Aka Momiji @ Ipoh Medan Bestari

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Having opened their doors to the public since year 2009, Aka Momiji has been captivating the hearts of many Ipoh folks. This includes my parents. Aka Momiji is their favourite Japanese restaurant in Ipoh. We have celebrated countless birthdays and special occasions here. Interior is very simple, but nice and clean. There's also elegant tatami rooms catered to larger groups. … [Read more...]

Purple Cane Tea House @ Osborne Street, Ipoh (the old Foo San premise)

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It's interesting to see how the old premise where Ipoh's legendary dim sum giant previously occupied has been transformed into a charming and quaint tea house. A lot of thoughts have been put into the layout and landscaping of the old premise. On one side of the outlet houses their retail segment which features various tea products and utensils, on the other side is the dining area with charming … [Read more...]

Celebrating Chinese New Year in Ipoh

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Chor 7: Lou Sang! Ipoh Leng Luis Chor 8: Bai Tin Gong The ninth day of Chinese New Year is a significant day for the Hokkiens, it is a day of gratitude for their ancestors’ relive. The story goes like this: intruders invaded the village - the Hokkiens ran for their life and hid themselves under the clusters of sugarcane - tntruders left, the Hokkiens came out from the clusters, and it is … [Read more...]

Ipoh Food Excursion III – The Best of Ipoh & Tanjung Tualang

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Happy New Year everyone! Gone is the month with four long weekends where we can do food excursions up north or down south like this (part II) or this (part I). However, if you do have time to do a food trip to Ipoh, please read on. After making 7 to 9 pit stops a day in the earlier part of our trip, we have decided to tone down our food intake for a little bit, hence the shorter post. #1 … [Read more...]

JJ Swiss Roll @ De Mouth Restaurant, Ipoh

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I remembered having a first taste of JJ Swiss Roll at a friend's place few years back and I was really impressed with the varieties. Since then, JJ Swiss Roll has expanded to 3 outlets and the one nearest to me is actually this "shop" (more like a kiosk with chiller and all) located at the back corner of De' Mouth, a Chinese restaurant. I went back home few months back, with a mission at hand - … [Read more...]

Ipoh Food Excursion II – 9 Stops in 1 Day

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Continued from Day 1... We made 9 pit stops on the second day of our Ipoh Food Excursion. Here's a picture of us before the excess weight and love handles came into picture. #1 Foh San Dim Sum The spanking new and clean Foh San Dim Sum which can easily fit few hundreds patrons at one go were fully occupied by the time we got there. Not surprising at all, as according to my parents, the … [Read more...]

Ipoh Food Excursion I – Nam Heong, Kwong Heng, Sam Poh Tong, Aun Kheng Lim Salted Chicken, Onn Kee Taugeh Chicken, Yuan Wah Snow Beer

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The title is self explanatory. Together with my usual partners in crime, we drove back to my lovely hometown, Ipoh and practically nonstop binge eating through out the week. I'm now having a hard time adjusting back to our usual de-lata lifestyle here at KL. As usual, the balik kampung rush has choked the highway to death. Time flies when we were having fun gossiping and before we knew it, … [Read more...]

Oxpicious New Year

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Some random pictures from my Oxpicious New Year: #1 Chinese Festive Decoration at Home (the mini mandarin oranges are so sweet and juicy!) #2 Cuteness Overload #3 Angpow Giving Ceremony to Perak Thalassemia Society #4 Ipoh Girls (@ Maria's, Josephine's Cafe & Friends' Cafe) #5 Assam House, Greentown (very nice halal Nyonya Food) #6 Weng Seng, Gunung Rapat (my family's … [Read more...]

Unique Seafood Perak

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Our first visit to Unique Seafood falls on Father’s Day, with a lounge full of customers waiting to be seated we were fortunate enough to secure a table shortly. We handed dad the baton of ordering since it was his day. We were expecting jumbo oysters, huge mantis prawns, bigger sized crabs but most of the orders turned out less than satisfactory. According the restaurant manager, those were … [Read more...]

Deuk Deuk Tong (Traditional Sweets)

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“Dong Dong Dong”, we were distracted from our scrumptious fare of dim sum in Foo San. A man in his early 30s is holding a pair of flat chisels to break the big block of candies apart. Two packets (RM 3) of Deuk Deuk Tong was brought home then. Having lived in a “mentos” generation, it is something new for us but not for our parents. It has brought back a lot of childhood memories of … [Read more...]

Kedai Makanan Nam Heong @ Ipoh Old Town

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  Old Town is always a pride of Ipoh people with the origination of White Coffee, curry noodles who made their name to foreign land, hor hee that attracts patrons from other states and other scrumptious variety of food. For me, it is a place that stir up nostalgia because it is a place where my parents brought me for afternoon tea since young before Starbucks, Coffee Bean or the air … [Read more...]

Restaurant Fai Kee @ Jalan Seenivasagam, Ipoh

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In Ipoh, eating“Zhu Fan” is so popular that in fact we have the saying among ourselves (or maybe just my family, but who cares? :p) that Ipoh is a land distinguished for its “Zhu Fan” culture. Choose from kuey teow, mee hoon, yellow noodles or rat tailed noodles to assorted seafood or poultry, each zhu fan is made to order. The cook will use a huge metal saucepan to boil the broth and … [Read more...]