Hor Hee @ Kedai Makanana Lok Wee Koi

Kedai Makanan Lok Wee Koi, located at the junction of Jalan Raja Musa Aziz and Jalan Mustapha Al-Bakri is one of the old established restaurant in Ipoh new town. I remember going to this restaurant with my grandparents during the 70's and the 80's. My favourite drink during that time was 7-up float i.e 7-up with syrup and a scope of vanilla ice-cream.

I still patronise the restaurant and one of the stalls there selling Hor Hee is my favourite. In Penang, there is Koay Teow Thyn (Koay Teow soup) but over in Ipoh, we have Hor Hee (Hor Fun with soup). The Ipoh's Hor Hee has slices of fish cakes, fish balls and 'fish wanton' while the penang Koay Teow Thyn has the normal pork or fish meat.

However, my favourite is not the Hor Fun in soup but dry yellow mee with soup. Seldom people order this but trust me, you have to try it. It is good. The soup is a bit sweet due to the cutter fish added in as the base stock while the slices of fish cake are the best that i have ever tasted! It is cruncy on the side and tender on the meat! The fish meat wanton is different from the normal meat/prawn wanton with the thicker skin.

You have to order the big bowl (RM4.30) of the dry version to get a bowl of soup else they will just add all the fishballs, fishcake and fish wanton into the dry noodle.

Restoran Yum Yum

My office colleagues and I went to Restoran Yum Yum for lunch today. We selected this restaurant as it serve 'halal' food. Dishes ordered were Nyonya Gulai Fish (RM52), Vietnamese Garlic Chicken (RM23), fried Brinjal with sambal (RM13), Yau Mak with garlic (RM12), Claypot Japanese Tofu (RM13) and Thai Style Egg (RM14).

The dishes are nothing to shout about as my colleagues complained quality of food drop and expensive.

Last minute we were informed that today is our colleague, Weng Kiang's birthday.

Happy birthday Weng Kiang, from all of us in 7th Floor!

Restoran Korea Yea Won

Took my family to Restoran Korea Yea Won at Medan Ipoh Baru, Ipoh behind Tesco to experience Korean food.

We ordered Mo Dem barbeque pork set with enoki mushrooms and big thinly sliced onions. The set comes with spread of kim chi and side dishes i.e dipping sauce and condiments to go with the barbeque pork. As some of the side dishes are spicy, it did not go well with my children.

As for my wife, she is a health freak and as expected did not appreciate the barbeque pork as it consist quite a lot of fat!

The barbequed pork was tasteless as it was not marinated but it goes well with the vegetables, kim chi and the side dishes!

Earth Hour 2009

My family and I are supporting Earth Hour 2009!

My commitments:
1) create awareness by putting up an Earth Hour 2009 banner in my blog;
2) will switch off all lights in my house from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm on Saturday, 28 March 2009;
3) ensure all electricity consumed appliances (including fridge) will be off from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm on Saturady, 28 March 2009; and
4) signed up with Earth Hour 2009 so that they can achieve their aim - to get 1 billion people in 1,000 cities around the world to join them

If you have not join them, please do so!