Foh San, I'm coming. This is my 4th visits to Ipoh. My main target is always dim sum, dim sum and dim sum...or maybe I can say food, food and food as I don't see any other entertainments in Ipoh except foods.
From my previous experienced, I realized that If I reach Foh San after 8.30am, it will definitely full house, so what did I plan this time? Haha~ I plan to overnight in Ipoh as I do not want to wake up early and drive along the way from Penang to Ipoh, so based on the information I found, it stated Foh San operation hour from 6.30am - 3.30pm. So, I will be there around 7am+, surely I can get table, right?
Of course nope!!! By 7.20am I reached Foh San, my goodness! Again full house and people are queuing for seat (next time I better reach before 7am). Therefore, my friend and I was waiting for seat. Luckily we managed to get table after 20 mins time. For a big restaurant like Foh San, they should implement queue number system which do not have to let people spend so much time to hunt for a table and can enjoy the first come first serve service.
Sun Seng Fatt (新成發), 我的新大陸, 之前來怡保完全忽略了咖哩河粉的存在. 這一次真的讓我大開眼界了. 一直都以為怡保出名清湯腩, 牛腩河, 但是原來咖哩也很好吃. 有干咖哩也有咖哩湯的, 當然我們叫了人人所推薦的咖哩河粉, 在沒有特別order下, Sun Seng Fatt為我們上了一碗雞絲咖哩河粉和一碗叉燒咖哩河粉. 它咖哩的味道和我之前在檳城吃過的咖哩魚頭味道最接近, 感覺很好吃,蝦也很新鮮, 份量也不大, 一碗RM4, 保證吃完後可以再吃一碗嫩滑的豆腐花.
No doubt, Ipoh have 2 famous competitors of Bean Sprout Chicken, one of them is Onn Kee, another one is Lou Wong, their shop is just next to each other. With my own preference and friends recommendation, I personally decided to have my dinner at Onn Kei.
According to one of my friend, she said Onn Kei now owned total 4 shops at Jalan Yau Tet Sin. But still, it's pretty crowded and almost everyone are standing outside the shop to hunt for seat. I highly suspected it is because of public holiday. I'm lucky, as I found a couple willing to share table with us but the whole meal spent me about 90 mins to finished. The thing that I can't accept is they forced us to order minimum half chicken and the portion is too big if only for two person. But still, we able to finished it la...(grow fatter after the food trip)
A small hint: the chicken sauce is nice, by pouring it on rice is ichiban!
假期, 怡保到處充滿了人群, 無論你是尋找車位或是吃都得要靠運氣和耐心排隊, 特別在這個酷熱的下午, 看到到處都是人龍還真的有點想放棄, 可是想到只有好吃的東西才會有人龍, 所以最後還是決定撐著雨傘在炎熱的太陽下排隊買 "奇峰" 豆腐花和豆水. 它, 只有售賣白糖豆腐花, 所以不要像我一樣去點黑糖的.
A famous deep fried food from Ipoh, Big Tree Foot, many people called it as "Dai Shu Ha", but bloggers usually called it as "Dai Shu Geok" and the board itself stated "Dai Shu Tao".
Although many parking lot and a big car park provided but parking still full and crowded. Hearsay the coffee shop near to Dai Shu Geok is owned by same owner but the deep fried foods not much choices compared to the old shop. However, due to crowded and public holiday, I forced to try the coffee shop deep fried stuff. Oh Yeah, don't forget to order Ice Kacang drinks (紅豆冰), it's special and nice!
This is the old shop photo:
