Ipoh Food Tasting Trip

Ipoh is located in Perak, a state in Malaysia. That is a nice place full with minerals, good source of mineral water, nice cave and mountains. Because of its strategic location with lots of natural minerals, the place is famous with good food especially for bean sprouts.

The outlook for the bean sprout from Ipoh is it is "fat and short". It looks very different from those I can find in the local market, which look "long and slim". According to the local, it is because they has use the good water that full of minerals to grow the bean sprouts and make it so special and different from the rest. It tastes so rich and fresh. 

The famous dish is called "Bean sprouts chicken". It means the chicken is sewrved together with bean sprouts. There are many restaurants selling this signature dish in Ipoh. This is one of the restaurants that we decided to dine in. Here we ordered the famous "Bean sprouts chicken". It comes in 2 servings, one is a plate of bean sprouts and another is a plate if chicken.

As you can see, the bean sprout is look really nice, "strong and fit".. haha.. Tell you what, it taste very nice too, every bean sprout is so rich and "juicy"... not sure that is the correct description... Do correct me :)

The chicken looks normal for me and I actually find it is too "oily", as it served with too much oil. The chicken is a bit fat too.. So I eat more bean sprout than the chicken on that meal. Another special dish from Ipoh is called "Ipoh Hor Fun". It is so special maybe due to the good source of water used to make this "hor Fun".. I guess. It is indeed much smooth in texture than the "hor fun" from other places.. Thumb up!

After the meal, we had some desert at the famous "dau fu fa" in Ipoh. The name for soy bean custard or bean curd jelly in Cantonese. According to the local, the "tau fu fa" from this stall is the smoothest in Ipoh. I have not try the rest of the stalls so I can't commend much about whether it is the best but indeed it is quite smooth in texture. Thumb up for this too, I have consumed 2 bowl of the soy bean curd :), as the serving is pretty small, just about half of a normal rice bowl. But we can see there are many people buying from this stall but most people there didn't queue up.

If you have a chance to be there, just try it. Overall, it is a nice place for food. I have yet to explore to the caves in Ipoh, will share with you all if I have any chance to travel to those caves in the future.