Reflection on Malacca

Recommendation on improvement 

I'm typical Malaccian which had experience all the famous and "unfamous" destination in Malacca throughout these year. There is a lot of potential improvement needed in Malacca in order to attract more tourist Arrival. 

- Public Transport

Malacca does not provide any monorial or train service. The only public transport in Malacca is public bus which are still not well develop in term of the route and schedule. The public bus will not reach to all the tourist destination, it will only stop at one stop nearby and the tourist will need to find their own way to reach the final destination. 

One of the most widely use transportation by the foreign tourist is trishaw where it can bring you to have a tour at the famous destination in Malacca. As the high demanded of trishaw, it make the cost for trishaw expensive and the driver may event markup for the foreign tourist. 

- Traffic Jam 

The first weakness lead this point as the public transport are not well develop, most of the tourist prefer to drive in Malacca. As more tourist arrival during public holiday and weekend, most of the are driving from other state it causing the serious traffic jam in Malacca town. 

- Solutions 

From my personal opinion, the Malacca state government should improve their transportation service by adding more route on public bus. 

Also, some of the road in Malacca are not well develop and it take forever to repair the road. This may be one of the main issue that causing the traffic jam, try to increase the speed of repairing the road and avoiding to repair during peak hour. 

The Hidden Food in Malacca 

Tourist from others state tend to complain that our food are expensive at the Malacca city, why not you find a tour guide from Malacca (like me) to bring you to experience a different kind of Malacca. There are still a lot of hidden destination or restaurant in Malacca that provide cheap and nice food. 

Alai Ikan Bakar 

Instead of Portuguese Square, Alai Ikan Bakar provide variety types of fresh sea food that cooked in different way, the most important is it was cheap! We went there in group of 8 people which ordered up to 5 types of seafood and 10 types of cook(siakap x2, sotong x2, stingray x2, prawn x2) with countless of Nasi Lemak and water only cost us less than RM250.  
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Batu Berendam coconut shake 

Instead of the famous Klebang coconut shake, you can also try the Batu Berendam coconut shake that located at Batu Berendam near to Malacca Airport. You will be able to enjoy and cool and chill coconut drink or coconut shake at the hot weather with shorter queue compare with Klebang coconut shake. 
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Malim 阿妹 Satay Celup  

(Amei Satay Celup) 

Instead of long queuing satay celup at downtown of Malacca. Why not try this satay celup that located at Malim Jaya which take 15 minutes drive from Malacca town. They provide variety types of choices on satay celup as well with a cheaper price. 

My personal reflection on Malacca 

I still love Malacca so much and proud to be a Malaccian, the food are nice the places are beautiful and the people are friendly. 

To travel to Malacca is definitely a good experience no matter you come with backpack or travel here. There are a lot of nice homestay or accomdation in Malacca that with affortable price. The transportation issue will never stop you to travel to Malacca as the taxi or grabcar are available around Malacca city.