Malacca was our last stop in Malaysia before heading down to Singapore. We had a couple of days to go around this town that is, just like George-Town of Penang, culturally rich in so many ways. Like I've said it many times before, Malaysia is a melting pot for different religions, people and food, and you could describe Malacca the exact same way but it all comes in a much more compact package.

Chinese, European, Malay & Indian settlements make up for a typical cityscape in Malacca.

No trip to Kuala Lumpur is complete without standing and marvelling at least once at the bottom of its most famous landmark - The Petronas Towers. So what makes these two so famous, I mean they're just skyscrapers, right? In fact they used to be the world's tallest skyscrapers for six years and even now that they've lost their title of the highest building, they still dominate the KL skyline and continue reflecting the modern face of the city.

Malaysia was one of those countries that took us by surprise and instead of staying only about a week there, we could've easily spent more time traveling around this culturally rich melting pot. We had planned to have just a quick visit in Georgetown, Penang, but even that was cut short because we missed our ferry in Langkawi. Hence, our quick visit turned out to be even quicker. That was unfortunate since this city has quite a lot of interesting things to offer and we only got a glimpse of  them.  

It's often said that Penang is the food capital of Malaysia and that it has a particularly wide variety of multicultural street food. Surely this was something we didn't want to miss out on and the first thing we did after dropping off our stuff at the hotel was sampling the hawker food stalls. We found this food court that had several different stalls and this middle-aged lady was kindly serving or rather advising us since we had no idea what all these menus on the walls were about. All kinds of dishes from Malay, Indian and Chinese cuisines and barely any pictures or translations, so it was good to have someone to recommend the good stuff! Also, she took us around the stalls to show what was there to choose from...and we did end up having such an original meal trying out so many different specialities and in the meantime she kept us pretty entertained throughout the dinner! I think already back then we were hooked on the food of this country and knew we would spend a fair amount of time eating ;).