{"id":650,"date":"2023-12-24T08:59:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T08:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/?p=650"},"modified":"2024-06-23T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T08:40:04","slug":"sat-23rd-dec-malacca-malaysia-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Sat 23rd Dec &#8211; Malacca (Malaysia) -&gt; Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My final day without Declan in South East Asia. Most of today is a travel day, taking the public coach from Malacca and through the palm tree populated nation of Malaysia, travelling south towards the Singapore border. It&#8217;s slightly stressful because if you&#8217;re delayed getting through Singapore immigration then the bus leaves without you and you have to make your own way into the city. Transit is smooth for me and I arrive around 3pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sales girl my age who works for Barclays Singapore, who I deal with a fair bit at work, invites me to a hawker market near her place for dinner. Quite nice to meet in person on a social basis. She then takes me to a cocktail bar where she is on first name basis with the owners and they mix her a custom Pandan cocktail. I am impressed with this cosmopolitan lady but cannot bring myself to order a second $35 cocktail. We spend about four hours together and I return to my hotel eager because Declan is only six hours away, covering some distance over South Australia at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072319425726540476358728616.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072319425726540476358728616.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072319425726540476358728616-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072319425726540476358728616-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072319425726540476358728616-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Am sad to be leaving behind breakfast traditions of Thailand and Malaysia. Outdoor food carts and kopitams have made for tasty, shady respites from the day. Singapore doesn&#8217;t have a food cart scene &#8211; the cheaper food is in hawker food courts. There&#8217;s something a bit less genial about the hawker food courts. The permanency of the stalls (they are not wheeled from place to place each day) and their subsequent enclosed nature lead to less chit chat between vendors. The novella I am reading, the Cove, is my first Cynan Jones. It&#8217;s compelling and sparse, centred around a man struck by lightning on a kayak who was out in a bay with the purpose of spreading his father&#8217;s ashes. It is less than 100 pages and holds throughout, with a tenseness comparable to Cormac McCarthy. I got this from Sapphos in Glebe sometime earlier this year, knowing nothing about it other than it was small. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072328818412573882000440568.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072328818412573882000440568.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072328818412573882000440568-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072328818412573882000440568-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072328818412573882000440568-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072328818412573882000440568-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Final glimpse of Malacca, and one of the last of Malaysia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072337831463827464323318142.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072337831463827464323318142.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072337831463827464323318142-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072337831463827464323318142-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wp-17034072337831463827464323318142-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Barclay&#8217;s sales girl orders for us and gets all her favourites. There&#8217;s chicken satay, fried oyster omelet, fried hokkien seafood noodles and carrot cake (this version actually made of radish not carrot). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-holiday","category-summer-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}