Tucked away at the back of the sprawling Kampar Club is Kampar Home Cuisine. The restaurant has been there a long time but recently there was a change in management and under the helm of the new team and the chef, Fong…
It’s easy to miss V-Nest as you drive along Jalan Bijeh Timah on the way to Sin Yoon Loong or Nam Heong, the two ‘temples’ of white coffee. Yet this double shop lot with its understated signage actually stands out in this busy street…
Some of us have jaded palates. I admit to being one of them. It’s not that I am ungrateful when my friends invite me for roast suckling pig, Tualang prawns or fresh crabs. I enjoy them thoroughly but often I…
I am one of those Foodies who hates doing two things for food: queuing (unlike my compatriots in Singapore who since the awarding of a Michelin star to two food stalls, will happily queue an hour or more to sample…
It’s amazing what my notoriety as a food reviewer can bring. Here I was sitting one day in Crab House, my favourite Chinese restaurant when Fanny, the female half of the proprietorship told me that she had a brother a…
As a Foodie and food critic, I am often asked which is my favourite cuisine and inevitably my reply is “wherever my taste yearnings take me”. However if I’m ever to sustain my insatiable craving for variety and nuances in…
My first fish head curry on arriving in Ipoh more than 20 years ago was at the Up and Up restaurant on Jalan Yang Kalsom. Then I used to traipse up the dingy steps or take the rickety lift to the top…
It’s known as ‘Tong Sui Gai’ or sweet soup Street, a regular small thoroughfare by day which transforms into a veritable cornucopia of foodie delights by night. Very popular in days gone by, ‘Tong Sui Gai’ is quieter now, foodies having found…
Chinese Foodies of my acquaintance have generally clung to the belief that pork-free restaurants are somehow lagging behind in the taste department when compared to their pork-serving counterparts and that a Chinese meal without pork is like cooking without soya…
I have been meaning to revisit the almost ‘antique’ Teo Chiew Restaurant that I wrote about in the 16 November 2013 issue of Ipoh Echo but alas, contrary to what people believe and the question I am asked most “how…