3 days trip to Penang and Ipoh
4 of us go on a 3 days makan trip from KL -> Penang -> Ipoh -> KL. We left KL on Sunday 3pm and arrived back in KL at 3pm Tuesdays, so technically it is a 48 hours trip 🙂 KL->Penang is about 350km, roughly 4.5 hours drive.
Wanted to go to Funny Mountain, but when we reach there on Sunday 5pmish, it was either closed or already finished selling 🙁 miss having their super nice tau fu far and soya bean drink.
100 photos ahead…
Gee Seng in Bukit Tambun (30km to Penang). It is located at the very end of a stretch of road in Bukit Tambun, passing by some dimly litted residential houses. We reach there 7:30pm just in time for dinner.
Lots of customers on a Sunday night
Kam Heong LaLa, RM6 for a small portion
Chicken satay, RM0.70 each
very yummy and fresh tasting octopus tentacles, only RM6
Steamed Scallop on half shell, RM11
Giant Mantis prawn, naturally sweet flesh, RM39. Above is one mantis prawn cut to four pieces and some other flesh fried with garlic and pepper
Flower crab, RM23, natural sweet and very delicious
Spiky shells, RM6, very big and nice
Next stop, Bee Hooi coffee house restaurant in Pulau Tikus
CKT stall
Fried oyster ommelette
Above is a smallest portion for RM6, satisfyingly slightly gooey and yummy big oyster
Char Kuey Tiaw, i find this just so so, not flavorful enough
Po piah, okay
Gee Seng’s boiled octopus taste much better
Presgrave Road 888 Hokkien Mee located in Heng Kee Restaurant’s compound
big slab of roast pork
Hokkien Mee with Vit’s noodle (+ noodle and all additional topping ie fish ball, roast pork, pig intestine, braised egg, pork ribs), RM8.60, very flavorful soup, must try
Our stay in Holiday Inn Batu Feringghi booked through Agoda, RM260(all taxes included) for a twin-double bed room, breakfast not included. The hotel is just next to the beach accessible from swimming pool area.
Holiday Inn Resort
Chairs next to the sandy beach
View of hotel from beach area
Don’t know what are those jelly like balls all over the beach
The Ship restaurant in Batu Ferringhi which is literally shaped as a ship just across from our hotel.
First meal: Sri Weld Food Court Nasi Lemak
in total 6 types of nasi lemak, all priced at RM1.50 per packet (chicken, fried fish, salted fish, prawn, squid)
Packing the nasi lemak
Ingredients: Prawn, Fried Fish, Egg Halves, Salted Fish, small squid and sambal
All 6 of them, tasty, the sambal is not too spicy or sweet
with squid sambal
fried fish
Salted Fish and Egg
Prawn
Walking distance away to Lam Ah Coffee Shop(junction between Beach Street and Chulia Street) for famous beef noodle soup
Beef Soup Koay Teow manned by a pretty lady boss
Beef tripe, tendons etc
Yummy soup, love the gelatinuous beef tendons, RM9 each bowl(with additions of beef tendons)
Crispy style oyster omelette (Or Chien) available in Lam Ah, find it oily 😛
Not in picture also they serving fresh white nutmeg juice here.
We wanted to try Ah Leng Char Koay Teow in Khoon Hiang Cafe near Jalan Dato Keramat/Jalan Dunlop intersection, but it was closed on a Monday?!
Joez coconut jelly made without any additives, but the jelly is form when the jelly is baked and later cooled, and thus jelly is formed within the coconut, this jelly can be found in KL Sentral as well.
Coconut Jelly
Price list, RM4 each
Apom Guan on Burmah Road near Union Primary School
The batter seems to be mixed with bits of shredded coconut. This pancake is topped with banana and sweet corn, very fluffy and yummy~~
Next to a school
Him Heang is just diagonally across the road from Apom Guan
Padang brown famous po piah with prawn and crab meat for only RM2.50 each
One side of this food court is filled with chinese food stalls
The other side are malay food stalls
This is the stall
We were there too early, best to be there at 2:30pm onwards else you might risk having to wait for them to bring all the ingredients here using a bicycle like vehicle. And not to come too late else their crabmeat be finished.
Crab meat and prawn!
