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Dutch Harbour Cafe Melaka – also nice to enter at the back

Published on March 15, 2010 in Food & Drinks. 0 Comments Tags: , , .



This is among restaurant in Melaka that you can enter both from the front entrance and at the back. The back entrance also as nice as the front entrance. Seat at the back and you can enjoy dining just at the lazy Melaka River. By the restaurant name, you can guess that this restaurant serve Dutch Food. Yes they serve Dutch food. You can browse the complete Dutch Harbour Cafe menu here.

Dutch Harbour Cafe Melaka located at Stadhuys Shop lot at Banda Hilir along Jalan Laksamana. From Town center you can use Jalan Bendahara. Let say you start from Renaissance Hotel Melaka. Go Straight at Jalan Bendahara until the first traffic light. Than you can see Public Bank on your left and a parking lot on your right. Just go to that parking lot and park there. From the parking lot just walk because the Restaurant is just few blocks away.

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Dutch descendants of Malacca

Published on June 10, 2009 in culture and Melaka. 0 Comments Tags: .



Remember Pirates of the Caribbean?

Although the Dutch colony stay longer than the Portuguese in Malacca and many of the building remains are Dutch, there is no specific Dutch Village here like the Portuguese Village at Ujung Pasir. So when the Dutch defeated the Portuguese, they build the Stadhuys Complex, Church and Residential at Hereen Street that still available till today but where are the Dutch Descendants here at Malacca?

Now the Branyo and Farapeira are among Melaka folk dance although the Origin is from Portugal. But I never heard about Dutch culture anywhere here. Well actually the Dutch descendants are exist in this country and they are consider the minority within the minority. They are scattered all over the country and not only centered in Malacca. They maybe the smallest group of Eurasians in Malaysia but the they are descendants of the VOC or Dutch East India Company pioneers who ruled Malacca in 1641 for 16 decades.

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— asmaliana

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