Motormouth From Ipoh – Asian Food & Travel Blog

Not the most common sight – To go along with your fiery bowl of curry mee; at Chuan Fatt in Pasir Puteh, Ipoh, the sheer selection and quality of the sides overshadow the noodles sometimes.

Dear readers. I’m sorry. For I have sinned. I tried my best to work out the reviews in between the feasts this past weekend. I was even planning on a live update of review; streaming food shots and stories throughout the last 3 days. But I faltered.

Or should I say, the weather failed me. Ipoh was scarily hot; to a point of getting that feeling of being trapped in a perpetual convection of heat within a cramped oven.

Or maybe it was time. The rush of adrenaline to write between meals tampered by the even more invigorating choice of in-between snacks (you know me, and you’d better know what Ipoh’s famous for now); rendering Motormouth incapable of penning his thoughts. More to nonsensical rants at times.

Or it must have been the hassle of moving between homes and attending to my grandma‘s 49th day prayers.

Nonetheless, if you even had that slight assumption that I had missed a beat on my Ipoh food reviews recently, let me prove you wrong. Let’s start with a curry mee story. Again.  Read the rest of this entry »

The signature fried salted pork belly from Fu Man; if you don’t mind the fatty cuts, then this platter of absolutely scrumptious and crispy pork belly should be up your alley.

Aside from the famous Tanjung Malim pau from Yik Mun (which was nothing to shout about anyway), I have never ventured out of my cocoons and seek for good food around Tanjung Malim; the southern most town of Perak sharing its border with Selangor. (Although Hutan Melintang/Bagan Datoh to the southwest of Perak also shares a border with Selangor’s Sabak Bernam).

Rather, on most days we settled for the same old Pun Chun duck noodles in Bidor, Choy Kee’s famous pork knuckle in Sungkai and even Slim River’s claypot fish and bullfrogs.

Fu Man Restaurant can’t be seen from the main road, hidden by the current construction works (maybe widening of roads, but JKR works in mysterious ways ….). But just follow the signs to UPSI (Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris) and you should be on the right route.

Imagine of all people, I heard about Fu Man from a group of foodies from Singapore! Yup, thanks to Martine and his battalion of food enthusiasts when we met in Ipoh (albeit for a very brief period), I came to know about this somewhat hidden gem in Tanjung Malim; serving fresh and delicious seafood, pork dishes and at affordable prices to boot.

We ended up buying home a DOUBLE serving of their famed deep fried salted pork belly, and a portion each of the braised pork belly with yam slices and the appetizing vinegar pork trotters. Read the rest of this entry »