Burger King now in Ipoh

Thank you, Burger King, for your opening of a restaurant in Ipoh, at De Garden, opposite Jusco Kinta City. We, Ipohites, no longer need to drive down to Kuala Lumpur to taste your delicious flame-grilled to perfection 'WHOPPER' sandwich.

My favourite is still 'BK Double Mushroom Cheese!

Lunch @ Citrus Wine & Dine

Citrus Wine & Dine @ Laluan Ipoh Perdana

Citrus Wine & Dine is a well known fine-dining restaurant in Ipoh operated by a relative of the famous Lee family from Ipoh. Food offered here are delicious and affordable.

I visited Citrus again as my boss give us a CNY luncheon here today.

Caesar Salad with Smoked Salmon Bits

I have Caesar Salad with Smoked Salmon Bits as Appetizer. I like the salad as it was salted with some melted cheese and the smoked salmon bits are smokey and tasty.

Cream of Pumpkin Soup & House Bread

The cream of pumpkin soup came next with Citrus house bread. The pumpkin soup was creamy and the house bread was moist and fluffy. The soup helping was big.

Pan Seared Salmon with Sautee Vegetables

As for the main course, i ordered my favourite salmon dish with sautee vegetables. However, for this round, the salmon is a bit overcooked and the salmon skin was not crispy. A bit disappointed as i always like Citrus's pan seared salmon!

Warm Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice-Cream

For dessert, i ordered Citrus's famous Warm Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice-Cream. Contained inside the cake was some warm rich chocolate. The chocolate flowed out upon small bite on the cake. As i have been told, the cake must be baked at the right temperature to melt the chocolate.
After dessert, followed by brew dark coffee to end the lunch!
Total cost for this menu is RM70++.

Ma Jie Curry Mee @ Kedai Kopi Nam Kew

Ma Jie Curry Mee is one of my favourite curry mee stall in Ipoh. The stall is located inside Kedai Kopi Nam Kew, at the junction between Jalan Leong Sin Nam and Jalan Raja Musa Aziz.

My usual order is the dry curry mee with roast pork and char siew only. I always patronise the stall in the morning around 7.45 am to get fresh & crispy roast pork. The curry is lemak type with santan. The curry mee comes with mint leaves and lime. The price at RM3.50 only! The normal serving include chicken meat and other specials you may request like chicken feet and cockles. Service is fast even with the morning crowd.

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Brother Wah ("Wah Koh") (on the right) and his able assistant!

Yik Kee Restaurant @ Karak

I was driving to Kemaman with my colleague on Sunday, 27 July 2009. As we were taking the Batang Kali old-trunk road, we have to go up to Gohtong Jaya at the basement of Genting hill and down hill to Karak highway.

As recommended by my colleague, before entering East Coast Expressway to Kuantan, we got out and turn to the old trunk road to Karak town for dinner. We stopped at Yik Kee Restaurant, an old established restaurant famous for its pastries (especially the Durian Bomb) and Sang Har mee.

The Sang Har Mee is tasty and the prawn is big and fresh! The gravy coloured by the prawn roe is sweet.

We were also recommended to try its fried Yee Wo Wan Ton, i.e deep fried wanton in soup. The wanton is big and the filling contained a mixture of minced prawn and meat.

After the meal, I was looking at the famous 'Durian Bomb' placed inside a heated pastry rack and packed some for my supper.

This is my first time testing the 'Durian Bomb' and it is good!

Yik Kee Restaurant has several branches, one at GohTong Jaya and one in Petaling Jaya.

RM0.80 for Roti Canai & Teh Tarik @ D'Sungai

The best deal in Ipoh for a set of 1 piece of roti canai and 1 cup of teh tarik at RM0.80 only!

The special deal is available only from 4 pm to 6 pm at D'Sungai located at Kinta Rivefront, behind St Michael school and beside Kinta River.

Kinta Riverfront is a commercial riverfront project by the Morubina Group.

How is the roti canai? For that price, we should not argue whether the roti canai is good or not.

Wonderful Kinta Riverfront views from the restaurant.

Be fast, the special offer will be until the start of Puasa!

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!

MP Steamboat Restaurant @ Ipoh Parade

Friday, 29 August 2008, after shopping with my family at Ipoh Parade, we went to the new MP Steamboat Restaurant located at the Ground Floor near the concourse area. The restaurant was just opened, sometime in June 2008. The restaurant is operated by Movenpeak, a leading steamboat restaurant chain based in Ipoh.

