Motormouth From Ipoh – A Malaysian Food Blog

An ever expanding list of some of Food from Ipoh.

(Those in BOLD are personal favourites, not to indicate that they’re everyone’s favourites or Ipoh’s BEST)

Bean Sprout Chicken/Tauge Ayam/Nga Choy Kai

• Buntong Ayam Tauke & Beef Noodles
• Fifteen Tower Nga Choy Kai/Ayam Tauge
• Kam Hor Ayam Tauge @ Ipoh Garden
• Lou Wong Tauge Ayam Kuetiau (NEW!!!)

Curry Noodles

• Curry Mee : Chuan Fatt @ Pasir Putih
• Curry Mee : Kafe Tim @ Medan Ipoh Bistari
• Curry Mee : Keng Nam (Famous Pulut Kaya)
• Curry Mee : Medan Lapangan Lagenda
• Curry Mee : Nam Chau @ Old Town (BEST Dry Curry Mee)
• Curry Mee : Sun Seng Fatt @ Old Town
• Curry Mee : Xin Quan Fang (Famous Police Station Curry Mee)
• Curry Mee : Yat Yat Seng @ Ipoh Garden
• Curry Mee : Yee Fatt (Opposite MGS) @ Jln Kampar

Other Classics

• Aun Kheng Lim Salted Chicken
• Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant (NEW location)
• Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant (OLD location – Closed)
• Kao Lee Dim Sum Restaurant (NEW!!!)
• Ming Court Hong Kong Tim Sum (NEW!!!)

Biscuits, Snacks & Confectioneries

• Ais Sagu (Sek Lau Zhi) @ Pasir Pinji (NEW!!)
• Buntong Kacang Putih
• Canning Garden Happy Fried Dough (Yau Char Kwai, Ham Chim Peng, etc) (NEW!!)
• Ching Han Guan Biscuit Shop (Meat Floss Biscuits)
• Choy Kee Egg Tarts @ Simee Market
• Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah/Soybean Curd (NEW!!)
• Hong Kee Famous Egg Tarts
• Indian Fritters @ Green Shack, Jalan Tun Perak – Curry Puffs, Pisang Goreng
  
• JJ Cakes & Swiss Rolls @ Jln Kampar
• Kedai Soya Bean Delights
• Seng Kee Traditional Heong Peng – Coconut shell broiled
• Seremban Siew Pow
• Sin Eng Heong (Famous Kaya Puff)
• Tong Sui Kai (Dessert Street) (NEW!!)

Western Food – Cafes, Restaurants & Bistros

• Beacon Point Cafe
• Brewster’s Restaurant, Old Town
• Brewsterlane Kitchen
• Citrus Wine & Dine
• David’s Diner
• Denis Jazz Bistro
• Indulgence Restaurant & Living
• Italia Mia Restaurant @ Sunway City, Tambun
• Josephine Cafe & Bistro
• Lee’s Burger and Western Food @ Bercham (NEW!!)
• Macoy European Restaurant @ Greentown Square (NEW!!)
• Michelangelo’s Pizzeria @ Medan Ipoh Bistari (near Jusco/Tesco) – (NEW !!!)
  
• Mixed Cuisine Cafe @ Old Town
• Momo Cafe & Steamboat @ Old Town
• Old Town White Coffee (Kopitiam) – EVERYWHERE in Ipoh !!! (NEW!)
• Olivenz Cafe @ Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh
• Pappa Rich @ De Garden (NEW!!)
  
• Sharon’s Laksa aka Bee Home Cafe and the New Menu (NEW!)
• Sincero Wine & Dine
• Sky Corner
• SSTC Italian Cafe
• The Fairway @ Royal Perak Golf Club - Opens to non-members.
• Thum’s Western Food @ New Weng Fatt, Ipoh Garden South

Chinese Food (Hawker Food)

• Bercham Prawn Wantan Mee @ Shine Noodles, Restoran T&V (NEW!)
• Big Tree Foot (Dai Shu Kiok) Yong Tau Foo @ Pasir Pinji
• Buntong Famous Cheong Kee Wan Tan Noodle (NEW!)
• Canning Garden Chee Cheong Fun
• Chang’s Hakka Mee & Beef Soup @ Old Town (NEW!!)
• Fai Kee Seafood Noodles @ Greentown (NEW!)
• Falim : Sri Taman Mas Restaurant’s Crispy Roasted Duck
• Gunung Rapat : Kee Poh Laksa
• Gunung Rapat : Kwong Hong Yong Tau Foo
• Hoong Wan Fish Noodles @ Chemor
• Hwang Chao (Singapore Chicken Rice) @ Old Town
• Jalan Datoh Noodle Stall – Famous Wantan Mee (NEW!!)
• K10 Claypot Chicken Rice @ Bercham
• Kafe Sentosa - Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun (NEW!)
• Kar Pin Eating Shop (Yong Tau Foo) @ Jln Bendahara
• Kong Heng Coffee Shop @ Old Town
• Kum Kee Big Small Feet @ Pasir Pinji (NEW!!)
  
