Ipoh to Penang Food Crawl Part 3

This is a continuation post from the earlier ones. We were heading up north to continue our gastronomic adventure. Penang here we come! None of us were actually familiar with the roads in Penang but as CW said, 'The worst of is we ended up rounding the whole island. As long as we were still in the island, we should be fine'. Hmmm, quite true since our main objective is to look for food in Penang and every where in the island, there is food.

140km to go....

Before we realised, we were at the bridge d... Our destination is approaching..


First stop, Queensbay Mall - one of the biggest shopping mall in the island.

Since we were quite full from our breakfast, we decided to go window shopping in the mall first. In the previous night, I had searched over the Internet and there's one particular restaurant that caught my attention in this mall - T-Bowl Restaurant ( A restaurant setup based on the theme of bathroom, toilet bowl and etc). I supposed it was the first outlet in Malaysia. There's another one opening soon in Kuala Lumpur. So after strolling around in the mall, we decided to pay this funny themed restaurant a visit for a light meal or shall I rightfully say to try out their dishes served in eeeer,,,, 'Toilet bowl?"

Of course, when we were there, I took the opportunity to snap some of the photos of their interior. Here you go ----------

A shower head in the restaurant? Anyone care to shower here??? Hehehe...

Some of the miniature items on display at their counter.


We were practically seating at a toilet bowl (as chair) and wash basin (as table). Cool setup!

Different designs on the toilet bowl.

Some of their food items in the menu display on their wall.

Funny and cute comics too..

Lime juice to quench our thirst.

What do you think? Does this ice-cream dessert resemble something familiar to you?

Still can't guess what it resemble? Look at another picture to freshen up your memory... :P

TAAADAAAA - the master piece. Porridge in 'you know what'....

Me posing with the porridge...

See my face? Am sitting at the toilet bowl and pretending........ Wakakakaka...

Go and try out the new place if you 'dare' or brave for new stuffs. Definitely not for the faint- hearted. I believe it's just all in our mind. If we don't think too much, it should be okay to give this place a try. :)

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Ipoh to Penang Food Crawl Part 2

After our chicken wing meal for supper, we were heading for some Dim Sum breakfast the following day at 8.30am. Due to the large holiday crowd in Ipoh, we decided to go for Dim Sum in the Ming Court Hong Kong Tim Sum (situated opposite Foh San Dim Sum) in the hope for a lesser crowd and we were so wrong.

On the way for pipping hot and yummy Dim Sum.

As what we had predicted earlier, all the eatery places were jam packed with people (locals and of course tourists). I supposed 'kiasu-ism' needs to kick in whenever we were looking for a table during this peak season. The four of us waited around 20 minutes to get our seats in Ming Court. Not too bad for a waiting time after all taking into consideration it's a holiday weekend.

Our tables were fulled of various Dim Sum.

Flaky egg tarts

Some fried stuffs, forgot what it is.

Loh Bak Ko aka Radish Cake

Steamed Spare Ribs

Different type of Siew Mai

Har Kow Lookalike

Another Steamed Dim Sum

Fish Ball

Loh Mai Kai

Fried Fish Balls

Black Sesame Dessert

Sang Yuk Pau

Fillings inside the pau.

Wondering how jam packed the restaurant is? Have a look at the picture yourself to get the answer.

Ming Court Hong Kong Dim Sum Restaurant

Overall, the Dim Sum offered in Ming Court were good but I still prefer the ones prepared in Foh San. Maybe it's just my preference. Different people have different taste buds. Hehe... So after our Dim Sum breakfast, we were heading up north to Penang for another round of foodilicious trip. See you guys again in my next post.

Ming Court Hong Kong Dim Sum Restaurant

32, 34, 36 Jln Leong Sin Nam,

30300 Ipoh, Perak.

05-2557134

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Ipoh to Penang Food Crawl Part 1

We were blessed as 27th Nov 09 was a public holiday in conjunction with the Hari Raya Qurban. Much to our delight it was a Friday too which means we will have 3 consecutive non-working day. Yippee! Thus, we had decided to go for a Food Crawl Trip up North from Ipoh to Penang. We had another 2 of our regular makan kakis with us for this sinful and yummylicious food crawl trip (CW and LYH). Since CW was working on Friday morning and only joining us for dinner at night in Ipoh. So our first stop in Ipoh is non other than my favourite 'Big Small Leg' as the local called it in Pasir Pinji Ipoh. I had blogged about this place in my blog here.

Nice and cooling lime drink. Slightly different from the ones I had tasted before. Worth to try. NICE!

As usual, soft and melt in you mouth Braised Chicken Feet.

You can have a choice of noodles (meehoon, mee or kueyteow) to savour together the yummy chicken feet.

The yong tau fu aka 'liu' were ordered separately. You can pick which type you like and passed the your selection to them.

Ipoh famous Crunchy Taugeh. Yum yum.

After a wholesome and yummy meal in Restoran Kum Kee, we ventured into Ipoh town and dropped by Restoran Chee Wah for their famous chicken wings. Very nicely marinated, juicy and grilled to perfection. According to Hubby, this place is famous for their Claypot Loh Shu Fan too beside their chicken wings.

Restoran Chee Wah (I had asked 2 local Ipoh people -Hubby and LYH for their address or maybe street name, both failed to provide a name for me). So no location for this place. Sorry folks!

Aromatic and juicy grilled wings.

Their wings were so delicious.

(*I believe I can 'fly'* singing the song while eating). Hehe...

So this is our first day of our food crawl. More to come in the coming posts.

Stay tuned! .....

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