Individual pot steamboat @ Aroi Steamboat, Bercham, Ipoh

Aroi steamboat located at Bercham, Ipoh (behind Bercham Trade Centre). I used to come here when I am still a kid. Came back to this place after a long while, nothing really changed, still good and same concept.

It is the steamboat with small individual pot. It comes with 2 types of soup base, tomyam or chicken broth. I personally like the tomyam's better.

Here is the mixed seafood set without crab. There is another set with crab. The seafood here is very fresh especially the prawns. Go order more prawns from ala-carte menu. 

It has fish fillet, squid, jelly fish, clam "abalone", lala (clam), prawns, enoki straw mushroom. Comes with noodles too. The set cost RM29+. 

Fishball set. Varieties of fishball. This is more economical, cost RM10.

Thin sliced beef as sukiyaki. Delicious with tomyam. Forgotten how much this cost :)

Fresh big prawns. It is sweet by itself. Lovely.

Each sets also comes with an egg.

Aroi Steamboat

305, Jalan Bercham,

Taman Desa Kencana,

Bercham, Ipoh.

016-5922967

Egg noodle, dry @ Old Town Kopitiam

New wantan noodle from old town. Noodle not as good as plus two, wantan not as good as ipoh's stadium stalls. Order it if you have no other choices.

Bee Giak Nyonya Cuisine @ Ipoh Garden South, Ipoh

Bee Giak Restaurant serve variety of nyonya food. Internal and external decorations looks like olden days chinese home.

There are sets and ala carte. We ordered medium set plus tong po meat (lean and fat pork belly stewed in thick sauce).

Curry fish. Pretty good.

Home made Taufu.

Ostrich meat with spring onion and leek.

Tong Po Meat (pork belly stewed in thick sauce). Very tasty. Will come back from more.

The pau which goes along with Tong Po Meat.

Cuttlefish dish.
The verdict is Bee Giak restaurant serves great food. I personally think that the service is good. However, the 2nd visit by my mother-in-law didn't get the good service I get and food ordered seems wrongly delivered.
If you dont mind the inconsistent service and go for food only, this is a place of choice.

Birthday Dinner @ Soon Fatt Restaurant, Ipoh

After a long break from posting due to loaded with work, here I post again. Taped-out the design today!! :)

There is a relatively new seafood restaurant just opened in Jln Kuala Kangsar, Ipoh. It is near the Ipoh Utara PLUS highway exit. I went to this restaurant couple of weeks ago in conjunction with V's mom birthday.

As usual, we started the meal with four seasons. It consists of fried scallop, salad prawn, stir fried vege and yam with char siew.

Second dish is sharkfin with crabmeat. They really mix a lot of crab meat into this soup. But it is a little bit too much or the crab meat isn't fresh, I can't be sure. It tasted fishy so I need to add some black vinegar into it. Hou Yau's sharkfin soup seems nicer :)

Yam basket is our third dish. V's mom is a fan of yam basket. This tasted okay. Not much to comment about. However, I do like the raddish crafted rose.

Fourth dish is this fried chicken with a crispy chicken skin. The name is cantonese is prosperous chicken. Dip this chicken with sour plum powder then serve.

Chinese doesn't like 4, so we ordered a fifth dish which is the stir-fried wanton noodle. Apparently is the restaurant's famous dish, however tasted normal only. Maybe because we are full? Or we tasted something better?

Oversea Restaurant's wantan noodle taste nice... hahaha... but I believe the price differs too.

Chee Cheong Fun @ Central Kopitiam, Ipoh

Central Kopitiam is located near Hotel Excelsior, Ipoh. Opposite Cowan Street Nga Choy Kai shop. The iced coffee here has a rich Ipoh's white coffee flavour. It is as good as old town's.

The best food here to me is the chee cheong fun. It is different from those in Penang or in KL. This is plain chee cheong fun with mushroom+meat sauce. Best served which chillies.

This uncle here originally sells chee cheong fun in Canning Garden, Ipoh at night opposite the church. I am one of his loyal supporter whereby I go there very frequent till I shifted away from Canning Garden. The chee cheong fun also bring back the old memories of my nanny cycle me to this stall at night.

I liked this chee cheong fun a lot. But V seems dislike it. Give it a try, though you may like it or dislike it.

Pork Noodle @ Cong Yin, Ipoh Garden South

I have been slower in posting on this blog as I have been busy lately with the new place. Please bear with me.

Cong Yin noodle house is located in Ipoh Garden South.

This noodle house only sells pork noodle. It comes in two variant, with abalone or without abalone. It comes with soup only. No dry noodle here. The one without cost RM5.

The reason it can survive or should I say still having good business despite the lack of choice is due to the pork noodle is really nice. I am not a fan of pork noodle, especially the one comes in soup, but I felt this is so good till I will go back to it again.

Give it a try. Guarantee no regrets.

Optionally you can order fried sui kau for appetizer. But frankly this is so-so only. V's better. Each cost RM1.

Wan Tan Mee (noodle) @ Stadium, Ipoh

Morning/Afternoon stadium's wan tan mee stall, the well-known Min Chee Wan Tan Mee. Available in pork, prawn or mixed wan tan. Some adds char siew (roast pork) to the noodle too. (Mee is Malaysian's word for noodle).

The Wan Tan Mee looks dull. However don't be fooled by its looks. It tasted great. Due to petrol price increases, I ordered plain wan tan mee without char siew (roast pork).

As for the wan tan (small meat dumpling), I prefer pork. If you like the wan tan a lot, you can order big bowl of wan tan as some surcharge too.

Complete the meal with Taiwan's Ai Yi Ping (Love Jade Ice). Actually it is lemon flavoured shaved ice with some jelly at the bottom of the bowl. Cooling drink for the hot malaysian weather.

Ipoh famous chicken koay teow plus bean sprout

If you are Malaysian, you probably already heard of Ipoh's most famous food, namely the chicken, bean sprout and koay teow. Local dialect call it Nga Choy Kai. The shop featuring here is Low Wong Nga Choy Kai located at the Ipoh city centre. There is a neighbouring shop selling the same food but I personally prefer this. I typically order bean sprout, steam chicken, pork balls and dry koay teow.

This shop also featured in one of the newspaper. Many Hong Kong and local artist visited this shop before. The price is also economical, for two person it cost less than RM20 and comes with herbal drinks. If you want to go and dont know the place, email me.