Seoul Garden, Ipoh

Went for a buffet steamboat BBQ dinner at Seoul Garden one Saturday. Erm, quite a small selection they have here compared to other outlets of the same kind elsewhere in Ipoh. Taste wise not too bad though. And......customers have a few choices of soup (for the steamboat) to choose from.
Seoul Garden is located inside Kinta City, Ipoh near the food court.

OIC Cafe 2, Ipoh

As a few friends have been raving about this cafe, we decided to go check the place out one weekend. Our orders of OIC kuey teow soup, OIC assam laksa, claypot low shi fun, grilled duck rice and OIC fried chicken arrrive without us having to wait too long. Erm.....don't understand why our friends were raving about this place. Or maybe we ordered the wrong items in the menu?????? The food is not outstanding actually. Can find it anywhere in Ipoh and tastier too. Could be that our taste and preference in food is different from other people??????? Anyway, if, unlike us, you are not fussy when it comes to how your food should taste, this place is worth visiting.
OIC Cafe 2 is located in Festival Walk at Jalan Medan Ipoh 1, Medan Ipoh, Ipoh.

Claypot low shi fun

OIC fried chicken

Ice kacang & Ribena fizzy

OIC assam laksa

OIC kuey teow soup

Grilled duck rice

Restoran Kam Wan (Aneka Selera), Ipoh

Here are some more of our favourite food at Aneka Selera (Restoran Kam Wan), more famously known as "Toong Ku Theng" in Ipoh Garden. Sorry about the blur blur pictures. My little phone is not very high tech.

Wooi Farn

Ikan Bakar

Steamed Fish

Swiss Garden Golf & Spa Resort Damai Laut, Lumut

On our last visit to Swiss Garden Golf & Spa Resort Damai Laut in Lumut, we had dinner at their Thai/Chinese restaurant. Why do I say Thai/Chinese restaurant? There are 2 names at the entrance (one on each side) but inside there is only one restaurant. The menu also looked like "conjoined twins" if you know what I mean, heh, heh. Anyway, the food is tasty. At least, the ones we ordered are tasty lah. Don't know about the rest. The sweet and sour fish fillet is yum, yum. Perfect combination of sweet and sour while the fish fillet itself is fresh and sweet. The fresh shrimp omelet comes with a generous helping of fresh shrimp. Goood. The claypot seafood beancurd is not to be sniffed at either. The seafood is fresh and the gravy is full of the taste of seafood. The portion is quite big too.

Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet

Fresh Shrimp Omelet

Claypot Seafood Beancurd

Sisters' Char Koay Teow, Penang

As we have been hearing how good Sisters' Char Koay Teow at Lam Heng Cafe is supposed to be we went to check it out on yet another of our trips to Penang. Errrr.......did we get the wrong place or did the lady behind the wok had an off day???? The char koay teow that came to our table was tasteless woh and no amount of crab meat can help it taste better. What a big let down. Can easily get better char koay teow elsewhere in Penang. Buutt......the prawn mee......it is one of the best we've ever tasted. The soup is full of flavour and very "prawny". Can easily drink the whole lot. Good till the last drop.
Lam Heng Cafe is a corner lot located at Jalan McAllister, Georgetown, Penang.

Very disappointing

A pleasant surprise

Kafe 78, Penang

Actually, we found this place by accident on one of our annual trips to Penang. We were feeling famished after a whole morning of tramping around Georgetown when we stumbled across this coffee shop. Deciding on the spot to have our lunch here we popped inside and ordered..........what else.........assam laksa and char koay teow lah. Err....... are we on a mission to taste all the assam laksa and char koay teow Penang has to offer? Hmmmmm????? We were pleasantly surprised to find that what is offered here are as good as the more famous ones in Penang. The char koay teow is tasty without being too oily.......more than enough "wok hei". The assam laksa is yummy, yum, yum. The assam soup is thick with bits and pieces of fish and just the correct degree of spicy and sour. Ho chiak.
Kafe 78 is located at the corner of Jalan Seri Bahari and Penang Road.

Sudut Nyonya, Kuala Kangsar

As we happened to be in Kuala Kangsar on fine Sunday, we decided to drop by Sudut Nyonya for lunch. Service is quick. Oooh, their fish head curry is yum, yum. Perfect mix of spiciness and very fragrant. We finished every last drop of the delicious curry. You can also opt to replace the fish head with fish fillet if you don't like fish head. The assam prawns are equally good. The prawns are fresh and the assam gravy that coated each prawn is delicious. The Kam Heong Prawns are not as good if you are going to compare with the assam prawns but still......... The beansprout with salted fish is another finger licking dish. The beansprouts are fat and juicy while the salted fish gave the dish a subtle fragrance. Good. Meanwhile the belacan potato shoots are not to be sniffed at either.
Sudut Nyonya is located in Taman Suria, Kuala Kangsar near the Kuala Kangsar Hospital.

