IPOH Road Trip

As usual, we are so unpredictable. Having the weekend off, Michie pop out the question out of sudden whether we would like to follow her back to her hometown IPOH!!!! hahaahahhahaha.. and of course we agreed without a second thought!! But evonne couldn't make it at last minute *=[*, so left dear and i... and off we go to Ipoh after his last class.

 Based on Dear's GPS and our 'good' sense of direction, we managed to surpass KL roads and got into the highway to Ipoh. *wheeee* everyone's getting excited that day, cause dear wanna eat dim sum & IPOH is super famous for it's dim sum, michie gets to go back home and me... i get to try out my baby!!! XDXD

After 2 and 1/2 hours on the road, we finally reached Ipoh!!! and the view is spectacular!! It feels peaceful and the air is so fresh with all the mountains surrounding the town. *awww* Well, we sorta promised ourselves that we must try as much as we can the famous food in Ipoh and thanks to our tour guide aka driver aka host, we've managed to cover almost everything!!! hahahaha

We went to get some light snacks before we went back to michie's house and refreshed ourselves. Dinner was at Wong Kee Restaurant and the Fish soup there is a must to order when you're here!!!! The soup is flavourful with just the right amount of wine and fish meat itself is soft. Describing the taste of it makes me salivating now.. LOL Thanks to Michie parents for the dinner that night. We went back after that with our full belly and decided to put our 'food itinerary' to a pause that night..hahaha (actually still wanna go out for char kueh tiaw and tau fu fa =p)

Day 2

We woke up early the next day for our DIM SUM!!!!! hahahahahaha to eat dim sum in Ipoh, you'll have to be one of the early bird. Like the chinese saying, early birds got worms to eat ma.. hahahaha The new Foh San, which famous among the locals and non-locals, has just undergo renovation and has really nice interior. According to Michie, the old one is less spacious and seats are limited.

This is only PART of our order that morning!!! hahahahah we quickly grab the HAR GAO and luckily we did!! cause when the guy sat beside us ask for it, the waiter told them that they'll have to wait for the next round!!! hahahahaha *evil laugh* Dim sum in Ipoh is really worth it!!! big prawn in the har gao, thin skin with lots of filling Hong Kong chee cheung fun and lots lots more. You gotta experience this yourself and i bet you'll love it like us!! No wonder la Ipoh people are so proud of their dim sums!! heheheh

After dim sum, what to do?? We are gonna burn all our calories which we consumed during breakfast!!! hahahahaha Michie brought us to visits some of the parks and caves around Ipoh. She also brought us to her secondary school which is many many times more beautiful than St Joe lor.. hahahaha what to do.. i love the english design of the school compound. They even had a pool le!! just that we cannot go in that day cause it was locked. =[ So after alll those walking, climbing up stairs and ss-ing.. tummies are hungry again d! hahahaha our tour guide recommend us to try their famous asam laksa at the hawker stall just under a big big tree!

The place is also famous for it's red bean drinks and fried carrot cake. The red bean drinks was so-so for me but the fried carrot cake was really nice!!! Especially when it's not that oily and the addition of Ipoh bean sprouts really deserves a thumb up from me. =) As for the popiah, i just find it taste ok.. or maybe it's because that i'm still full from the dim sum that we had that morning. XP We went to Jusco after that, walked around and had our dinner at home. Michie's mum cooked something light for us but dear and i love it. hhehehehe

Day 3

Our mission for the last day is to try the Fish Head Bihun and the famous Ipoh Ngar Choi Gai (Beansprout with Chicken)!!! (just realised fish head bihun photo is not in XP) hahahaha and of course with the amount of foods we consumed, it had be well balanced with the amount of walkings to be done. We were brought to the beautiful Perak Cave where we can view the whole Ipoh from the top.

Food photos are all compiled together cause i'm just too lazy to upload them one by one. hehehe there's popiah again but this time better taste, sweet chee cheung fun, pumpkin dessert, delicious + nice smell egg tarts & the famous Ngar Choi Gai!! Look closer at the bean sprout.. it is short and fat d!!! very crunchy and refreshing when you eat it with the noodles. Oh, and the soup for the noodles is rich with prawn flavour.. (really OMG! i'm gonna go back and have a big bowl of this the next time i'm there!!!)

Overall, we had fun trying new foods in Ipoh. Thanks to Michie and her family for accomodate us for that 3 days 2 nights. One target is strike off the food list and where's next????? Give you one clue... this place is famous for it's char kueh tiaw... hehehehehhehe

PENANG HERE WE COME!!!!

*after exam la.. hehehehehe*