A cup of coffee makes the day
We took the three lots for our cars near to the Geographer Cafe, after a Perak-registered car and two Selangor-registered cars drove out. We walked to the beaded-shoes shop on Heeren Street. After getting what we wanted, we walked to the cross-junction of the Famosa chicken rice shop. A tricycle puller sell steamed groundnuts at the other corner but its aroma caught our attention. We couldn't resist to take-away a few packets.
On the other side of the road, a familiar sight appear to us and it is the Goldsmith Street, a street used to film the Little Nyonya. At the mid-point of the Goldsmith Street, a woman sell Nyonya Kuih to her customer. A driver of a refrigerated bonded truck carried boxes of imported frozen meat to a shop next door. It was a typical scene of the yesteryear trade. We continued to the Harmony Street, a narrow one-way lane with traffic direction opposite to the Blacksmith Street. We remember the traditional mi-sua served to us bowl by bowl at the edge of Blacksmith Street that face closely knitted Dutch shop lots that share the same row as the Hard Rock Cafe. Although we eagerly like to probe the heritage remains, that line the Sungai Melaka, we shift the idea as our agenda tomorrow.
By the time our thoughts and discussion on the heritage journey along the Sungai Melaka, is finalized, we realized our walking steps have took us to the Sri Payyatha Vinayagar Moorthi Temple. We saw a Hindu man explaining some past history to a few foreign guests.
We noticed a man staring at us, as we looked far into Temple Street where a red arch graces its entrance. Our eyes meet his, and we're smiling in silence. ' Are your Fendi ? ' , I asked. ' Ya, kamu berada di mana sekarang ? ' Fendi asked. ' Berkerja-lah, berkerja di sebuah kilang di Bukit Rambai ' , jawab saya. Terus saya tanya ,' Fendi dulu buat hiasan kat taman ? ' Ia-lah ' balas dia. Maka, sambung saya , ' Amat bahagia dan cukup bertuah sesungguhnya kita dapat berjumpa di halaman sebuah masjid selepas dua puluh dua tahun kita berpisah. Kita pun ambil gambar. Masjid itu, Masjid Kampung Keling. The masjid was completed in the year 1868. Fendi is doing some structural maintenance work for the 145 years heritage mosque. We have a wonderful chat ...
While Fendi continue his work, we moved on to a colonial shop lot located right after the amazing Temple of Green Cloud. We've got some beads from the shop and we proceeded to the Hailam Huay Kuan where old notes, old coins and old collectible items are paraded. We realized that we are standing on Jonker Walk. Jonker Walk is robust with heritage and I can't deny that.
Thirst has pop-up, and soon we smell coffee. Senses directed us to look towards a girl who is tending to the coffee-dispenser. There is black coffee as while as white coffee. We like the traditional small round table common during the British time before independence which you can view in the video below. We enjoy the great black coffee. Drinking black coffee at that China-Town spot blended the already nice coffee taste and the feelings do not leave me even at this moment when I'm writing this line. A cup of coffee makes the day.
Sin Sing Coffee since 1959
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