Ipoh - Food

Rounding up the Ipoh posts with what we ate.  When in Ipoh I focus on our tried-and-tested places since we aren't there for that many meals.  This round we headed straight to Kong Heng (our appointment at Han Chin Pet Soo being at 2pm).  Satay, popiah, chicken noodle soup were good as usual.  This 'hor hee' JE is eating which came in a steel bowl... was tasteless.

We shall not order from this stall again

I couldn't resist this cafe nearby called 'flufff' (yes, 3 'f's' at the end) and we walked up.  The souffle pancakes were soo light and fluffy!  Hubby's grapefruit soda drink was refreshing.  Not cheap but we enjoyed these 2 items.  JE ordered tiramisu which wasn't good and to this day is still sitting in our freezer haha.

Chocolate souffle pancakes

Went to Soo Har Yee again as it had been a while since our last visit.  One thing I like about Ipoh, places aren't far when compared to the distances and travelling times we are used to in KL.  This dinner turned out sweeter than expected - the "1 bone" pork is always sweetish (love the charred 'char siew' taste).  This time we picked french beans which were fried with caramelised belly pork slices - delicious but sweet too.  The crabs in the bun were unfortunately not firm even though we'd checked beforehand with the captain on the crab quality.  Next time must choose prawns which are less variable. 

Crab bun, pork, veg

For breakfast we headed for Zui Le Xuan as I didn't want to brave the queue and parking woes at Ming Court.  I obviously didn't research properly... pulled up to the place only to find it closed.  What to do... it was late and we were hungry.  Without time to find another place, we headed back to town for Ming Court.  Got lucky as there was parking right in front plus the queue wasn't long!  Phew.  Erm this time the dim sum didn't wow me like before.  Maybe expectations too high haha.  Still, everything tasted good enough and the price was reasonable.

Dim sum to fill our tummies

On to another favourate, Restoran Hooray.  Aiks where Soo Har Yee was a 'sweet' experience, this one turned out to be 'sour' one.  The pickled onion pork was good as usual.  We also had sour veg soup and hubby ordered assam seafood (note to self not to order this again as the seafood was obviously of the frozen variety) as he assumed it's what I would like.  Ended up 3 sour dishes!  

Sour sour food

Final food destination after a lot of internal 'discussions' - Pusing Public restaurant.  We had been driving past it daily as it was a stone's throw from our apartment.  The kids are never keen on Chinese food.  In fact SE said she had had enough Chinese and hawker food already  We headed for another place but couldn't find parking... so seemed like fate for me to declare that we were going back to Pusing!  I loved the yam kailan which had a 'restaurant' feel.  The ginger chicken and other dishes were just ok but I plan to be back to try other dishes.

Drawing something.... ignoring the tofu with fish paste

 Ok that's a wrap for our holiday.  Definitely was the break I needed!