Continued from “6 Hours At Ipoh - Part I“…

Ah Yong drove the car to Ipoh’s Jusco, found a parking lot, mumbled some stuffs to me, locked the car and went inside Jusco, with me sleeping inside the car throughout the 90 minutes. No shit! They actually left me there, locked in a car, sleeping, alone in the car park! Both of them went to the Jusco’s toilet to answer nature’s call. How cruel. They even came back with a “Crayon Shin Chan” comic book.

The 90 minutes of sleep (with me crunching at the back seat) and break for them, I was refreshed again and our stomachs were all set and ready for our lunch, chicken rice with crunchy bean sprout at Onn Kee Restaurant.

When we arrived, there were not too many customers and we immediately found a table. Ah Yong placed our orders while the rest continue to sober from sleep (me) and acting blur (Ah Kit). Food was served very quickly and it wasn’t long after that we were tucking into our chicken white rice and sar hor fun.

The fish and beef balls were great. Juicy, spongy and firm. The soup? Jason rolls his eyes.

The chicken tasted so so, not as tender as what steamed chicken should be. I find it a little tasteless too, but after dipping it with the sauce, it’s all good.

Bean sprout has never tasted so good before. Watered with water from the mountains, these bean sprout are very crunchy and fat. Although the ones in the picture aren’t really fat. Nice, you don’t get such bean sprout except in Ipoh. Hence, its a must try if you visit Ipoh. By the way, I still hate bean sprouts that their roots aren’t plucked away.

After having our lunch, we walked to the nearby Funny Mountain Soya Bean stall. This stall has been operating for many years and has been featured a few times. If you are too lazy to walk to their shop, you can just drive and stop right in front of their shop, they will still serve you your tau foo fah or soya bean milk in your car. Pretty much like a drive through.

I wasn’t thirsty and I couldn’t resist the temptation of trying their tau foo fah after looking at it. That’s really one big wooden bucket of tau foo fah.

Man, their tau foo fah were absolutely delicious. It was extremely and superbly soft, delicate, smooth and delicious. They can easily be rated as one of the top ten tau foo fahs in the nation, and maybe even the best. However, ain’t the portion a little wee bit too small? Now that the base of tau foo fah is soya bean, I am pretty sure their soya bean milk tasted superb as well.

That basically concluded our six hours at Ipoh trip.

However, there’s one more thing we needed to do before we leave the town. Aun Kheng Lim salted chicken.

Salted chicken is another specialty of Ipoh town and Aun Kheng Lim is the pioneer for salted chicken. Basically, its kampung chicken, stuffed with herbs and spices, and then wrapped with paper. Before being baked, the chicken is then wrapped with rock hard salt.

The chicken has herbal taste and is slightly salty. It is a little oily as well but the oil comes from the chicken meat, all natural. I didn’t take any picture of the chicken. Hence, credits go to KampungBoyCityGal.

Well, that concludes our 6 hours at Ipoh and certainly, it was a fun, satisfying and mouth watering road trip.

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?

I shall not wait until November 9 even though it is just less than a week away. Timothy just picked me as Nuffnang’s November Featured Blogger and I don’t want new visitors coming to my blog to read a hiatus post.

Normal posting will continue starting from next week, on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; just like how it used to be.

Many thanks to Timothy for the exposure and selecting me as the featured blogger. I love Boss Stewie and Nuffnang. I promise I will bring you Mille Crepe the next time I come KL.

Please click on the link to continue your reading at Nuffnang’s Featured Blogger For November page.