Food Crawl : Stop 7 – Kedai Kopi Sun Yuan Foong (Ipoh)

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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After a satisfying meal, what do we need now? Coffee, of course !!!

Since we are in Ipoh, it is only right we look for the best Ipoh white coffee. One of the members in this trip told us that this is the restaurant to go for white coffee. After hunting for it a bit, we finally located the Kedai Kopi Sun Yuan Foong along Jalan Bijih Timah. Supposely, this is the origin of White Coffee.

The smell of coffee being roast is so welcoming. We quickly found a seat and order our coffee. The coffee is served in a tall glass packed with ice. The first sip was kind of shocking for me as the coffee was super thick and sweet. But, after mixing the ice well, it was really nice. A tad too sweet for my liking. But, overall very good white coffee indeed.

And how can you have white coffee without the customary butter kaya toast and half boil eggs? Look at the thick sliced of bread. Yay!!! They use the Hainan bread which is so hard to find nowadays in KL. The egg was not bad but I think I would have preferred if they let it cook for another minute or two. This was a little too raw for my liking.

and hence, this concludes our Penang Ipoh 3 days food crawl mission. I think everyone of us parted really happy and satisfied. Not only was the food good. The company was great too.

It was fun and tiring at the same time!!!

Food Crawl – Stop 6 : Restaurant Lou Wong Tauge Ayam Kuetiau, Ipoh

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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After breakfast, we begin to make our journey out from Penang. Made several stops to load on stocks of Tau Sa Peah and also sesame oil at Ghee Hiang. Made a stop for final cendol at Jalan Penang again (one of our friend tapau assam laksa).

We reached Ipoh (Perak) around 2pm and made a stop for the famous Ipoh bean sprouts chicken at the Restaurant Lou Wong along Jalan Yau Tet Shin.  Hoping that since it is not peak hour it will be easier to find a place to seat. No such luck. It is ALWAYS crowded in this restaurant. I’ve been here many times and is almost always at different time, but, it is still pack with people. There’s a few similar restaurant nearby but they never manage to steal the crowd away.

We ordered Ipoh Tauge (Bean Sprouts). For some reason, the Ipoh’s tauge is always shorter, plumber and crunchier compare to the normal bean sprouts. Because of the freshness, the tauge is just lightly blanched served with soya sauce, sesame oil and pepper.

Even after the heavy breakfast, all of us dive in for the tauge and started mixing it the lou sang way. (Lou Sang – typical Malaysian Chinese custom during Chinese New Year for mixing a special dish).

The smooth juicy chicken is very similar to the Hainanese chicken style. It is boiled and then soaked in ice water to stop the cooking and jellified the fats in between the skin and meat. When you take a bite of the chicken, the meat is so slippery that it slide in with a slurped. Love it…

 

All of us happily pile back to the car to head for our next food stop. Where should we go next? hmm….

Food Crawl – Stop 5 : Kwai Lock Kopitiam

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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Right after our Stop 4, we head straight to Kwai Lock Kopitiam, which is located along Jalan Burma and Solok Moulmein. (opposite the Pulau Tikus police station).

As this was not our first breakfast stop, we reach there at the peak hour. Finding a seat was tough, but luckily, we manage to secure 2 tables outside. The only problem was half of the table gets full blast of the sun. 2 of the guys in our group volunteer to take the seat outside. (aww.. so sweet of them).

We had duck mee sua. The soup has a much lighter and clearer consistency compare the bidor version. The duck meat was very soft but not much herb taste.

Apom !!! my favourite. It is so hard to find these hard shell variety of apom now in KL. I ordered mine to have extra butter and peanuts. Look at the thick chuck of goey mess… yummm.

When the curry laksa arrive, I was a little surprise to see the color is quite pale. The KL version is usually very red. The taste is also very light with tons of coconut milk flavors in the soup. Not bad but I think I still prefer the KL version. ;p

Rojak drenched in the pasembur sauce… yum yum.

I also saw a little mobile Muar Chee stall at the end of the solok Moulmein. I love muar chee. So, I quickly bought one box to try. IT was definitely GOOD. The sticky rice was soft and chewy coated with really fragrant crushed sweet peanuts. It was also still abit warm at touch. Very fresh indeed.

We were stuffed after that…