Ipoh food excursion

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Due to daddy will be away for a long 8 days including the weekends again, initially mummy planned to take a trip to KL on her own (as in without JoJo & I) tagging along with daddy’s business trip. But then she thought we should have a short family holiday together instead since daddy won’t be home during the next weekend. Therefore she planned out a very last minute food excursion to Ipoh for the weekend without realizing that it was a super peak holiday (due to King’s birthday) and almost all the decent hotels were fully booked. But thank God finally she managed to find a hotel – Heritage Ipoh which still has the higher category rooms available. And since we have Ah-ma with us, it would be more feasible for us to have the Suite room with an extra bed instead of booking 2 executive rooms.

We departed Penang on Sat 4/Jun around 11:30pm after our haircuts and took the trip easy as mummy said she just want to enjoy the trip with only eating, eating and eating, which was basically what we did since we arrived! Thank God we still managed to reach Ipoh and had our lunch at Kong Heng Coffee Shop before they closes for the day. However; the chicken koay teow and the pork innards satay were sold out. What a bummer! After lunch, we proceeded to check-in at the hotel. Overall, we were happy with the spacious room and the newly tiled and clean bathroom. But the aircond was a bit malfunction and it was very warm. Daddy complaint twice and was later told by the technician that due to the Suite was not commonly occupied, therefore they did not power on the compressor at usual hence causing the compressor to be a bit “under-power”. What a lame excuse eh?!

After freshened up, we proceeded to Kinta Parade for some shopping before we had our tea-break at the Chatter Kopitiam as it was raining heavily outside and JoJo had fallen asleep. After the rain had stop, we proceeded to Thong Sui Kai (aka Dessert Street) for our scrumptious dinner. I exceptionally love the mix-fruit ice that mummy ordered. It was so refreshing and colorful. We went back to the hotel and called it day after dinner. Oh, JoJo and I also had great fun playing in the bubble bath and jumping from bed to bed before we fell tiredly on the bed into z-land.

Ok, initial plan was to wake up at 6am on Sun so that we could go to the famous Foh San to have our tim sum breakfast. But, unfortunately, everyone was so tired that we overslept and only woke at 9am. Hihihi. But we still managed to go for our tim sum breakfast at Yoke Fook Moon which is few shops away from Foh San and was the 2nd recommended (next to Foh San) tim sum place by the locals and bloggers (yes, mummy did her “homework” well before the trip!). The steam tim sums were super yummy filled with fresh juicy succulent prawns. However; the deep friend ones were a bit on the “hard” side. We had a good meal and the price was very reasonable too for the quality of food. If you do not wish to go through the crazy fights for tables and food at Foh San but wanted the equal quality of food, mummy said YFM is highly recommended.

After such a heavy breakfast, mummy suggested that we go for a stroll at the nearby Ipoh Parade for some “exercise”. We went back to the hotel and took another round of bubble bath before we check-out at about 1pm+. Then lunch was at another very highly recommended seafood restaurant – Pusing Public Seafood Restaurant for another very scrumptious, high quality, good service and reasonable pricing meal. After lunch, we wanted to take-away the famous Aun Kheng Lim Ipoh Salted Chicken home as our dinner but unfortunately they were sold out and the next batch would take a 45mins wait. Mummy wouldn’t want to waste the time so daddy googled out that they have another branch located near the highways where we got our take-way with a breeze. At the same area, mummy also got some local specialty biscuits as souvenirs for her office colleagues. We finally reached home about 5pm which daddy predicted (our daddy clever hor?). In the evening, mummy cooked chicken rice (using Cosway DeliChef paste) to go with the salted chicken. Even JoJo had the same as dinner and gave her two thumbs up!

As you can see; this had really been a real “food excursion” which we ate from arrival and even until we are back home. Mummy said she dared not step up the weighing machine after the past 2 days. As for me, ah-ma said since I enjoyed Ipoh food so much, I should visit Ipoh more often. Mummy was saying I should marry an Ipoh boy instead. ISH mummy, don’t even have any idea about it ya!