• Let’s Rock (Tai Kar Rock) Fishball Noodles @ Greentown (NEW!!)
  
• Medan Aneka Selera (Tung Koo Thing)
• Menglembu (The Twins/Ma Zhai Chee Cheong Fun)
• Nam Heong White Coffee @ Old Town – The ORIGIN of Old Town White Coffee
• Ngan Woh Coffee Shop @ Bercham – Steam Fish Head with Bitter Gourd, Sar Kok Liew (NEW!!)
• Pasir Pinji Fried Yong Tau Foo
• Poh Lee Fried Chicken @ Pasir Pinji
• See See Heng Hor Hee Fun (NEW!!) – Curious to know what’s Hor Hee?
• Sin Lean Lee (Golden Char Kuey Teow) @ Old Town
• Sin Yoon Loong White Coffee, Old Town
• Stadium Ipoh – Seng Loong Char Koay Teow, Wanton Noodles (NEW!)
• Sun Yuan Loong White Coffee, Pasir Putih
• Teluk Intan Famous Nasi Pulut @ New Weng Fatt, Ipoh Garden South
• Thean Chun/Hall of Mirrors (Chicken Kuey Teow Soup/Kai See Hor Fun) @ Old Town
• Wong Fee Kee (Pig’s Offals Porridge/Zhu Chap Chuk) @ Bercham
• Woolley Food City – Everything under one roof
• Yew Ming Teochew Porridge @ Old Town
• Yong He Taiwanese Traditional Snacks
• Zun Seng Fatt Pork Noodles @ Old Town

Chinese Food (Restaurants)

• A’Shore Restaurant & Tea Bar
• Claypot Crab Tanghoon @ Restoran Rasa Lain, Bercham
• Claypot Crab Tanghoon @ Same Taste Restaurant, Bercham (NEW!)
• Delight Seafood Restaurant (Reunion Dinner 2010) (NEW!!)
  
• Good Taste Chef Klang Bak Kut Teh – Both soup and dry versions available
• Greentown Noodle House
• Hoi Seng Restaurant
• Home Cook Recipe Restaurant
• Hong Kong Restaurant (Roast Duck) @ Tasek
• Hoong Tho Restaurant @ Old Town – A most classic restaurant since childhood
• Hoy Tin Lau Restaurant @ Bercham (Closed)
• Huang Ting Restaurant @ First Garden
• Menglembu : Pin Sum Restaurant
• Mon Amour Restaurant
• Mun Choong Restaurant @ Pasir Puteh – Classic, famous for weddings etc. Pan-fried prawns!
• Mun Ji Restaurant @ Menglembu – Great Sweet & Sour Pork (NEW!)
• Peng Tau Restaurant @ Pasir Puteh – One of the best/cheapest ‘zhu char’ restaurant (NEW!)
• Restoran Makanan Laut Yam Yam
• Restoran New Hiong Yuen
• Sin Fonzie Cafe @ Greentown
• Soon Fatt Restaurant and the 2010 Reunion Lunch (NEW!!)
  
• Sun Marpoh Restaurant – One of my personal favourite since I was small
• Sun Yeong Wai Roast Duck @ Ipoh Jaya
• Szechuan Restaurant @ Fair Park
• Unique Seafood Restaurant @ Sunway, Tambun
• Up & Up Restaurant @ Jalan Yang Kalsom – GREAT Curry Fish Head! (NEW!)
• Wong Koh Kee @ Old Town – At Concubine Lane, a charming outlet since the golden years.

Chinese Food (Vegetarian/Organic)

• Min Sin Yie (Vegetarian) Restaurant
• R U Lohas? Organic Cafe (closed)

Thai/Nyonya/Vietnamese Food

• 1919 Restaurant and Gallery
• Bee Gaik Nyonya Cuisine – Great catering services
• Black Canyon Coffee @ Jusco Kinta City
• C U Village – Halal Nyonya-Chinese Food (NEW!!)
• Koh Samui Restaurant – Thai Food
• Nakhon Pathom Special (Ah Wong’s Thai Food) (closed)
• Sukhotai Thai Food @ Sumto, Bercham
• Thai Xiang (Thai Food) @ Bercham (NEW!)
• VNam Kitchen Vietnamese Restaurant
• Yum Yum Restaurant – Nyonya/Thai/Chinese Food

Malay Food

• Restoran Ayam Penyet – AP @ De Garden Mall (NEW!!)
• Mee Rebus Ramli
• Nasi Padang @ Restoran Simpang Tiga
• Serai Sate Kajang
• Restoran Waritha @ Jalan Gopeng (Thai-Malay Food) (NEW!!)

