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Bang! S**t head!!
... We started playing a card game called **** head. I learnt quickly but ended up being the **** head by the end of the first game. An American girl named Bethany came over and joined us as well and we played a special card game called Bang. Soon a drunk Dutch guy and a Malaysian guy joined us and it became a real party. Lots of beer, lots of people being shot in this western theme game and a whole heap of fun! We played till the early morning and I asked who ...
Interesting little place
... snacks and Karaoke records. They set out tables and chairs and set in the for the night. Really entertaining!
We have eaten a few meals at the Dutch Harbour Riverside Cafe, and included a picture of one of the giant hamburgers you can eat here. Food is a mixture of western and local, and is very good, as is the ambiance, as the cafe is a heritage building alongside the river, with the original Dutch brick walls ...
Goodbye Doughty's... hello Durian chocolate. Yuck!
... spicy) broth, and half chicken broth, so that you can cook it yourself. We did a similar thing in China, but this one was mainly seafood... except not lovely fresh fish, clams etc... processed raw fish products like fish balls (minced fish formed into spheres), quid and sausage meat wrap things, and fish noodles, which looked like shiny entrails and tasted... pretty minging really.
So in terms of prettiness Melaka did very well. In terms of food? FAIL Melaka. Big ...
Melaka's 'Goa' connection
... Our first stop was the St Paul's Church built by the Portuguese. As the sunday mass was being conducted we couldn't take a walk inside the church. This church has an Indian connection. Apparently the body of St Francis Xavier was interred here temporarily before it was taken to Goa. The St Peter's Church also built by the Portuguese is yet another church which has an Indian connection as its bell was delivered from Goa in 1608.
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The Portuguese in Melaka
... algumas:
- Um ou outro bigode que não está ali, naquela cara, por acaso;
- Os apelidos portugueses, apesar de alguns “z” onde deveriam estar “s”;
- A linguagem. Falam português antigo que procuram preservar e praticar em família. Estranho sentimento o de ouvir um português que, por vez, é como uma nova linguagem completamente diferente, sem qualquer referência com o actual;
- As ...