This is the season for that delightful Chinese tradition of welcoming the new year with “Loh Hei” or the Prosperity Toss, the tossing of various ingredients symbolic of auspicious qualities that we pray will come our way. Not only is the ritual…
I am often asked how I find all these places I write about and the only answer I can give is that I’m blessed with good friends. Not only good friends but Foodie friends. Friends who take me to places I could…
For some of my readers who may not know what Jelawat is, let me assure you that it’s worth the 35-minute drive to Gopeng for this special fish. Avid foodie that I may be, I am loathe to drive for…
Every time a new shophouse development pops up in Ipoh, we can be rest assured that a few new eateries will show up as well. Sure enough, with the new development of Jalan Centre Point, in these few rows of…
This is one restaurant that is best for the intrepid Foodie – one who will brook no obstacle, burn up the tyres in search of this backwoods simple Tai Chau restaurant that is open only for lunch somewhere in Batu…
By SeeFoon Chan-Koppen When two separate friends repeatedly urged me to check out Wan Loi Noodles, I had no choice but to comply. And I was certainly glad I did as this very conveniently located new eatery in Ipoh Garden South…
One can count on one hand the number of restaurants that serve superlative Chinese food with a consistency that only a few other restaurants in Ipoh have managed. Crab House is one of them. Opening less than four years ago, it was…
Being a foodie, I have a burning mission to encourage the flourishing of good food in Ipoh. As a food writer, I operate by a personal credo where I write only about dishes that I have tasted and are judged…
How often do you taste 21 dishes at one sitting? Well, a group of my friends succeeded recently when Eddie Foo, who is a serious Foodie and THE leading antique dealer in Ipoh, invited us for a meal at the…
Being the couch potato that I am, I am usually reluctant to travel far for my meals but when my Foodie friend Ginla Chew insisted that I go to Lawan Kuda for dinner, what choice did I have but to…