we are in the beautiful city of malacca which is in the south western part of malaysia
this unesco world heritage site it's known for its unique history and colorful buildings but
the reason we're here today is for the cendol which is a dessert that has been recommended to
us countless times on our first day in kl we did have cendol but it was with durian so the flavor
was completely overpowered and we didn't mix it properly so it was all wrong and today is our
redemption but before that we have to start with a classic breakfast dish and some local coffee
good morning from melaka we are just about
five minutes away from the city centre in a really local breakfast place called
AH KOON kopitiiam so a kopitiam place as you guys have let us know is kind of a classic
coffee place that also seems to have food we were searching far and wide for a local style coffee
and we just couldn't find it but we were looking in the wrong place so now we're in the right place
we've got two types of local coffee we've got a white coffee which is this one nice and hot
it smells good i'll try them a second and we've got what's just called a kopi
which is this beautiful thing so it looked like black coffee when i first saw it but there's
actually a nice thick layer of condensed milk just at the bottom so that suggests it might
be a little bit similar to what we were having which was our favorite coffee in vietnam which
was a bac xiu what we've also got is two roti cenai's now i didn't quite realize that this
was a breakfast food until recently when you guys let us know that it's a breakfast food because
we've been having it with our dinners anyway now we're here at the correct time at breakfast time
this place seems so popular this people sat all inside people sat all outside on the seats it was
actually quite lucky that we got a seat because there's a lot of people walking past that weren't
able to get any so these roti canais are made inside they sell a wide variety of different rotis
some even with sardine in them we went for the original which is just roti canai and they make
them fresh inside so they've got a huge tub with a small dough inside they plop it on the table
they flatten it out they fling it in the air fling it in the air a few times they flatten
it they flatten it and flatten it until it's a huge pancake then they roll it in some butter put
it on the pan and they're just cooking loads of them at the same time it's worth mentioning that
alongside the various types of roti i don't know if it's a canai thing if that means original
or if that means that it comes with this sauce because a lot of the other ones don't seem to come
with this sort of light curry i would call it please correct me if i'm wrong but it is so nice
to dip the roti inside and it just makes it like a little bit spicy a little bit more foody but
before we tuck into our actual breakfast food we obviously have to try the coffee i am gonna go for
a nice white coffee which apparently is a classic malaysian style type of coffee
oh that's so sweet
oh that's really nice yeah yeah you'll like this this is good i wanna try this one yeah me too
smells strong
strong tasting it's sweet it's not as nice as a bac xiu in vietnam but it's i wonder what
the difference is between a kopi and a white coffee this one must have a little bit more milk
this is sweeter than this and we love sweet coffee or sweet things in general and i think this for me
is nicer than this as you can see by the color um but this tastes i'm like comparing coffees here
i'll take this one no just give that one a go
oh yeah oh yeah this one actually taste of coffee whereas this one tastes a sweet creamy goodness
with a hint of coffee which is i think what dylan and i actually like strong coffee but with a lot
of sweet creamy goodness around it so this is we'll share this one
okay let's try this roti which we have to eat with our right hands
even though adriana's left-handed they've given us cutlery so i don't know if that's because we look
like we don't know what to do or because that's just the thing that they do with everyone
surely this is not how would you dip it inside how do you tear it there's probably a knack to it
you wash your hands this morning? Of course
i'm trying to cover my there we go so we got the roti and then
oh
it's very good and this one has like a red sauce got spice in the middle that makes it quite spicy
i like spices i'm feeling like my throat that's really nice this is good and we'll put the prices
on the screen so you don't actually know what the prices are yet so we'll put them down below
we've just popped up to the place that we've been staying for the past few days this place
is called the nest house it's officially a home stay but it feels a lot more like a hostel or
a hotel partially because it's so small and kind of boutiquey but also because there's a bit of a
common space downstairs that has free food free drinks free coffee so you already know we love
this place the room that we've booked is a twin room and it's 30 pounds a night this is a little
bit more costly than we were actually expecting i don't know if melaka is a little bit more
costly or if it's because we're actually here on a national holiday which explains why a lot of the
places were booked up but anyway this place comes with obviously two beds a bathroom wi-fi large tv
only has a few channels so we actually not really made use of it yet but it's always nice to have
but the real thing that we really really wanted is a desk and this one oh it's large enough for
two i can sit Dylan can sit usually there's another laptop here so like i don't just sit
and look at the window but how nice is that ah love it another thing that's really nice about