Indian Food

• Kalai Curry House @ Old Town
• Nasi Kandar Pekan Lama, Old Town
• Nasi Vanggey (Nasi Ganja)
• NS Curry House (Banana Leaf Rice)
• Old Andersonian Cafeteria (Banana Leaf Rice)
• Pakeeza Indian Restaurant
• Samy Banana Leaf Rice @ Chemor
• Sri Ananda Bahwan Restaurant @ Old Town – Great Evening Special Menu (NEW!)
• Sri Asoka Corner (Banana Leaf Rice) @ Stadium Ipoh

Japanese Food

• Akamomiji Japanese Restaurant
• A Lai I Japanese Restaurant
• Cafe Takahashi @ Jusco Kinta City
• Kizuna Japanese Restaurant
• Sushi King @ Jusco Kinta City

Korean Food

• Korean Yea Won Restaurant
• Onix Jun Korean Restaurant aka Dae Jang Gum

This list is by no means exhaustive, and would be periodically updated. Feel free to drop your personal recommendations if you’re not seeing your personal favourite spots for delicious Ipoh food up there, and are dying to let me have a piece of your mind. J2Kfm is receptive towards all suggestions and feedback.

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Very down to earth motto printed on the menu, and the vibrant decor inside of Vnam Kitchen.

A new restaurant serving Vietnamese cuisine opened its door to the public recently in Ipoh, at the same spot occupied by the previous Soon Fatt Restaurant on Jalan Seenivasagam around Greentown. Click on the link for the post on the NEW Soon Fatt Restaurant.

Vnam Kitchen is in fact, owned and run by a couple who had been operating various stalls and outlets serving delectable and authentic Vietnamese cuisine in the Klang Valley, located in several food courts by the name of Vietnamese Cuisine.

Vietnamese Drip Coffee (RM4.50)

Since then, they’ve ’surrendered’ their premises in the Klang Valley to their sons, and subsequently moved to Ipoh and opened up a stall by the name of (what else?) Vietnamese Cuisine in Woolley Food City in Ipoh Garden.

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Banana Leaf Curry Rice – A luscious, complete meal. So is this Malaysian, Singaporean, or true-blue Indian?

Old Andersonian Club & Cafeteria serves authentic Moghul cuisine & Banana Leaf Rice, at the most unassuming location in Ipoh city. This cafeteria/canteen-like restaurant has been operating beside SMK Anderson (Anderson secondary school )on Jalan Hospital Ipoh for a good many years now. Facing the Sultan Iskandar roundabout connecting Jalan Hospital and Jalan Raja Musa Aziz, Old Andersonian Cafeteria is unlike your average spicier and robust South Indian eatery, but instead specializing on Moghul (North Indian) cuisine.

A classic of an outlet serving banana leaf curry rice. Notice the airy environment, with opened windows, shady trees at its own parking lot, and a spacious interior setting.

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Restoran Simpang Tiga is a famous chain of Nasi Padang restaurants originating from Indonesia, with five branches operating over in our neighbouring country. Nasi Padang resembles our very own Malay rice with dishes, or “Nasi Berlauk”, albeit with a little tweaks here and there. The Nasi Padang moniker actually pays tribute to the origin of the food;, whereby Padang is in fact a city in West Sumatra of Indonesia.

Clean & spacious ambience, with decor reminiscing of Minangkabau influences. Even most of the staff are from Indonesia. The Bergedil is a potato patty with minced meat, while Tempe Kacang is an addictive side dish, yet supposedly pose healthy benefits

Nasi Padang is the epitome of Minangkabau cuisine, but most of the dishes have already been incorporated into the array of Malay dishes commonly found in rice stalls all over Malaysia. The spread of dishes at Simpang Tiga was mind-boggling to an extent, with not less than 20 dishes being offered on the afternoon we patronized the outlet.

The huge space occupied by the restaurant (at least 4 shoplots in Greentown Square of Ipoh – a new business centre in the heart of the city) allows a large seating capacity, perfect for functions, or dinners to be held at the premise. The design of the restaurant exudes a traditional, rustic charm, with two main seating areas being Indoor (with air-conditioning) and Outdoor (al fresco style).

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