{"id":6,"date":"2008-01-23T00:58:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tee-too.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-02-03T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T06:27:27","slug":"charm-of-melaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tee-too.com\/blog\/charm-of-melaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Charm of Melaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I got an opportunity to make the trip to Melaka for a wedding. How fruitful was it that made me discover the quaint and heritagely rich town of Melaka. It&#8217;s just simple charm that makes it so special. Moreover, it&#8217;s much much cleaner than Penang. Staying at Baba House (a heritage building turned homestay), it is a stone&#8217;s throw from Jonker Walk, the famous shopping street that sells curious goods and peppered with wonderful restaurents and stalls (have to try the &#8220;ondek-ondek&#8221; and anything related to &#8220;gula melaka&#8221;). If u do drop by Melaka, u must stay at these homestays. Lucky too when for my visit, it was near Chinese New Year, so Jonker Walk was lighted with LOTS of little red lamps. so nice. <em>CLICK on picture below for more pictures.\u00a0 ::: UPDATED WITH MORE PICTURES on Feb 03, 2008 ::: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.tee-too.com\/pics\/Melaka\/index.html','Melaka','width=700,height=600')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upload.pbase.com\/teetoo\/image\/91994338\/medium.jpg?w=780\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I got an opportunity to make the trip to Melaka for a wedding. How fruitful was it that made me discover the quaint and heritagely rich town of Melaka. It&#8217;s just simple charm that makes it so special. Moreover, it&#8217;s much much cleaner than Penang. Staying at Baba House (a heritage building turned homestay), &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0No-6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39,"url":"https:\/\/tee-too.com\/blog\/penang-melaka-on-world-heritage-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":6,"position":0},"title":"Penang &#038; Melaka as World Heritage Sites. wahoo!","author":"Teetoo","date":"July 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Wah. Finally my little island got title after years of lobbying for it to be included. CONGRATULATIONS. Tho we got it under a new governance, kudos should also be given to the previous leaders for their efforts. 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Since it's a bit \"looser\" these days - must make a point to post a blog a week at least. OK! enugh kap-siaoing (ranting). 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