6 Hours At Ipoh - Part I
It was October 28, 4.30am when all three of us (Ah Yong, Ah Kit and me) dragged ourselves to get ready and start our half day trip to Ipoh. Initially, May Gin was supposed to join us but bailed out on the night before. Oh well, not that we were going to cancel our trip just because someone bailed out, right?
As I was the most wide awake among the three of us, I drove to Ipoh while Ah Yong would drive back to KL. It was proven a wise decision that I drove up to Ipoh because Ah Yong fell into a drain while walking to a toilet at a petrol station. LOL. It must be the karma for not bringing his girl friend along.
It has been quite a while since we sunbathed ourselves in the early morning sunlight.
Our first stop was none other than the Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant. I haven’t been here for more than two years, since our last trip to Cameron Highlands. Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant is well known throughout the country and was featured on many magazines, newspapers and shows before. It is safe to say that they are the pioneers of dim sum restaurant in Ipoh.
You have to queue and fight for your own seat / table and high chances you will be sharing the table with other strangers as well. Upon seated, you will be given a piece of paper and all your orders will be jotted down by the waitress on that paper. Present the paper to the counter and they will calculate the total of the bill.
Two years back, we were still student and we had limited money to spend. On top of that, we had a rather heavy breakfast at Bidor before we had dim sum. This time, being the first station and arrived empty stomach, we didn’t show any mercy and no remorse for all the tiny dumplings. With an almost unlimited budget, we whacked as many dim sums as we could. No captions, no comments, just pictures. Use your imagination to imagine and fantasize how wonderful and delicious these little dumplings are. Juicy and natural sweetness from the freshest medium sized prawns you can bite on.
The bill? RM93! That’s RM31 per person. It was insane. The pictures may show only one of each type, but some of them we ordered twice, thrice and even quadruplet. We spent 90 minutes eating our breakfast, whereas the strangers that sat with us has changed twice and we were yet to leave our table. For once, eating dim sum for breakfast became a little suffering the moment we stepped out of the restaurant, with a bloated stomach, of course.
I needed something chilled to cool myself down. The hot Chinese tea that I had during our breakfast was literally killing me. We then drove to the old town for some authentic white coffee at Nam Heong Coffee Shop. I think they are also one of the pioneers in Ipoh, hence, the coffee shop is always full house.
Actually, I am not a coffee lover. Not even those franchised Starbucks, Coffee Bean or San Fransisco. Coffee makes me feel bloated and lose my appetite for the whole day. I am more of a tea guy. However, I do love drinking white coffee though and it doesn’t really give me the feeling of bloated like other coffee should. I had two glasses of iced white coffee. Even the foam tasted better.
We were too full to go for another round of food tasting. Hence, we decided to give our stomach and our body a good rest. We didn’t sleep at all last night, especially me, and I was sleep deprived. I needed to sleep, desperately.
Guess what we did?
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Tags: Dim Sum, Foh San, Ipoh, Nam Heong, Old Town, White Coffee
November 5th, 2007 01:13
Okler… sorry that i din go with u…. really regret it especially after seeing the pictures. Yummy!!! Next round ok we go there and wallop all the siew mai… hehe…
November 5th, 2007 02:39
November 28? Last year ah?
November 5th, 2007 08:36
hey, next time you should tell me when you get to ipoh, you dont have to eat dim sum for RM 31 per person, there is alot of nice dim sum hiding all over ipoh and not so expensive… btw, forget to intro myself, maria’s blog reader… feel sorry for you as spend so much ya…next time do give me a ring ya, i will show you the place around for nice food…don worry…i m a food seeker…for nice food…
November 5th, 2007 09:01
Wah korek stories 1 year ago, you are so desperate ar..
Dim sum in Ipoh always has to share table, and that’s what I dont’ like. Not only that, the people that is standing, staring behind you waiting for your table is sooooo annoying!!
November 5th, 2007 09:39
he korek the stories la .. becoz he’s planning to come back on 9th maa :D….
:D .. gud to see u back :D
November 5th, 2007 10:57
93 bucks.. not bad lah..! you know hor.. i would even pay more.. if i can get good dim sum here.
November 5th, 2007 10:58
31 per person just for Dim Sum!
November 5th, 2007 13:00
Wah wah ‘lau nuah’ le.
Not bad lah RM31 per person for a good dim sum breakfast.
So what did you guys do? Play chor tai tee?
November 5th, 2007 13:57
wahh thts quite exp. but, if it was good, rm90 was worth it. i love har kao!
November 5th, 2007 14:22
wah!!!! RM31 for dim sum?!!!!! u all memang pandai makan…
November 5th, 2007 15:35
Cutie : Hehe. Next time, perhaps. Too bad you couldn’t join us.
Anthraxxxx : LOL. I have edited the typo. Thanks.
Melysa : We are not locals so we definitely won’t know the cheaper dim sums in Ipoh. Of course, we would then go for the famous one. Feel sorry? Haha! It’s okay, we are willing to spend for good food and RM31 for such good and amount of dim sums is totally worth it. Haha! Thanks for dropping by. Will definitely email you if I ever come to Ipoh again.
Yung. : Haha! Fixed the typo already. Yes, a lot of people did that thinking that we have eaten really a lot and were about to leave. Mana tau we kept on ordering and they left our table. Haha! We ate for 1.5 hours.
Superhero W : It’s a typo and I ran with it. Does that sentence sounds familiar to you?
Mama Bok : Yes yes, I would pay for good and delicious food too.
Mikel : Ok what! Look at the prawns!
