more interesting shops. this is a blacksmiths shop. there are actually two side by side. there;s the furnace, the tools, and the ready made products
this guy was sharpening a cleaver.
swords anyone?
wonder if he knows how to make a samurai sword, would be cool to hang one over the dining room.
found this shop selling ancient coins they dug out from sunken ships off the melaka harbor. deemed 'national treasures'. still, its for sale (for the right price). a Portuguese coin from 1510-ish can be bought for RM80 and a coin from the period of sultan manshor shah costs about RM200. all comes with a certificate to authenticate the item. supposedly the cert itself costs between 50-100 itself. they even sell 'crocodile' money only read of these things in history textbooks.
one cent on a note? and it costs RM10? inflation around here must be real bad.
bought this cool note for RM3.5
carried on walking and found a huge pineapple tart, something thats supposedly famous in this area, still, i didnt buy any because this one is three years old and it still has not got moldy, imagine the amount of preservatives they pump into it!
another interesting shop that sells shoes
tiny ones for women with bound feet. haha
no one these days around this area binds their feet. the shoes are just for decoration. the guy making the shoes learnt the trade from his dad who made these for real customers.
another shop selling semi precious gems
the way he handles them, you would think they were just chips of a marble. i really doubt its authenticity. its too cheap, and he always answers with dodgy lines.
found this interesting shop
tarrah!
this shop sells one thing, and one thing only; chopping boards
made from the hardwood of Temusu, which i think is a type and should be Tembusu.
all shape and sizes, guaranteed to not crack or break
then found this other shop, somewhat opposite the chopping board shop.
it sells cane stuff. everything and anything made out of cane/bamboo.
the groves on the floor for sliding the doors are made of wood! must be leftover wood from the 'temusu' shop opposite.
after breakfast, went to the main town to walk about. saw lots of pretty restored pre-war (pre-WWII) buildings, and equally many ugly ones.
the traditional method of hawking food.
wooden clogs, asian style. mainly used for the loo
some old furniture shop
ancient raincoat, made from some fiber
air well, to allow some sun in because the houses were so long, there was not enough lighting in the middle of the house thus they had to make a hole in the center so you get enough fresh air and light
normally the family will stay on the second story and the family business was run from the 1st floor. because the house was so long, here is a second air well. someone staying at the last room will take a good minute or two to walk out to the front door. and that person would not know that a fight was going on at the doorstep if he was in his back room.
wooden pram
chest of drawers. the inside is lined with some taoist ideologies.
medicine chest
pillows. yup. they didnt have any soft stuff. it doubled up as a storage area, so you can hide your million dollar bill and gold chains in there while you sleep
next day, went out to search out breakfast. got to get some parking coupons first
congee! good stuff, nice and gooey
in the distance you can see the local Melaka Eye. its abit short-sighted because you cant even see the roof of the nearby building
cool eh? wish i could do this on my house. but my dad would kill me.
at some shopping mall after dinner, we saw this mural. supposedly quite famous as my dad knows about it and insisted we walk the whole length of the mall to get there. its a fountain with relief metal works along the sides depicting scenes from the history of malaysia
at newton food center, i had sotong balls (octopus) and it has this flakes of stuff that seemed to be alive.
