Living Like a Local in Melaka 🇲🇾 | Malacca, Malaysia Vlog 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ม.ค. 2023
- Ah Melaka, one of the most beautiful tourist destinations in Malaysia... Home to a Portuguese Fortress, Dutch Buildings and plenty of Chinese and Malaysian history.
This isn't our first time in Melaka, so we take a step away from Jonker Walk into some of the locals recommendations. Join us and you'll get a slightly different side of Melaka, from local favourites such as Putu Piring to chinese medicines and saloons that have been open for over 100 years, all seasoned with some friendly Melakan aunties.
This is the local side of Melaka!
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We are Pat & Giulia, a couple from 🇬🇧 and 🇮🇹 living in London.
We decided to go travelling and ended up living getting stuck in Malaysia during 2020 which spurred the creation of this channel, we're now back on the road after a lengthy hiatus!
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This bar experience is priceless, esp. being served by this wonderful owner and the best part is Malaysian can converse in English with international tourist.
It’s true! Great bar, we spent hours in there with them, I wish I had filmed more! 👍🏻
I find myself liking your video's even before I watch them, because I know I will. My wife's best friend who now lives in England is from Ipoh. I love the oldy world Architecture. Glad you managed to have a Tiger to wash down the rice wines. You came out of the 100 YO bar with a healthy glow. There is a lot to be said for alternate medicine, I suffered with Eczema for years tried all the usual medicines but the thing that finally fixed it was aroma therapy, I had a course which lasted 2 months essential oils drooped in a bath. I havent had Eczena for over 25 years now.
Thats pretty incredible, we naturally have our reservations but hearing that is interesting. We’ve never had eczema but know from friends it can be a pain. I have a few myself against the MSM but it’s not Chinese medicine 🤣 - don’t use normal toothpaste, it gives you ulcers (due to the SLS content that is actually corrosive to skin and breaks down your gums).
That was actually thanks to the locals we were with, great shout.
Huge huge thanks and super kind for the donation, in the classic British fashion, when we receive something like this we say “you really shouldn’t have!.
Glad you’re into them, got a couple of interesting stories coming up so hopefully good stuff to follow. 🙏🏻
Ipoh is absolutely grand and still a favourite of ours, the people are just incredibly friendly there so I’m not surprised!
Glad you're peeling some layers of my hometown!
Nice video keep it up!. 🇲🇾
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best melaka
Ohhh looks like you went to the kuih badak spot! We love it
Food and Footprints ... I can hear d kuih badak calling your name Greg ...
Absolutely nice one
Hi... welcome to melaka..
Appreciate your effort in speaking malay with the locals... Keep it up
Nice place
At 3:00 the Yu Tiow ( u called it deep fried roll bread ).....we locals will get creative eating it.....next time u gotta try it.....1 Dip it into hot local coffee then eat it 2 dip it in porridge 3 have it with some Kaya ( local jam ) 4 Sweet condensed Milk.......etc I bet it would go very well too wt Gula Melaka
Nice old school bar 🍻 cheers 🥂 mate 😁u so cHilL slowly roaming enjoying with locals 👍
Haha!! You think? I’ll take that! 😂
Great video of your trip to Melaka! What a cool bar, and getting to spend time with some locals!
I like this episode so much!!
Great video about Melaka,you guys seem enjoying Melaka.I love Pandan bread too.Hope all is well.
Hey nice meet to you and welcome to melaka hope you can wait Friday Saturday and Sunday jonker walk night market try any food open 6.00 pm have anyjoin to travel and safety first thanks you me form melaka people👍💪
Big ups Melaka! Great city! 🙏🏻🫡
Ahhh... _putu piring_ is one of my favorites! 😋👏👍 It's one of the many delicious traditional malay _kuih_ and best eaten fresh and hot.
But we also need to watch on 3 things: 1)the core ingredient used is _gula melaka_ which is creamy and more tasty, and not brown sugar, 2)the coconut flesh used is young, and grated, not from an old coconut, and not from using a blender, 3)the _putu_ is done, ie. completely steamed, else the rice flour feels still raw and not nice at all.
