"Melaka" a Melaka Travel Page by l_joo

Make sure you visit this village of Portuguese descendants. If you look at the picture on top taken from their village, you should be able to notice her Portuguese look. She is a Portuguese descendant from the days of 1511 untill 1641. A total of 130 years. My car drove by, ask her whether it is convenience for me to take a photo, she replied "take as many as you like".

According to historians, the first Melaka leader Parameswara of year 1400s once hopped onto Ming Dynasty's teakwood vessel commanded by the famous Muslims eunuch Mr. Ma (but were widely known as Zheng He or old spelling system Cheng Ho). Mr. Ma's father and grandfather both were devout Muslims ever visited Mecca as pilgrimage (I read from book).

The whole family of Parameswara follow Mr. Ma sailed north to the Ming Imperial Palace and as usual, Parameswara has to perform the traditional tribute etiquette to the Ming Emperor because the Mingese think the heaven is under them. According to reliable source from Chinese historical book, the Ming Emperor was so happy to see Parameswara, later both of them exchanged gifts and beautiful complimentary words. Emperor gave Parameswara 500 humans as gifts for him to bring back home. These 500 humans later intermarried local Malays, their descendants were known as Baba-Nyonya. Baba-Nyonya can be seen in Melaka today if you visit their house.

The Hindu Prince later converted to Islam and his eunuch friend ZhengHe, already a Muslim visited him many times.

Chicken rice in balls
This is the Melaka Chicken Riceball located right in the centre of the old town. This restaurant always full and customers must stand beside the table to wait otherwise no chair no table.

Let me introduce to you this person with one leg up, he is one of the community members of a large organization in the world today. This unbelievable organization has half millions of members each contributing their experiences and opinion onto a piece of net which they called internet to share some kind of tips. This person here is one of the member, he is of of them.

Melaka is already a history, today acted mostly as a tourist attraction for photography.

History of Melaka
melaka.gov.my

The Melaka Empire by Sabri Zain

History of Melaka by TED case Studies

Melaka - Land of History and Legends

Simplified Melaka History
mbmb.gov.my

Melaka Hotels

Sejarah Malaysia