this place and gives it more of a hostel vibe is the fact that there's a rooftop with some seating
it gets really hot during the day obviously but in the evenings it's really nice to sit up there
and enjoy the view this place has been perfect for the last few days and for our stay here in malacca
and even though it is two single beds we've obviously squished them together made one big
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or click the link in description box below now let's head to the historic city center
we are now in the city center of melaka which is the dutch square as you can see
right behind me and please too much all around are these really cool looking red buildings that
are from the era when the dutch colonized this city this city was founded all the way back in
1402 after which the portuguese british and dutch took over over the course of 500 years
but obviously not at the same time last time we were in a world unesco heritage site such as this
one we were back in vietnam we went to the one in hoi an which was absolutely beautiful ancient town
as well as ha long bay where we had a one night river cruise which was uh so beautiful
and memorable you can see in pretty much most of the buildings at least here in the town center
that due to the colonization the names and the structures of the buildings are quite
recognizable as very european for example the city hall is literally called stat house
which in dutch means city hall obviously it's spelled a little bit differently so i don't
know if that's old dutch or if it's just been sort of altered a little bit for the malaysian
language here but it's quite interesting and this building behind me here
is called the christ church malacca and it looks from the text on the front that was built in 1753
and it's obviously in the english language that's probably when the british people came
over but now it's time to head to the place that's selling this old famous cendol yeah
i am hungry actually
we're now on jonker street which is a street just a few steps away from that dutch
town centre which it feels like a little chinatown here there's loads of little restaurants cafes
extremely busy but people have told us in the comments that there is a night market here on
the weekends but unfortunately it's not the weekend and we are leaving tomorrow so we're
going to miss that night market but it's a shame because it looks like this place will be popping
at night because it's actually really busy in the daytime which is quite surprising actually because
when we were in the unesco world heritage sites in hoi an it was completely quiet in the day time
because it is so hot it's probably about 35 degrees right now and we're absolutely loving it
but many people don't so we are walking just towards our cendol place now which is
up to the end of the street and turn right it's really hot i really need some cendol
so the cendol place that we want to go to is right here behind me but to get there we had to walk
through makan avenue which seems to be a bit of a food court here in malacca it is in the kampung hulu area
if that means anything to anyone but it is really lovely located i've got the literally
the water right here behind me there's a boat just coming now there's some music playing
it's really nice let's get some cendol let's get some cendol
Can i just have one cendol regular please? Having here? 6 Ringgit and 90 cents
right outside of cendol kampung hulu which seems to be a very popular place it's got reviews coming
out of everywhere and there's a lot of people here huge queue and basically people eating cendol
everywhere it's very very very very hot today as you can tell by the ice cream ball that's
very much already melted now i know this is not necessarily something that original cendol has
ice cream but it does normally have coconut milk so i guess this is their take on that now
last time we had cendol you guys gave us quite an earful about the fact that we're very much
supposed to mix it we didn't get any durian this time and i'm very much gonna mix it right now
oh wow look at that is that shaved ice yeah it looks like christmas wow
that actually looks so nice
okay i think at least this section is mixed well enough
for us to try cendol which we're now pronouncing properly properly for the first time
oh how nice is it
it's so cold it is so tasty wow
i think is that could that be coconut ice no
it's so light refreshing coconutty sweet obviously from the palm sugar so we've
got palm sugar in there we've got coconut ice cream we actually have kidney beans in
this one which i don't think normally is the case but it's a nice addition and these little
wormy looking things so how would you compare this to the cendol we had with durian
well you're asking someone that evidently doesn't really like durian
so this one is much much much much much better
not because the other one wasn't nice it's just i didn't love the durian but this is so nice
because it's such a like mild taste having durian on there will just completely take away from that
oh you'll like this i guess mine comes pre-mixed thank you
whoa tastes like caramelly
okay now i know why you told us to try without durian
oops i'm making a mess these tiny spoons aren't that great
yeah this is so much better it's night and day durian that's just too overpowering
i'd give this a good nine and a half out of ten but i would 100% buy this again it's so
so good tomorrow we're actually heading to penang and we've got loads of fun videos planned there
but if you liked this video we think you might like the video that's on the screen
right now where we went and had what is arguably the most famous burger in malaysia