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.