Very yummy, there are lots of crabmeat bits in it, and the gravy which soak the po piah have crab taste, only RM2.50 each, must try
Assam laksa stall in padang brown can be skipped, not tasty
Kek Seng coffee shop along Penang Road
Kek Seng Char Koay Tiaw Stall
laksa stall
po piah stall
Table didn’t order drinks will be charge RM0.40?
love this assam laksa, sourish and very tasty
Their famous Ice Kacang ABC topped with jelly and homemade durian ice cream
After tasting padang brown’s po piah, this tasted mediocre
Char Koay Teow in Kek Seng, love this flavorful and yummy plate of noodles, must try
Wanted to try Pengkalan Weld O-Kio(Ai Yu Bing jelly) and assam laksa, but it was closed on Monday, went to this fried banana stall opposite instead
Yummy fried banana
Paya Terubong’s Te Chang You Tiao Wang, this place is near to Air Itam Assam Laksa place
menu
putting mayo into the fried chinese you tiao
From top: tuna, chicken floss and sausage. I find them not tasty, just for the “novelty” of eating really long chinese fried crullers.
We reach Ipoh on Monday night around 8pm in time for dinner in Onn Kee, as the more famous Lou Wong is closed on a Monday night, looks like quite a well restaurant we wanted to dine in are closed on Mondays or could it be some chinese festival, it is quite strange for Ipoh Dessert street to be closed on Monday as well.
Chicken feet
Fish ball and pork balls
Tuesday morning dim sum in Yoke Fook Moon in Ipoh’s dim sum street (Foh San, Ming Court and Yoke Fook Moon all in the same street)
Yummy Cheong Fun
fried cheese dumpling is just ok
Porridge
Har Kaw(Shrimp dumpling) and Siew Mai are obligatory dim sum
Fried Yam Puff
Super huge Big Pau, not nice as it is too big and too much meat(chicken and pork)
Xiao Long Bao
Yummy Fried Radish Cake, slightly gluey texture with crispy edges
Char Siew Pau (caramelised pork bun)
prawn cruller wrapped in cheong fun, surprisingly quite food
One of their specials here: fish noodle with pig stomach soup, pepperish
Beef balls are too floury
JJ Cakes & Swissrolls in Ipoh
Rows of fridge filled with all different flavors of swissrolls
even durian flavor
Price list
Tried one of their best seller: “Four Heavenly Kings” ie carrot, spinach etc filled with nutty cream cheese fillings. I find their cream cheese fillings have quite a bit of butter in it which makes it taste a bit like buttercream, would prefer the fillings to be less buttery. But if you chill the swissrolls well, the fillings will be firmer and feel less buttery
Sin Yoon Loong coffeshop for ipoh coffee and toast, above is cheong fun with mushroom sauce, just ok
Steamed Creme Caramel, cold and nice in Sin Yoon Loong coffee shop, Ipoh
All in all, we spent RM290 each (all inclusive, hotel, toll, food) for a food-packed makan trip.
Funny Mountain Soya Drink, Ipoh (must try)
GPS: N04′ 35.690 E101′ 05.057
Business hour: 10:30am till finish around 6pm (Closed Tuesday)
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Gee Seng Seafood Restaurant (must try)
Address: 860, Bagan Bukit Tambun, 14110 Simpang Ampat, S.P.S.
Business hour: for dinner
GPS: N 5.27122 E 100.44338
Telephone: 04-588 7220
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Bee Hooi Kopitiam
Address: Jalan Burma, Pulau Tikus (across from Belissa Row)
Business hour: 6pm-10pm (closed on Tuesdays)
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I come, I see, I Hunt, I Chiak
Relections of Yesterday, TODAY & Tomorrow
888 Hokkien Mee (Hing Kee Restaurant) (must try)
Address: Lebuh Presgrave (Gat Lebuh Presgrave)
GPS: N 5.41023 E100.33230
Business hour: 5pm – midnight
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Ali Nasi Lemak in Sri Weld Food Court
Address: Along Beach Street aka Lebuh Pantai
GPS: N 5′ 25.080 E 100′ 20.574
Business hour: 6:30am onwards (Mon-Sat, Closed Sunday and Public Holidays)
Telephone: 016-4070 717
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Lam Ah Coffee Shop (Beef Noodle)
Address: Junction between Beach and Chulia, just across from a fire station
GPS: N 5′ 24.925 E 100′ 20.363
