murakawa strawberry artifically flavoured bubble gum -rm$10

well i intended to write all abt my trip to ipoh but blogger crashed twice on me so ill jus post a little...









Machap pitstop



chicken drumstick, u noe the fried kind u get at the sch malay store?



barberqued fish, salt and seasonng over fish, slowy grilled to perfection.



ice ginger tea, teh tarik wif a strong ginger scent, keeps u warm and awake









Ipoh chicken horfun restuarnt (more like a coffee shop turn restuarnt where u sit by the road to eat)



ipoh hor fun in some kinda chicken soup, light and yet very tasty. goes in smooth like porriage.



bean sprouts in fish base sauce. the sprouts were 2 times as fat as the ones we hav at home!



chicken, lean and corn fead.



fishball n meatball, not salty like the ones we get at home.





Ipoh's "tong soei gai" (dessert street in cantonese)



beef noodles, tender beef well done wif a hint of herbal flavour yet not too salty.



beef balls these were different frm the ones above, they were tender as if the meat was not first minced, gave it that crunchy bouncy texture.



fried kway teow. unlike the ones in singapore (that ive had), u cld taste the rather distinctive flavours of every ingredient in the dish.



pork porridge the porriage was thick, smooth and well flavoured.



frog leg porridge same porriage wif loads of frog parts and it only cost abt $2.



rojak. im not a big fan of rojak but the famous Ipoh prawn paste lives up to its name.



cuttlefish with kang kong. well in comparison to the other fantastic dishes we had this one dint really stand out, although cuttle fish is always nice.



ba kut teh was really strong and very herbal and very salty... but still good.



Ipoh ice ka chang. topped wif peanuts, sugar syrup, coconut milk and a scoop of icecream. enough to hav me change my perspective of ice ka chang.





Ipoh dim sum eating house



here the dishes were handed out on push carts instead of at a counter. the food is excellent and we had so many different dishes i cant list them out... lets jus say we ordered 70% of the menu.





Ipoh's salt baked chicken stall



salt baked chicken is one of a kind. i remember eating fried chicken in singapore and always halfway through the meal ild start to detest the flavour of chicken. yet when my half was taken i desiered more. the skin is salty wif a faint scent of herbs. this wrapped arnd a juicy, not oily, tender and succulent lean chicken meat. really u gotta try it to noe how desirable it is.











Melaka town's satay stall.



satay. u noe how satay is nice when u gotta a large piece of fat stuck between the kebabs of meat? well this ones got all fat wif meat in between. also the satay sauce is one of a kind.



Melaka town's dessert shop.



tucked in a row of shop houses this stall offered the authentic melakan chendol. i love it! and i dont eat chendol anywhere else besides melaka...

brown caramel and coconut milk layered over ground ice sitting over pandan "worms" and the blackish cubes. the caramel makes the dessert. like nothing ive tasted b4, this brown sugar blend goes wif ice alone of mixed up wif the ingredients. -sweet-.



a little melakan coffee shop

our last place of meals, last but not anywhere near least.



Melakan fried prawn-fish ball noodle. remember the canteens at offices and work places in the 1980s in singapore? the fishball soup here has that flavour. dun be fooled by the name "fish ball noodle" is nothing like the ones in singapore. after all it had flour covered deep fried shrimp and tiny fish balls the size of "chickadees" (the tv snack) that were... well of a very different flavour.



Penang prawn mee. again its nothing like the prawn mee we hav in singapore. this one is in a spicy soup and again wif shrimp sized prawns. it dint taste extraordinary, more like a dish u cld eat over and over again. well subtle but good.



Melakan popiah. once agian the flavour of this wrap dint shout but it was tasty since prawn paste was good and it was packed wif turnip. unlike the ones i hav eaten this popiah was rather dry and not soggy from sauce. ild prefer the dry one any day.











we went home after that meal which concluded our weekend to Ipoh.



ive got bubble gum!