IpOh-No!

Monday, December 14 – Jeez! We’re already two weeks into this vacation! Time flies. We’re now facing the last few days in Ipoh before we head off to KL for the second wedding ceremony (we leave Ipoh on Thursday). And we won’t return to Ipoh again this trip. So we’re coming down to crunch time in terms of satisfying our Ipoh food cravings.

What’s worse is that we need to do a run down to KL to pick up Junkii’s siblings on Tuesday – and while it will be nice to see them, that means we miss the opportunity for Lunch in Ipoh. So we’ve had to narrow our dining options. Good news is, we’vee pretty much agreed on which spots we need to hit:

• Today we went for Dim Sum again. We had some of the same dishes, but a few new ones as well. For instance “Butter rolls” – which looked like shredded wheat filled with sweet custard – and a steamed taro cake. Unfortunately, we neglected to get photos of both dishes. We also had a dumpling soup, which was tasty.


• Lor Mee was a must, at least for me. It made for a perfect light lunch today.


• Tomorrow we’re having Bak Kut Teh for breakfast before the drive to KL


• We still need to get back to Auntie’s stall for another feed of Char Kway Teow – so probably Wednesday.

Not sure what dinner will bring for the last remaining days, but we’ll keep you informed. All we know is that we’re having coconut wine this evening – a drink that was illegal in Ipoh until only recently (we had some on our last visit in 2005, but we had to go out of the city limits to do so!)