Che-Cheh : Yes yes, damn nice! RM100 worth of dim sums! Hehe! No. They left me in the car alone, sleeping, in a car park! Haha!
Xin : Worth it. Almost every dim sum had prawns in it!
Hung Wei : Haha! That’s why we are so fat. :P
November 5th, 2007 16:30
LOL sure no problem dude. At one point I thought you went for time traveling :P
November 5th, 2007 18:33
oh noes!! im craving for dim sums! i miss msia! :(
November 5th, 2007 18:51
Wow! You make my stomach got a big hole! I want to eat……..
November 5th, 2007 21:15
Just looking at the picture made my mouth watery…… looks yummy….. but some dim sum have prawns in them…. I am allergic to prawns…..
November 6th, 2007 00:18
Anthraxxxx : Haha! If I could travel back to time, I would change a lot of things.
Claudine : I hope the pictures helped you in one way or another. You don’t get to eat ‘em at least you get to see ‘em. Heh!
Vhanded : Haha! Cyberjaya got nothing to eat. Head over to Serdang instead.
KLJS : Oh, you got your own domain already. Haha! Been ages since I visited your blog. Well, if you are allergic to prawns, I guess you can’t take most of the dim sums in Foh San. You can try others though.
November 6th, 2007 00:47
yeah, got my own domain. And also shifted from Blogger to wordpress…
I usually only eat the non-seafood dim sum….as I am also allergic to most seafood….
November 6th, 2007 01:05
hey.. just a passerby.. your food seduced me in.. =P
the “har kau” to me.. looked kinda yummylicious….
nice?? better worth that bill total.. haha
November 6th, 2007 04:58
i can only eat those without pork meat in it. halal! :P
November 6th, 2007 08:34
actually, i m not from ipoh, hehe…it just that i married a ipoh guy…ya, RM 31 is nothing to a outsider, maybe for us who usually dine around there is not worth it…i will give you some address to the places where you can find good food around the area…wait for my mail ya…am afraid later i go confinement hardly got time to reply mail…haha…nice meeting you…
November 6th, 2007 09:19
yippie!!! you’ve updated your blog. and as promised i came to check for updates. hehe. the dim sum look so delicious. i’m super hungry now. *sob sob*
November 6th, 2007 09:37
Omgawd..Kill ME NOWWWWW…(yl stabs herself with a knife…REPEATEDLY)
November 6th, 2007 10:21
I want~~~ T-T
November 6th, 2007 11:43
yeah. back to malacca d..
today 2nd day. aaaa.. boring
you’re in what faculty?
November 6th, 2007 12:59
Kljs : Congrats on your new site. :)
Michelle : The prawn dumplings have 3-4 medium size prawns inside. You say nice or not? Haha! Definitely worth the bill, for us.
Claudine : Halal? Are you a Malay or you don’t eat pork?
Melysa : Looking forward to your email but it will be some time before I revisit Ipoh. Sighs.
Zthon : Haha! I kept my promise and so did you. Its lunch time now, I hope you get something nice to eat. However, my dim sums are definitely better. LOL.
Yea Lee : So, what happened to your AUD authentic Hong Kong dim sums?
Jamie : We reached KL at 4pm. Told you to join us, you didn’t want to. Too bad.
Reddish Tea : Welcome back. I am in FET. Heh!
November 6th, 2007 13:22
waa…nice food …give me some…
November 6th, 2007 16:01
IPOH ARRRR MY HOMETOWNNNNN! =D
November 6th, 2007 23:50
Aiyoh!! The food so delicious!!
And the mountains!! Looks so nice!!
:) Definite a good trip..
how much you spend?
November 7th, 2007 12:44
Foh San… and Ipoh White Coffee.. Ah… Really good pics..*drools* When I go back, it’ll be on my top things-to-do list. :p
November 7th, 2007 12:54
Xyiry : Haha. Drive to Ipoh then.
Chingy : Yes, I know its your hometown.
Michael Woo : We spent RM93 for all the dim sums, which came up to RM31 per person. Yes, we really ate a lot of dim sums.
Felicia : You are from Ipoh too?
November 7th, 2007 21:53
from a smaller town.. but very near to ipoh la.. it’s like my 2nd hometown maybe? haha…
November 7th, 2007 21:54
Felicia : Bidor? LOL. I see.
November 8th, 2007 02:15
oh. i just alpha. heh.
November 8th, 2007 19:20
I read your 2nd part first then read your part 1. It was your part 1 that got me drooling all over my notebook keyboard. :)
November 8th, 2007 19:54
Bidor? That so far away… 2nd guess? haha.. A more historical place.. it’s really like Tampin.. heheh…
November 8th, 2007 20:31
Reddish Tea : So young. Haha!
Andrew Ooi : I understand that, it was the dim sums that made us go to Ipoh too, not the bean sprouts and soya beans.
Felicia : Gopeng? Teluk Intan? Taiping? Sungai Petani?
November 11th, 2007 20:13
*evil laugh* LOL. Sungai Petani? Er…
Nah.. :P
November 11th, 2007 20:22
Felicia : Sungai Petani?
November 12th, 2007 10:34
Sigh.. Sungai Petani is in Kedah.. :p
November 12th, 2007 10:35
Felicia : I failed my Geography. Haha! I am too lazy to guess, I shall ask my sister instead.
November 12th, 2007 23:08
haha.. off you go then.. hope you enjoy your makan trip at SS2..:)
*drools* haha..
November 12th, 2007 23:09
Felicia : Eesshh…