Love Letters

There are still villages where houses are made with planks and roofs with zinc sheets. B1 and I wander about. We can see the villagers going about their daily activities. One was putting soil in a pot, another was just sweeping the dead leaves outside their compound, there was a little girl reading, and most interesting for B1 is a lady making love letters for using traditional method. She is making them by hand using the loveletter makers grilled in charcoal. There are six makers and she just keep opening and flipping out the nicely browned one and rolling them. She has amazing patience and will be sitting there all day grilling and churning out love letters. Per bottle is RM19. B1 get to try out the not so good looking love letters for free. It was good to see the good old days leading the Chinese New Year.

I am very happy that B1 followed me to explore life in a village. There is a coffee shop with several mobile carts selling noodles. Fried kuay teow is RM2.50, Mee Rebus is RM1.70 and Wan Tan Mee at RM2.50. Looks like inflation has not reach the local population of Malacca.