Motormouth From Ipoh – Asian Food & Travel Blog

Last weekend was almost a too ideal one with the occasional crowd hankering for bites at the usual coffee shops during breakfast hours, surge in traffic (both on the roads and in shopping centres) thanks to the lingering effect of Raya, and culminated in a wedding feast at Kam Ling Restaurant in Kampar, a three-storeys grand structure which no doubt injects some glitters to the lacklustre rows of shophouses along Jalan Idris in Kampar old town.

PAN MEE SOUP – Wriggly, uneven surfaces and bouncy strands of flat flour noodles made from a combination of wheat flour and eggs, blanched slightly then cooked in a wholesome and sweet broth with a distinctive umami flavour from the anchovies.

After reading about and hearing repeated positive comments on this particular pan mee stall opposite of what-should-be THE Pan Mee Specialist in Ipoh, parked in a lot belonging to Kafe Tim coffee shop. I have written about the curry mee from Kafe Tim once, but not a version that had bowled me over (pun intended). So I never returned for the other hawker fares since.

Let’s set things straight before I continue; I am NOT a fan of Pan Mee. Thus I seldom venture all out to try the various pan mee stalls (but more or less selling the same thing) in Ipoh. The recent Peking Pan Mee outing was partly due to the hype surrounding it, coupled with the array of interesting choices of pan mee.

Wanna know how this nameless, unpretentious stall fared against the like of Peking Pan Mee which is ironically directly facing this particular stall in review? Read on to find out ….. Read the rest of this entry »