The Sleepy Hollow awakens ..... (3)

After looking around the clock tower area, acting like tourists and taking photographs ... we continued our walking cruise to the famous Jonker street. It has been revamped for the better. What used to be OCBC bank if I was not mistaken was now a building up for sale. The rows of baba nyonya houses along the street were converted into shophouses. What a waste as they were not interested in the intricate architecture nor the tiled and laid-in mother of pearl walls which was synonymous with baba nyonya culture. I related to Ikram what this place used to be and how quaint and quiet this place was until they created a short cut from Klebang to Bandar Hilir passing through the narrow Jonker street. From an exclusive baba nyonya restaurant, it slowly developed into a commercial area and became the place to visit and hang around. Thus, we acted as tourists. For Ikram, it was his first time here again in his teens. I took them here when they were kids so he could not recall much. We looked into the shops, browsed through the items on sale, bought a few souvenirs for myself and friends and chatted with the friendly sellers.

The road sign that welcomes you into Jonker street

A replica of Admiral Cheng Ho's ship, I guess ... ;-}

This was outside a large Chinese restaurant at the entrance of the street

Another welcoming signage

The famous chicken rice ball restaurant - one of its kind and only found on Jonker street, so they say ...:-D))

One of the many shops that we entered and bought souvenirs

The cute key-chain for friends ..

From one magnet ..... in the end, I bought 9 fridge magnets .... :-D))

We just continued walking and crossed over into Jalan Bunga Raya again. We stopped for mee rebus and cendol. After a final look around at a place so familiar to me .... we drove on to continue our bonding time together.....