A trick I personally do to get even more oomph! from a steaming _putu piring_ is to gently grind/press the grated coconut with a finger against its banana leaf backing, just to get a tiny bit of the coconut milk oozing out already and only then i eat the _putu,_ then it'll taste very yummy from the combined creaminess of the juicy coconut and the sweet _gula melaka_ 😋😋😋😋😋
This is the best putu piring explanation ever
the curry puff with bean sprouts, we call it Etok Etok Sayur. but rarely selling outside. normally we only cook for our family 🤭
I think it s epok epok.lol
@@iamurmakteh yes epok2 typo 🤣
Etok2 is a kind of river clam
epok2
This conversation! 🤣 great epok epok regardless! 🙏🏻
Welcome to Malaysia
Terima kasih 🙏🏻
Cool video
Thanks for sharing this wonderful video n for showing your explorations in Melaka.
Thanks Yasin! 🙏🏻
@@VeggiesOnTour 😁
chakoi 3:00 amazing! msian churros is how u can think of it
The bar is a historical jewel. I met an Indonesian tour company owner there and we exchanged contact. Will definitely go again.
You’re always the man in the know, are you sure you’re not a secret agent Vincent? 007? 😂
I really miss Melaka. I love the chendol and walking around jonker street. You guys should go to kelantan or Terengganu. I love the hospitality, nice people, nice food, great beaches just like my travel vlog.
@@VeggiesOnTour 😎shhh....
We’re planning to! Very curious to visit
What a lovely trip,I am following you two, take care guys
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We have a lot of these in Sabah....the rice wine also a traditional drinks of the Kadazan Dusun Murut n Iban.....searh Tumpung and Montoku
🕶️ cool 🔥
You trying to get drunk early in the morning? Wicked!!! I reckon you really enjoy the time in the old liquor bar....... Hmm.... Let me see, delicious vegetarian meals, old tradisional businesses, old heritage buliding, and couple of booze..... Hmm....
Anyway, the missus is from Malacca so the next trip back, I might check out this place .... Take care on the road.... Till then....Cheers!!
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Cheers...
…thanks I guess? 🤣
2:02 like this lah.....I'm dead 😂😂
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Awak seorang Yang baik
That bar deserves a video on its own guys.. lmao! Can't wait to see where you 2 go next
Ipoh to meet another famous local 😂👍🏻
There are many chinese vegetarian restaurant in Malaysia, hope you guys enjoy .
Putu Piring at Bukit Beruang is de best n price RM 0.50 /pcs
Pat & Giulia ... Since Malaysia has been like your 2nd Home, u two are definitely living like a local ... At some point u two are more locals than d locals coz u two have been to some of d local places that we locals haven't been to yet ... And d best part, i chuckled when in d video Pat was speaking d local Malay language to d locals while d locals spoke to them in English ... Normally in some countries d foreigners spoke in English and some of d locals there would replied them in their local languages but it is d other way round in Malaysia here ... Pat spoke to d locals in d Malay language and d locals spoke to Pat & Giulia in English ... Even in that language part, Pat is already like a local coz he spoke our local Malay language to d locals and ironically d locals instead replied him in English ... I can't help myself but to chuckle when i watched this video ... 😄
🤣🤣🤣 it’s true!
Amazing to see vegetarians having a great time here. Plenty of ethnic Chinese Indian food and some fusion type vegetable dishes. There is even teh ubat kinda a bit expensive to flush out belly fats!
So much good stuff!
Melaka is my hometown 😍 now I'm working at kl . Really miss my family at Malacca 😢
Melaka is great but the people are even better! Hope you’re able to return home soon! 🙏🏻
I ❤ Melaka, Now, i live in melaka for a while...
sayuran saje , tak tambah apa2
amazing vocab for negotiating vegan life in msia!
Welcome to Malacca bro...I'm stay in Malacca bro...👍
Big ups Malacca, great city! 👍🏻
The kueh finish fast because 1 customer can buy a lot for breakfast or snacks. So by half day, the owner can close the shop and rest.
Niiice, makes a lot of sense
Try dipping the youtiao in black coffee. Youtiao also goes well with porridge.
Yes agree. It is yummy when you dip into coffee. 😋
in kuala kangsar there is pau sultan. in the old days there were flown to england.
Incred! Had no idea!
Lol that ‘seperuh’ at the start was so thick…. Didn’t understand it until you said half 😂
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The herbal jelly is not vegetarian it is made of turtle shell
thank you my friends for coming to my home country next time if you come again ill bring some others interesting place in MELAKA tq so much love u all
That would be great 🙏🏻🇲🇾
Try visit kota kinabalu sabah
Herbal jelly should be kwai lin gou
Hi guys, the sweet herb that you tried is licorice root. Besides the sweetening effect, it is also used in herbal combinations as a tempering ingredient. Kind of like smoothening out the effects of each herb in the prescription.