Business hour: 10:30am – 4:30pm (Closed Sunday and Public Holidays)
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Joez Coconut Jelly (must try)
Address: Jalan Dato Keramat
GPS: N 5′ 24.719” E 100′ 19.393″
Business hour: 9am – 8pm
Website: Joez Coconut
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Simon Says (cocount jelly available in KL Sentral)
Nikel Khor (kiosk in KL Sentral)
Apom Guan (must try)
Address: Jalan Burmah, somewhere diagonally across from Him Heang
GPS: N 5′ 25.386 E 100′ 19.324
Business hour(Guan): 10:00am-6:30pm
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Vkeong on Apom Chooi (near Apom Guan)
Him Heang Tau Sar Piah
Address: 162-A, Jalan Burma, 10050, Penang, Malaysia
Telephone: 604-228 6129 or 04-228 6130
GPS: N 5.42384 E 100.32121
Business hour: 8:30am – 5pm (Mon-Sat, closed on Sunday)
Padang Brown Seafood Po Piah
Address: Dato Keramat
GPS: N 5′ 24.861 E 100′ 19.003
Business hour: 2:30pm-5pm (Closed Thursday)
Kek Seng Restaurant
Address: Penang Road
GPS: N 5′ 24.974 E 100′ 19.759
Business hour: 11am – 4:30pm
Paya Terubong Long Chinese Crullers – Te Chang You Tiao Wang
Address: Paya Terubong, near Air Itam Assam Laksa
GPS: 5′ 23.657 100′ 16.784 OR N 5′ 24.665 E 100′ 19.835
Business Hour: 6am-6pm (closed alternate Tuesday)
Telephone: 016-433 7301
Onn Kee Restaurant (Tauge Ayam Kue Tiau)
Address: 48,51&53, Jalan Yau Tet Shin, 30300, Ipoh, Perak
Telephone: 012-5300 888 or 012-5566 669 or 019-5646 161
Yoke Fook Moon Hong Kong Tim Sum
Address: 67-69, Jalan Leong Sin Nam, 30300, Ipoh (next to Foh San)
Telephone: 05-2416 589
Business hour: 6am-1pm
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JJ Cakes & Swissrolls
Address: 36, Jalan Chung Thye Phin, 30250, Ipoh, Perak
GPS: N 4.58602 E 101.08653
Business Hour: 9am-9pm(Monday-Saturday); 9am-8pm(Sunday)
Telephone: 016-419 5796 or 05-241 5796
Website: JJ Cakes
Other Food Places we didn’t managed to try:
Ah Leng Char Koay Teow
Address: Khoon Hiang Cafe, Jalan Dato Keramat
GPS: N 5′ 24” 46.4”’ E 100′ 19” 09.9”’
Business hour: 8am – 2pm (Closed Tues/Thurs)
Balik Pulau Assam Laksa – Nan Guang Coffee Shop
Address: T-junction of Jalan Tun Sardon and Jalan Balik Pulau
Business hour: 10am-5pm (closed Wednesday)
Air Itam Assam Laksa
Business hour: 11am – 3pm (Closed Wed, better go before noon to skip crowd)
Lorong Seratus Tahun Curry Mee
GPS: N5.41524 E100.32248
Tanjung Bungah Fried Banana fritters (banana, yam, cempedak, mashed banana)
Business hour: noon – 6pm
Address: Jalan Chan Siew Teong. According to What2See, after Tanjung Bungah police station traffic light
GPS: 5″ 2757.4′ 100″ 1647.1′
Phone: 019-446 7343 or 012-423 6499
Note: White van on the way to feringhi, left hand side
Penang Siam Road CKT
Address: End of Siam Road(sometimes in Anson Road)
Business hour: 3pm-7:30pm (Mon-Fri, sometimes closed on Mondays)
Address: End of Siam Road
GPS Coordinates: N5 24.925 E100 19.219
Yi Garden Cafe (Charcoal Oyster, Wanton, Venison Pan Mee)
Address: between Macalister Road and Lorong Selamat
GPS: N 5′ 24.980 E 100′ 19.458
Business hour: 6pm – 10:30pm (closed on Sunday)
De Tai Thong dim sum
Address: 45 Cintra Street, 10100 Penang
Business hour: 6am till 12pm (open daily and closed on every alternate Mondays)
Lorong Seratus Tahun Curry Mee
Address: Lorong Seratus Tahun
GPS: 5.415243 100.322485
Business hour: 7:30am – 2pm (Closed Thursday)
Pengkalan Weld Assam Laksa (Ai-Yu-Bing dessert)
Address: Just next to Penang Tua Pui Curry Mee Stall
Business hour: 11:30-early evening (closed on Mondays)
Dessert Street (Tong Sui Street)
Address: near Sam Tet High school
GPS: N 4′ 35.746′ E 101′ 5.242′
Other Interesting Post on Penang/Ipoh:
4 types of oyster omelette in Penang
Paramount Hotel (only RM120 for a twin-double bed room), near town center GPS to Paramount Hotel: N 5.42624 E 100.32610
FairParkHotel
Address: No85, Jalan Kamaruddin Isa, 31400, Ipoh, Perak
GPS: 4′ 36.372′ E101′ 5.644′
Info: Check in time 3pm, check out time noon, WIFI & Astro in all rooms, complimentary 2 bottle water each day
Telephone: 605-548-8666
Website: Fair Park Hotel Ipoh
