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Perak:Thean Chun (天津茶室)
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Thean Chun (天津茶室) and Kong Heng (光兴茶室) are definitely members of Ipoh hall of fame of restaurant. These two restaurants are located side by side inside the Old town. Visitor definitely can find out the reason why they can become the representative of Ipoh restaurant from the original old-style interior to the remarkable food taste.
The interior design of these restaurants alone is able to tell the story of old days of Ipoh. The restaurant walls are in lined with large old mirrors, the chairs and tables are wooden made with marble on top, the street between two buildings is trying to tell the story of British colonel. Although the interior design is giving the visitors an old days feeling, the restaurants are still very energetic.
While stepping into the restaurants, the first thing that would comes to most visitor's mind is, it's a tussle for tables. Sometimes even when there were already a lot of people standing inside and waiting for a seat, others are still willing to squeeze in and hope to find one as well. Same goes to parking slot around, it is horrendous during weekends, and even weekdays during office hours.
Stall's owner here are all with outstanding memorizing skill and some of them are very funny, especially the satay stall owner. The old man who runs this stall has a habit of thrusting plates of satay at customers. Just eat as many sticks of satay as they can or want to and the remaining sticks of satay won't be accounted for. Customer could only pay for those that they have eaten. Similar things happen on other stall owner as well, all of them would swarm the customers as soon as they sit down, promoting their respective items. Anyway nowadays things slowed down slightly. Stall owners rarely swarm customer's table, most probably due to their heavy load.
While talking about the food here, the creme caramel(炖蛋) is to die for and if customer get there any later than the normal lunch hours, most often they would have sold out. Other than that, the Ipoh chicken Kuey Teow is definitely one of the highly recommended food here, which many newspaper had already reported it before. It is famous of it's fragrant soup and soft and springy kuey teow. Same goes to the Popiah which is slightly larger than normal Popiah and have some nice crunchy bits on the inside with some soft vegetable filling and the savoury crunchy bits was a great combination. Other than these foods, there are a lot more others for example Zhu Chang Fen (猪肠粉), Yong Tao Fu (釀豆腐), Niu Nan Fen (牛腩粉) and others.
Overall, this shop has been around for ages and many people who live in Ipoh would have a lot of memories here. Some of them even taking their meal here since there are young. The food quality still able to maintain and the feeling of having meal here is as usual, like those old days in an Ipoh old kopitiam...
Old style center street
Chicken Kuey Teow stall (鸡丝河粉档)
Chicken Kuey Teow (鸡丝河粉)
Bean sprout (芽菜)
Popiah stall
Popiah
Yong Tao Fu stall (釀料档)
Zhu Chang Fen stall (猪肠粉档)
Satay stall
Soy drink
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