Assam Prawns

Fish Head Curry

Belacan Potato Shoots

Kam Heong Prawns

Beansprouts with salted fish

ABC

Cendol

Red Hall, Ipoh

After a day trip to Pasir Panjang, we decided to dine at Red Hall in Taman Ipoh Boulevard Timur. Our orders of Grouper Fish Head Curry, Honey Ginger Chicken, Braised Beancurd and Sauteed Vegetables arrived quite quickly. Probably because there were only two other occupied tables before us. Ermmm.......the fish head curry has got to be the weirdest tasting curry we've ever come across. There is none of the fragrance that usually accompanies a curry dish and there is also a funny taste to it.......a taste we can't quite place. The honey ginger chicken is not bad though. The braised beancurd is only passable while the sauteed vegetables has a slightly bitter taste to it.......traces of pesticide on the vegetable??????? No repeat visit from us to this place.
Red Hall is a corner lot at Lebuh Perajurit 3/1, Taman Ipoh Boulevard Timur, Ipoh.

Honey Ginger Chicken

Grouper Fish Head Curry

Braised Beancurd

The Bus, Ipoh

Went to this bistro called The Bus for dinner one Sunday evening. We ordered 2 pastas and 2 pizzas with a chef salad. The pastas........namely spaghetti carbonara and spaghetti with broccoli, anchovies and basil......weell, they tasted the same to us. Can't tell the difference between the two. Taste wise....not too bad lah if you are not fussy. The pizzas....hmmmm.....the margarita, which is pizza with sliced tomatoes, basil, mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce is quite good. If they are more generous with the cheese, it could be better, I think. The other pizza....tuna and smoked salmon, which is pizza with onion, tuna flakes, smoked salmon, chili flakes and mozzarella cheese is passable. Can't quite taste the smoked salmon though. As for the chef salad........mix greens and chicken served with special dressing and garlic bread......just so, so only lah.
The Bus occupies two shoplots located at Jalan Lau Ek Ching, Ipoh.

Chef salad

Margarita

Tuna & smoked salmon

Spaghetti with broccoli, anchovies and basil

Spaghetti carbonara with a raw egg yolk

Greentown Seafood Restaurant, Ipoh

One very hot Sunday, we decided to pop into Greentown Seafood Restaurant for lunch. We ordered the sizzling beancurd with seafood and sauce, claypot curry prawns with mixed vegetables and homemade lemon chicken. Ooh...the claypot curry prawns was a hit with our group. Nice and juicy....the prawns, I mean. Lots of vegetables floating in the curry which was thick with just the right degree of spiciness. The sizzling beancurd came with a generous amount of seafood. Yummy, yummy. The homemade lemon chicken was good too. Crispy and juicy and boneless too. Now Mum is hankering to go back there again for the claypot curry prawns.
Greentown Seafood Restaurant is located in a bungalow along Jalan Sultan Abdul Jalil in Greentown, Ipoh.

Sis' order of tea for one

Claypot curry prawns with mixed vegetables

Homemade lemon chicken

Sizzling beancurd with seafood and sauce

Dessert for one

Bukit Merah Curry House, Ipoh

As I practically passed by this shop every day, I suggested breakfast there one weekend. We ordered roti canai kosong and roti sardine. The roti canai kosong was a little bit on the hard side but has a sweetish taste. Can be eaten on its own.The roti sardine, on the other hand, was soft and fluffy. Both came with dhal curry and fish curry. The dhal curry was good.........thick and slightly spicy. But the fish curry, while tasty, was on the watery side.
Bukit Merah Curry House is located along Jalan Lau Pak Khuan same row as AmBank near Fatimah Hospital.

Roti sardine

Roti kosong

Boston, Ipoh

Went to Boston for dinner one weekend. Err......not many customers around. Dad's yong chow fried rice is, according to him, not as good as before. The fish ball curry noodles is not too bad. Could be spicier, though. The stir fried flat noodles or wat tan hor is only just so, so. Something lacking here. Don't know what. The Szechuan fried rice, even though it is supposed to be spicy, is not spicy at all. A big disappointment for the person who ordered it. The standard of food here seems to be going down. Wonder why?
Anyway, Boston is located at De Garden in Medan Ipoh.

Red bean cendol and red bean soya cendol

Fish ball curry noodles

Yong chow fried rice

Iced Milo dino and ice-blended lemon blueberry

Stir-fried flat noodles or wat tan hor