S&S in Perak.......sweet

It has been a while since my last visit to Perak.....okok, well again maybe not that long as i am always going to Perak for work.......'sian'...... So here I am with my bunch of colleagues working our arse off during the day, but still manage to squeeze in all the makan sessions during our stay there....Hey, we still need to eat right?

So first stop.......'Tong sui kai' or Dessert Street. A row of stalls located just opposite the SRK (C) Sam Tet where people like to go for dinner and of course the desserts. We ordered rojak buah, 'leng chi kang', chee cheong fun and also ais kacang but this special ice kacang has got lots of fruits in it.

rojak buah

Yummy chee cheong fun with bits of mushrooms. You can also order the herbal chee cheong fun as well......

Herbal chee cheong fun (very tasty)

Leng chi kang

Now this is the ice kacang that i'm talking about. Quite popular. In it you can find mango, watermelon, dragon fruit, jackfruit, bananas and topped with ice cream.....delicious..

The following day, we went to Cowan Street restaurant for the famous Ipoh chicken hor fun and bean sprout. This is the place where the locals go (not the Lou Wong or Ong Kee, which are more touristy). It is located not too far away from Excelsior Hotel.

Hor fun is translucent and smooth, the soup abit too oily, but still tasted yummy.

The chicken here is cooked to perfection and i find it to be more tender than those served at the more touristy restaurants.

and alas......my favourite bean sprouts. Juicy and fat (unlike the ones you find in KL where the bean sprouts are thin and stringy).

If you love tau foo fah, head over to Funny Mountain at Jalan Theatre

It is a small corner lot shop selling soya bean juice and bean curd. It must be the water around Ipoh cause the tau foo fah is very soft and melts right in your mouth.

This is the front view of the shop.

The barrel was almost empty by the time we reached there about 1 pm.

Another favourite of mine is the curry noodles/mee from a coffee shop called Nam Chau at old town (Jalan Bandar Timah, i think).

You can opt for either the dry noodles (above) or the soupy kind. Not very spicy and yet spicy enough ............

Nam chau also serves toasted bread, pastries (legendary) and Ipoh White Coffee. Wah....

Not sure what is this called already as i always point to the poster when i order from the aunty working in the shop. It is best eaten when the pastry is still warm and soft and the filling is pandan lotus.........so good! + Ipoh White Coffee = Heavenly........

Ipoh White Coffee (somehow they make it better in Ipoh), so I must have two ............

Steam sponge cake with kaya.......another favourite of mine

In Taiping, we stopped at another kopi tiam for the seafood porridge (fresh big prawns) and pai tee.........the crust is crunchy and the filling is really good too.....a must try for those who visit Taiping ....

Wah....drool.........(hehehhe, that was our exact reaction when we first saw the claypot of seafood porridge)

Appetiser - pai tee

This time i gave Foh San (famous dim sum place) a miss (though my colleague is kind enough to ta pau 'polo pau' for me.......'happy').

Till the next time.........ciow.....