A homemade sundae, Cendol and Chicken Rice Ball

Small talks:

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Come to my place now and your nostril will be 'punched' with wonderful smells of food and fruits! Not that we have a lot of food and fruits but I think fruits will last us for like a month.

Last week, my grandparents brought some fruits for us, 8 pandan flavors coconuts, 2 pamelos, 10 starfruits, 2 papayas, 3 combs of bananas and a box of strawberry! So, what do you think? To top it up, we have a watermelon in our fridge which I bought in Tesco weighing 8kg and 2 kilos of guava! We can't finish the fruits and the strawberries are too sweet sour to eat it just as it is. So, I decided to make some sundae. Oh with three tubs of ice-cream, there are lots of sundae to go around! Three scopes of ice-creams and top it with strawberries and bananas... ah! A bliss to have in this unkind hot weather!Sundae apart, I have been making trips to Melaka more than before. I went on Monday and then on Wednesday, this time to confirm the venue for leader's retreat! And a trip to Melaka is incomplete without Chicken Rice and Cendol! This time round, we went to Melaka Raya to try the Heng Hainanese Chicken Rice Ball. This is the first time I ate in this shop.
The menu is nothing to shout about and the chicken rice is not so impressive but the helping is good. There were 5 of us who had skipped our breakfast and by lunch, we were hungry. Not to mention that we parked our van so far away, we had to walk so far, we could just shove a cow chicken in! We tried the steam chicken and roasted chicken. Apart from the normal chicken rice, we ordered the rice balls!!

Story has it that the rice ball was created when the koolies had to eat when working at the port during the 1900's. Thus, they couldn't stop to take lunch, so rice were packed in ball and they ate while loading and unloading the ships' cargo. The size of the rice ball now is just about 1/5 of the size then! Isaac and his mum met us at the shop to chat with us. They are from Melaka and she told us the story of the chicken rice ball. Full as we were, we were not going to leave Melaka without having a bowl of cendol. So, we made our way to Jonker Street. Along the way, we had to make a detour because one of the road was closed for filming. We reached the famous A1 Cendol shop 15 minutes later.

This shop is famous for its cendol (shaved ice with coconut milk) with gula melaka (brown sugar made from coconut)! We ordered 5 bowls and this is definately good especially in the unforgiving, scorching sun in Melaka town!

The shop has the old rustic feel to it. As we entered, old china porcelins and currencies were on display. Some Melaka food could be found on the shelf too. We made our way to the back of the shophouse to look for a sit.

The price of the cendol are not too expensive but depends on what you order, the prices differ.

A bowl of durian ice kacang will set you back RM4 but a normal ice kacang (shaved ice) or cendol will only cost RM1.70.

This place is self-service but I enjoyed standing there waiting and seeing how they prepared it. Once you have tried this cendol, you will not like others. The shaved ice is small and smooth and the taste of gula melaka is so good. It's thick and flavored. The amount of coconut milk is good too.

And, to sit in the old courtyard to taste it with 60's musics playing behind, this is a good place to go to. I know I will definately come back for more and recommend people to come here next time.