Melacca The Historic State

Present-day Melaka reflects its tumultuous history - a multi-racial population of Malays, Indians, and Chinese call this historic city home. Most notably, Peranakan and Portuguese communities still thrive in Melaka, a reminder of the state's long experience with trading and colonization.

Melaka's founder, the ex-pirate Prince Parameswara, was said to be a descendant of Alexander the Great, but it's more likely that he was a Hindu political refugee from Sumatra.

According to legend, the Prince was resting one day under an Indian gooseberry tree (also known as a melaka). As he watched one of his hunting dogs trying to bring down a mouse deer, it occurred to him that the deer shared a similar plight to his own: alone, exiled in a foreign land and surrounded by enemies. The mouse deer then achieved the improbable and fought off the dog.

Parameswara decided that the place where he was sitting was a propitious one for the disadvantaged to triumph, so decided to build a house on the spot.

Malacca did indeed turn out to be a favorable place to found a town, due to its sheltered harbor, its abundant water supply and its prime location relative to the regional trade and monsoon wind patterns.

5/20/2013

Dinner at Melacca Parade! :)

We went to the Melaka Parade to grab some food and have our dinner. Melaka Parade is known as a shopping mall and you can get whatever u want there, They have many kinds of shops, restaurants, fast food stalls and many more. So we deided to have Nando's as our first day dinner in Melacca! It was almost 9:00 P.M. when we were about to have dinner and was extremely hungry!  

 Melaka Parade is at Melaka Town (Mahkota Parade 1 Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Malacca) You can easily find this shopping mall buy taking a cab from your hotel and it will cost less then RM 20.

 
So yeah these are my classmate and we decided to have dinner together. What makes it more special to me is that this is my first time eating outside of campus with them. 
I had a great time with all of them :)


This is how it looks like Nando's in Melaka Parade. The restaurant is big and comfortable for us and it was a good dinner for all of us :D
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