ipoh mari... ipoh ipoh mari...

20/09/2008 - 7.00am

ring~~~~~~ 'stupid alarm!! what's the time now?? don't you know today is saturday??'

while getting myself awake, my mind played back to yesterday night, when i was packing my things for the makan-makan trip to ipoh. aah... my god, i was late. ipoh, please wait for me...

oh, s**t!! i needed to collect my medical report from pathlab. ipoh, please wait for me...

grrhh... hungry : (
gotta have my breakfast in imbi market first. ipoh, please wait for me...

10.00am - arrived at office in excitement. straightaway we jumped into cars and off we left for ipoh. we drove, drove, drove and drove... ipoh, please wait for us...

12.30pm - at last we reached ipoh. we gathered at the first mcD outlet after the toll plaza for our ipohan colleague a.k.a. tour guide. after waited for a while, she came with her husband and the assistant tour guide - her brother. eik... sorry, the tour guide was actually the brother and the ipohan colleague was only the assistant. who cared anyway... we came for food :pp

1st ding - egg tart from simee market. tasted a little similar with tong kee egg tart. but this was bigger in size. hmm... the layers were not as crispy as tong kee's. rated 2 out of 5.

2nd ding - yong tau foo. cheap, tasty but a little too oily. variety of choices, even more than kl's. the clear soup was bitter gourd soup - added points. rated 3 out of 5.

3rd ding - sweet peanut porridge and mua ci. recommended by ho chak a little while ago (perhaps, in season 1. the label looked old :pp). 'i want a bowl of black sesame porridge, please'. 'no black sesame porridge wo'. 'haa... sold out ar? it is stated here that you sell this wo... not meh?' 'it's ma zi wo...'. (oopps... i thought zi ma (sesame). oh, it was ma zi (mua ci). cheh...) 'ok lah... peanut sweet porridge-lah then'. slurp... wow wow wow... ding ding ding... marvelous!!! very smooth... so tasty. not too sweet, tasted just nice. yum yum... yummy... : ) rated 3.5 out of 5.

arrived at our rented condo in bercham. this new area was so peaceful and i found it very convenient. a kindergarten at a side, tesco extra nearby, nice garden view and well facilitated with swimming pools and park.

3 rooms, a kitchen, 2 shower rooms, fully furnished and air-conditioned. not bad, huh...?? good... very comfortable. felt like staying at home. zzz... slept for a little while, when people around me busy discussing who and who in which and which room. for me, whatever... so long as i got myself a place to sleep - not in the toilet or kitchen, please... :pp

moving out from the house again to all the caves in ipoh. first, we went to the kek look tong. then to the ling sen tong, nam tin tong and sam poh tong. we reached the sam poh tong a little later - it had closed for visitors. hmmm... never mind. we came for makan-makan, not for the caves. these caves looked more or less the same. not as interesting as the upcoming dish. kekeke...

while waiting for the dinner time, we went shopping for locals at the yee hup biscuits. the shop was just outside the sam poh tong. didn't shop much this time - i'm not interested in biscuits. moreover, my heart had already flew to the...

4th ding - steamed chicken with beansprout and hor fun / rice. we were seated in 2 different tables due to space constraint. 7 pax & 8 pax. our table of 8 pax ordered a whole steamed chicken (half kampung chicken and half pasar chicken), beansprout, special roasted pork with bbq sauce (char siu), meat & fish balls and hor fun / rice. these were originated from ipoh and they were really belong to ipoh. i couldn't taste any in kl which tasted as nice as these in ipoh. really special. tasty tasty tasty.... rated 4 out of 5.

we needed some exercise to digest today's input. we had too much nice food today. the best exercise ever - shopping for locals... AGAIN. well, nothing much we could do... talking about night time entertainment and night spots, ipoh is too faraway from kl. ipoh is much more boring than kl, i'd say.

we had another place to go than shopping for locals. yeah, right... we shopped in ipoh parade this round. haa... gosh... okay okay... go go go!!! (unwillingly... :pp)

after a tiring walkaround - shopping shopping and shopping... we went for the...

5th ding - supper in tong sui street. eik... no tong sui geh... instead, i got myself a can of cola and half plate of fried hor fun. not bad not bad but it was the 'baddest' in the day. rated 1 out of 5. didn't manage to taste the beef noodle. the boss was too bossy to serve the noodle at another stall. cheh...!! i skip you, beef noodle!! don't be so c**ky, okay... no big deal not to eat you!!

back to condo, got myself ready to bed, energizing myself for tomorrow eating outs.
zzz~~~


21/09/2008 - 7.00am

'good morning everyone~~' got myself ready in minutes, superb faster than ever. cos... it was dim sum time!!!

6th ding - dim sum at foh san biscuits. hmm... sounded weird, a bakery selling dim sum. who cared, who cared, who cared... tie kuan yin - yeah~~~ a must!! char siu bao - yeah! siu mai - yeah! yu mai - yeah! fried choon guen - yeah! wow... eat eat eat eat and eat...

when i was about to slurp the stuffed tau fu - hmm... it smelt so... good. smelt like tau fu... yeah, i know... which kinda tau fu that doesn't smell like tau fu?? but this was different. the smell was so strong, even i could taste the tau fu before it got into my mouth. at the moment i put that piece of tau fu into my mouth... gosh... ding ding ding ding ding... marvelous, bravo, superb, ho chak, hou sik, hao chi dao... i was so amazed, how could this taste so nice... the feeling was right from the heart. it made me melt, man... : ) rated for this particular stuffed tau fu - 5 out of 5 - excellent, 100% pure tau fu, smelt and tasted nice.

ha gao - not cooked yet. wait a while-lah. ha gao pls - hold on, let me see if there is any left. ha gao - sold out, now cooking. (hands up) ha gao - no more already. now cooking. wait a while-lah. (standing up) ha gao - cooking. (waiting at the stall) ha gao - no more wo. haa... no more? don't bluff-lah. how could this be? waited for the whole morning for ha gao and the waitress said there was nothing left. so disappointed... : (

wait... the 'no more' was for takeaway. ha gao was still available for eating in... more to go... and immediately, there was a plate of ha gao on the table. it was so approaching - 'come-lah, eat me-lah, i taste as good as the tau fu...'

chiap... yum yum yum... wow... it really tasted as good as the tau fu. no ha goa in kl tasted as good as this, not even from the best dim sum restaurant in kl. the crystalite prawns were so fresh and... and... and... wah, song-lah!! syiok-nya... the feeling was like - yes-lah!!! rated 5 out of 5.

7th ding - sweet beancurd at funny mountain. there was only 1 phrase to describe this dessert - melt in the mouth. wooh... another song, syiok, yes, whatsoever... i have lost of words... didn't know how to describe further. tasted so nice... although we had to eat in the car (no more seats in the shop), we were still happy - got what we wanted to eat, for sure no regrets, no matter what. i was... so hang fook... so lerm... mmm... so nice : )

we headed back to kl after the dessert. i was so full with satisfaction and my stomach almost burst with nice, tasty food. what a wonderful and fruitful trip... for sure, i will miss ipoh very much...