Yes another departure from the norm.
Over the years we have been slowly exploring the charming town of Ipoh for good eats.
Still I think their noodles (yellow noodles:hard,bleaugh ..rat tail noodles and.hor fun: stinks of brown rice husk)are really one of the baddest in the country and possibly the world only they themselves don't know it yet.
Most times I drink the soup and discard the noodles.
Whatever Ipoh people may brag about their noodles,most of it is really unpalatable if you ask me.
It took us years to discover our own little gems even at off the beat paths where one would least expect to find great food.I attribute this to the water over here.Can't be anything else.
The hawkers and some hotel operators here aren't really big on presentation.
Most times the food looks like shit but tastes like heaven.
Noodles may look like Penang's but feels like air dried hardened Playdough and if you were to swallow it,you might feel like an anaconda devouring dry crooked,stinky fermented spaghetti.
Personally we've had many peeves,in particular,that cluster of famous chicken rice/horfun stalls in the centre of town which I found to be overcrowded chaotic hype,idol worshipped hongkong stars pictures rather than substance.
Another time I had what I call condom soup which was actually a kind of rubbery cream coloured pre soaked urchin I think,but it got more disgusting the more I ate cos it looked like the nyonya deep fried pig skin but tasted like chewing many mini foamy bathroom sponges.
I call it condom soup cos it really does resemble tiny floating condoms in one bowl of diluted sperm soup.
Gross out.Totally.Yea.
This tale below is the one that will be repeated to eternity within our family.
One night we made one detour here to this lively area just behind Tesco/Jusco adjacent to the North South Expressway.
I just want to tell you unsuspecting and innocent Penangites a few things.
If you ever decide to come and stop here for a bite,please take note of the following
Over the years we have been slowly exploring the charming town of Ipoh for good eats.
Still I think their noodles (yellow noodles:hard,bleaugh ..rat tail noodles and.hor fun: stinks of brown rice husk)are really one of the baddest in the country and possibly the world only they themselves don't know it yet.
Most times I drink the soup and discard the noodles.
Whatever Ipoh people may brag about their noodles,most of it is really unpalatable if you ask me.
It took us years to discover our own little gems even at off the beat paths where one would least expect to find great food.I attribute this to the water over here.Can't be anything else.
The hawkers and some hotel operators here aren't really big on presentation.
Most times the food looks like shit but tastes like heaven.
Noodles may look like Penang's but feels like air dried hardened Playdough and if you were to swallow it,you might feel like an anaconda devouring dry crooked,stinky fermented spaghetti.
Personally we've had many peeves,in particular,that cluster of famous chicken rice/horfun stalls in the centre of town which I found to be overcrowded chaotic hype,idol worshipped hongkong stars pictures rather than substance.
Another time I had what I call condom soup which was actually a kind of rubbery cream coloured pre soaked urchin I think,but it got more disgusting the more I ate cos it looked like the nyonya deep fried pig skin but tasted like chewing many mini foamy bathroom sponges.
I call it condom soup cos it really does resemble tiny floating condoms in one bowl of diluted sperm soup.
Gross out.Totally.Yea.
This tale below is the one that will be repeated to eternity within our family.
One night we made one detour here to this lively area just behind Tesco/Jusco adjacent to the North South Expressway.
I just want to tell you unsuspecting and innocent Penangites a few things.
If you ever decide to come and stop here for a bite,please take note of the following
- If you intend to have dinner here,do not eat your breakfast,lunch and dinner 3 days before arrival
- Cos this place was designed to fatten up people
- The waiters are huge.their male customers fat.Thinner men come here to hangout while they have some jumbo drinks and a plate of appetizers only.Smart buggers.
- Their skinny female customers can polish off one entire gargantuan serving without sharing a plate like our Penang table sluts.
- The mixed grill is really,really,really bad compared to Penang
- The mixed grill is super,chunky,huge.gigantic,enormous.It starts off as one large murtabak sized slab of beef,on top of a big marble chunk of lamb,followed by a barbarians portion of chicken and more underneath(at this point my dear lost his memory and so did I,so although there were more ingredients we really cannot recall)
- The mixed grill can feed an entire Penang family of 7 for a week(ok I am exaggerating here,make that 2 days )
- The Ye Olde Spring Chicken is actually a whole Lea and Perrin marinated and deep fried medium sized chicken(scream! how to finish?) that bounces back like Pantene coated chicken when the waiter places it down in front of you.I swear it is true.I saw it bounce ok? Huhuhuhu.
- The children's set is as big as Dome's large breakfast set plus a soup and adult sized drink.Just what did we get ourselves into?
- Their regular drinks never seem to end so don't make the mistake of ordering the Jumbo size.You will have nightmares of drowning fruit in a glacial floodgate.
- NOBODY shares ONE dish among four persons in Ipoh so don't disgrace us here.Choose from the snack menu if you must but avoid ordering the cute looking potato prawns.It is downright awful!
- there is nothing English about their dishes.You get a smorgasboard of ipoh,thai,western etc etc instead.Only their name,fries,potatoes and L&P sauce usage makes them think they are Ye Olde English.
- You place your order hongkie style.Pencil,paper,number,tick.
