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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

street hawkers of melaka

the original

manually

operated

'ice-ball'
machine.

the maltose candy hawker along jonkers st

barbecued baby cuttlefish

steamed groundnuts on a tricycle

6 comments:

Lam Chun See said...: I have photos of an even older machine here.

Maybe you can throw some light on the topic of discussion about why soft drinks in our time were call "holland water" (Hollan sui); June 16, 2008 at 1:03 PM
yg said...: chun see,
i am still trying to find out from my 'resources' if soft drinks were indeed called 'hollan sui'.; June 19, 2008 at 6:19 PM
yg said...: chun see, i checked with one of my 'resources' and he confirmed that it was called 'hollan sui' but could only speculate that the first lot of aerated drinks might have come from holland. according to him, the bottles were not secured with a cap, instead there was a marble that floated to the top.
will try and check with my other resource, my 80-year friend.; June 24, 2008 at 7:40 AM
yg said...: chun see, met up with my 80-year old friend during my morning walk. he also could not provide me the answer on why the cantonese called it 'holland sui'. according to him the hokkiens called it 'pock chui' because of the popping sound when it was opened.; July 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Anonymous said...: yg
i plan to visit malacca - any suggestion for hotel (not expensive) and within reach of everything?

Let's say I am thinking of two options for accommodation - simple no frills and 4-star hotel; August 3, 2008 at 6:11 PM
yg said...: peter, there are two hotels i have stayed before. they are within the town itself.

one is the accordian hotel on jalan bendahara. it is a small 50-room budget hotel.

the other is emperor hotel on jalan munshi abdullah, just round the corner from accordian. emperor has more rooms.

emperor's off-peak rate is around rm$101 and accordian's is also about the same.; August 3, 2008 at 8:38 PM

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