local orphanage.
