Hellooo...what with the wedding and all that coming up. I can't deny it, it's all about $$$$...and needless to say any holiday out of the country is totally OUT OF THE QUESTION until the wedding end of this year :( But me being me, i just cannot stay quietly in one place. The only option? Cuti cuti malaysia lor! Last weekend was a long weekend, on Friday itself I asked the bf whether he wants to do a road trip that weekend. He asked me where? I thought long and hard (no, not really) and decided IPOH!
On Friday night itself, we made our hotel reservations! This I can say is our most spontaneous trip after so many years. Pathetic isnt it :( On Saturday morning, we started our journey at 10:30am from Penang and arrived at 12:30pm. Yes, we need our sleep :P
This is where we spent the night. The French Hotel....(map location as provided)
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Room was reasonably priced (RM148 NETT), comfortably sized, location was good....only gripe, we had to share our car park with the throngs of crowd going to the pasar pagi on Sunday morning =_= and not forgetting being woken up at 6am by the pasar pagi crowd :(
Anyway, the minute we finished exploring the hotel room....we set out for lunch! Where else but to try the famous Ipoh white coffee @ Nam Heong Coffee Shop
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Twice we've been here and twice the coffee shop was pretty full during lunch time. But we were lucky enough to get a seat after a few minutes of searching. There are a few stalls there....the famous one being the egg tart / dim sum stall...I ordered the dried curry mee and of course white coffee (RM1.80 only!) while someone had the PENANG char koay teow! Yes! Driving down from Penang to Ipoh eating PENANG ckt...i was nagging at him while stealing a bite of his ckt and....boy! was it good! LOL (forgot to take a photo)
Went back to the hotel for an afternoon nap and off to the church for Sunset mass at 7pm. Was a bit reluctant to spend my holiday going to church :x but I did not regret it cos look! pretty church!
And there was a "super moon" phenomenon that night...
After mass, we went for the famous nga coi kai @ Lou Wong (beansprout chicken koay teow)
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The place was packed as was our first time there 3 years ago but still we were lucky enough to find an empty table! whee! As you can see, juicy, scrumptious chicken...big juicy beansprouts, smooth koay teow! yums!
Next morning, i was adamant in waking up early for dim sum (which proved to not be difficult since i was woken up by the pasar pagi anyway =_=)
9am and we are already out to....
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Foh San Dim Sum restaurant which really looks more like a palace than anything else. Can you imagine? One big place like that just selling dim sum?? in the mornings! and it was packed full! If finding an empty table in all the other famous Ipoh eateries were difficult, finding an empty table here is SUPER difficult.
Then again, i guess the "Lady Luck of stuffing yourself silly" with food was with me during the whole trip cos I once again spotted an empty table within few mins *proud* Though that didnt come without a slight tussle with an auntie who wanted to hijack my table while i was waiting for the bf to walk over. WTF!
As you can see in the photo above, everyone was waiting like vultures by the side of your table....counting the minutes while you are enjoying your dim sum. Ordering your dim sum from the counter is also not an easy feat! sighs...
Dim sum was mediocre though of a higher quality compared to the dim sum cafes here in Penang but also comes with a big price tag! Would I go back there again? Once in a blue moon ok lah! Just to fight with all the aunties for breakfast dim sum *sniggers*
After that, we got so tired of all the pasar pagi crowds and decided to drive back to Penang after buying all the famous Ipoh titbits. One of them is this famous kaya kok (kaya puff) from Sin Eng Heong
We were there early and managed to buy lots of these precious pastry back to Penang. At 80cents a piece, it is definitely worth every single cent! Yums! I would go back to Ipoh just for these!
And with that, that concludes our short Ipoh food trip! :) Which definitely came at a bad time what with my pre-wedding photoshoot coming up in slightly more than a months time...nooooo!!!! Coming up Next....Cameron Highlands food trip!
