The last time I was in Melaka...

... sitting in a car with a Kuching carplate and stopped at a traffic light as it turned red. Not long after we heard a honk nearby... but didn't bother as we knew we already stopped for sometime so "it shouldn't be our car". Then there was a second honk from the same direction... we turned our head looking around and to our left there was a guy with his wind shield down trying to say something to us...

"OH NO? Is there something wrong with our car?", I wondered.

Wound down the wind shield and the guy spoke to us in Mandarin asking... "Where does this 'Q' carplate come from??".

With a pretty puzzled look, we replied in Mandarin, "It's a Kuching carplate!" and smiled back at him.

Then he said, "OH! Thank you!" with a big smile on his face.

That really felt weird having being asked such a question though... then we started laughing on the queer situation as we drove off when the light turned green.