The restaurant have set menu, i.e economy, chicken, seafood, lamb and beef set. We ordered the chicken set @ RM11.80 and chicken soups. They recommended MP Exotic Chinese Herbs (RM1.00) to be added to the chicken soup to give a delicious herbal soup. We have also added a side dish, fresh salmon sashimi (RM18.00) to go with the steamboat.

Chinese teas (cold and hot) are served immediately, while waiting for the soups to arrive. The electronic controlled steamboat boiler is a bit sophisticated. You have to learn how to switch it on, to increase/decrease the heat and to wonder which control is to control the steamboat boiler. On our table, there were 4 boiler and we were guessing which switch is controlling the boiler. However, instructions are available inside the menu, which we did not know in the first place!

The soup came and follow by the chicken set which i think is adequate of a small family like us, 2 adults and 2 children. There were chicken meat, vegetables, one egg, one noodle, bean-curd, meatballs, fishballs, taufu pok and mushroom in the set. The food and especially the salmon sashimi were fresh! Not forgetting the tasty chili-paste to go with the food.

The specialty of this place is that they have a conveyor belt (just like those Japanese sushi restaurant) with plates of all food, i.e vegetables, meat, noodles, fuchuk, bean-curd and etc for you to try the rest of the food. The price based on the colour of the plate, ranging from Rm1.00 to RM4.00.

Total bill, RM57.55, inclusive of 10% service charge. Overall, i give a high rating for this place for good fresh food, reasonably cheap prices and good service. I'm also happy with the restaurant hygiene as you may know that some steamboat restaurant, especially those old restaurant is not that hygienic.

Serai Sate Kajang @ Medan Ipoh Bestari, Ipoh

I was anxiously waiting for its opening.

It was opened 2 weeks ago and on Sat, 28 June 2008, i took my daughter, Ernni with me to taste the Sate Kajang from this Serai restaurant.

The satay is bigger than the normal satay, ala satay kajang! They have the normal chicken and beef satay and the not so normal, rabbit, liver and etc.

Each satay stick cost RM0.60.

They give a bowl of peanut sauce and additional chillies sauce in a separate bowl.

We had the beef and chicken satay. The chicken satay were good, the meat was juicy while the beef is too cooked i.e not tender.

Be warned that you must have strong teeth to eat the beef satay. I have complained to the cashier/boss but she answered the satay-boys could have over grilled it!

Anyway, i will still patronise this place as i loves satay, even though the satay is not from the famous Kajang Haji Samsuri shop!

Kluang Station Cafe @ Bandar Ipoh Raya, Ipoh

I just discovered that Kluang Station Cafe has opened a branch in Bandar Ipoh Raya, Ipoh opposite Nationwide Express office. I went to Nationwide to collect a parcel on from Alterni on behalf of my wife. As the despatch boys were not back from its round, i took the opportunity to try the Kluang Station Cafe's coffee and toasted bread. The Cafe has been opened for more than 2 years!

The restaurant occupied 2 shoplots and has a decent crowd on a Friday, late evening.

I ordered the famous coffee and the toasted bun.

Well, the coffee tasted ordinary and the small toasted bun cut into 3 pieces with crispy crust. Total cost only at RM2.40.

I am wondering whether is this the real famous Kluang coffee and toasted bread opened a branch in Ipoh as claimed by the restaurant operator?

Kizuna Japanese Restaurant

Took my daughter, Ernni to Kizuna Japanese Restaurant at Medan Ipoh, near Tesco, for lunch on 1 June 2008. Wanted to try this Japanese restaurant much earlier but does not have the opportunity to do so until now.

Ernni ordered Mix Fried Bento (RM24.80) which comes with deep fried seafood, shashimi, fruits and salad.

As for me, i ordered the Tori Teriyaki Bento (RM26.80) which is a mixture of teriyaki chicken, deep fried tempura prawn, shashimi, fruits and salad.

We also ordered a plate of Soft Shell Crab Tempura (RM20.00). No picture as when the dish came out, Ernni and I finished the tempura crab in a matter of less than 5 minutes. The crab were good and crunchy with tempura mix, while for the teriyaki chicken, the chicken meat is tender and not over cooked. As for Ernni's mix fried bento, no comment from her as she loves deep fried dishes.

Overall, the environment and the nice setting of the restaurant give a very good ambience for diners to eat. As for the crowd, since we went on a Sunday afternoon around 2.30 pm, the crowd is started to thin away.