danchan-randomthots: makan trip to ipoh

Yesterday, eight of us went on a day-trip to Ipoh to savour some of the culinary delights the town has to offer. And glad to say that we were not disappointed. Our first stop was the Foh San Restaurant which by the way has moved on to a bigger place on Jalan Leong Sin Nam. It's actually just a short distance from it's old location. The new place is big occupying at least 5 shoplots...with a nice ambience for a dim sum restaurant...but more important the dim sum was as usual tasty and delicious. One item which kind of aroused our curiosity was the dumpling with 'lo mai kai' filling plus shreds of turnip...refer to pic below.

at Foh San...

the old Foh San restaurant...

and of course...Foh San at its new premises...awesome...that's what i call progress

ah...delicious dim sum...

the dumpling that got us curious...

and voila...the mystery is solved...

After a delightful breakfast it was time for a nice cup of white coffee at Nam Heong coffeeshop located in the old part of Ipoh City. This coffee shop is supposed to be the place where Oldtown white coffee came from. The coffee was good...rich...thick and creamy. Anyway we noticed that the shop had many hawkers selling a variety of Penang hawker delights like Penang char koay teow, laksa, hokkien mee and so on...We were quite impressed by the char koay teow and hokkien mee...esp the aroma floating in the air and we told ourselves we must give it a try the next time we are in Ipoh. After Nam Heong we went across the road for another cuppa...at Sin Yoon Loong coffeeshop...just to compare its coffee with that of Nam Heong and I must say it tasted nice too...though not as 'kau' as NamHeong's.

Nam Heong coffeeshop

the white coffee at Nam Heong...

just opposite Nam Heong is Sin Yoon Loong...

the white coffee at Sin Yoon Loong...

Next we moved on to Kek Look Tong...a limestone cave just after Ampang. The cave is quite big complete with all the interesting cave formations. I like the place because it's very serene and cool. And behind the cave you can find a very nice lake with limestone hills as its background. After resting for a while there...actually we were waiting for the dim sum to be digested...we went to our next stop i.e. the Sun Yeong Wai Restaurant which is well-known for its roast duck. And again we were not disappointed as the roast duck was excellent. I'm no fan of ducks but this one was really good and yummy..

the entrance to Kek Look Tong...

stalactites and stalagmites...

the serene lake behind the cave..

Sun Yeong Wai which is well-known for its roast duck...

ah...notice the roast duck...its head...I mean...

And finally after the sumptious late lunch...we moved over a few doors away to Yee Hup to shop for some its famous biscuits especially its charbroiled hiong peah. Soon after that we headed for home...