FYI, Chinese herbal medicine is mostly plant-based & those exotic animal-based ingredients often comes with a princely price tag. So fear not & go tried them. Also in China, they have lots of folks who are practicing vegetarians or have religious restrictions on what they can consume, so in general, almost all herb medicines are made for such people in mind.
FYI, the black Jelly could be the more common Herbal Grass Jelly. There is another similar looking one which is made from turtle shell (Gui Ling Kao). This one taste bitter & often goes together with honey. Prices will let you know the difference. 😜✌
Woiii, this is a great explanation. Good to know! Big ups!
Moonshine eh
Wicked bar
Very!!
I love Malacca,night market,jongker street, boat,chendol etc.
It’s great, what a city! 😂👍🏻
@@VeggiesOnTour Malacca is not a city, it's a town😆
licorice root - Gan Cao
That makes a lot of sense, it’s very sweet
Yu tiaw should not be eaten plainly. It must be dipped into a cup of hot coffee first or whatever hot drinks that you prefer. Just a word of advice, never carry your handbag next to the road anywhere you walk. Place your handbag on the shoulder which is not next to the road. Just beware of snatch-thieves. Overall, Malaysia is a safe place to visit. Welcome to Malaysia.
Ahh that makes so much sense. Tbh it was quite good even on its own, must be amazing dipped in coffee! Thanks for the tip 🙏🏻 we try to be as careful as possible with bags although Malaysia has always felt safe to us - I usually keep everything valuable in the bag strapped to my chest and only use the should bag for minor things we like to carry
the difference between straits chinese and non-straits chinese.
straits chinese landed in malaysia before the british set foot in malaysia in 1824.
they absorbed lots of orang asli and malay culture.
there are straits chinese of kelantan, of pahang and terengganu (but the pahang straits chinese all moved to terengganu since terengganu and pahang are historically one), of melaka and singapore (meaning johor), and of penang (meaning kedah).
there are also straits chinese of sarawak, labuan and sabah (meaning brunei).
non-straits chinese came to malaysia after the british and they are mostly good at speaking their mother dialects such as cantonese, hokkien, hakka and shanghainese as well as the national language of china which is mandarin or beijing chinese.
Normally chinese here in my area eat the youtiao with something else, like with kaya, condensed milk or even soak it in coffee...so delicious. I don't like eat it with nothing
😂 it was good, but that makes a lot of sense
Where is the epok2 shop? The curry puff.
Kuih badak warisan 🙏🏻🇲🇾
@@VeggiesOnTour thank you.
53% wahahaha
Did not know rice wine has flavours
Yes! They’re super Smokey flavours but the coffee was best imo!
@@VeggiesOnTour I drank coffee liqour before kahlua
Byr
My former colleague strongly recommended Melaka visit rather than KL, which I may consider. Enjoy your trip guys.
BTW, if you guys still in Malaysia, Chinese New Year will fall on 22nd January, so watch out for the probable open house invitation by our local guys.
It’s a good one and big ups for the suggestion, we’ve got something in mind! 😂
@@VeggiesOnTour Very good. Please share this with us on your next videos. We love to hear from you. Happy Spring Festival!!
sorry to tell you that Malaysia is not that vegan friendly to visit.. you'll have to do some advanced research before visiting.. hope you'll understand
Manyiak cilakak itu Melayu beli lu kedai punya samsu ka haiyaa
Itu Melayu kah Yg minum tuak tu?
Sabahan Sia kayak iban kadazan tak Tau lah Muka sebiji Malai u 🤭satu Malaysia 😁
Dia orang Sabah lah, non Muslim.
@@aNt1P414tAO bukan Jenis Malai U mushlim kat IC 🤭jangan Salah assume 😁
@@Redmi-xu1yoSy org Sabah, sy dgr slang BM dia, ketara org Sabah lah. Benda2 mcm ni sebenarnya x perlu mau jadi issue pun. Org Mlyu pun bukan satu rupa saja, tp byk mix. Org Sabah Sarawak lagi lah, rupa paras sangat byk mix sudah.
@@aNt1P414tAO Yeah 👍 minang Malay jawanese Malay acheh Malay semua ada jangan tersentap sudah🤭aku cina sini cHilL santai aja 😁
Long time no post new video bro
This bar experience is priceless, esp. being served by this wonderful owner and the best part is Malaysian can converse in English with international tourist.