BF and GF were chit-chatting, topic was surrounded on our X'mas trip, and hmmmm...where should we go after our previous Penang trip ? GF was thinking to have a nice and relaxing hot-spring spa during this romantic season, thus, after collecting the info and did the surveying, we knew that Ipoh is our next destination !
Here comes the long awaited morning of 24th December ! We set off early in the morning from Cheras, toward our destination - Ipoh and the journey took us about 2 hours. I don't really care how long it takes us to the destination, because GF is accompanying by my side :)
Hohoho, we landed Ipoh safely and definitely it was the time for us to take lunch. According to the itinerary that planned by GF, Ipoh's famous bean sprout chicken rice was the one that we were looking for after
we reached Ipoh ! We chose to go Onn Kee Bean Sprout Chicken Rice (安记芽菜鸡), instead of Lou Wong
Chicken Rice (老黄). Both of the Onn Kee and Lou Wong are located at Jalan Yau Tet Sin at Ipoh Town.
It is very easy to find. We were glad that Onn Kee did not disappointed us, we did enjoy it and the chicken was fresh enough to buy our
compliment. 去片 !
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| Lou Wong is just opposite Onn Kee, what a strong competitor and strategic location ! :) |
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Haha...sugoi !!!
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Yea, we planned to taste the fresh soya bean milk after our lunch, which is a famous soya bean stall just behind the Lou Wong chicken rice shop. But it was boooooooooooo, out of stock !!! We were not able to taste it ! But we will pay visit again next time. And ya, it was a small interlude happened after we had our lunch, the careless BF - me dropped the car key and we had to proceed to the nearest key store to duplicate it !!! Grghhh...it spent us quite a long period and slowed down the itinerary. We checked in to the Ecotel Hotel, a brand new renovated hotel which is really comfortable and worth for the price ! It only cost us around RM200 for two nights !
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| The address of Ecotel Hotel: Blk B-G-28, Bangunan Perdagangan, Casuarina 1, Jalan Raja Dr. Nazim shah, 30250 Ipoh...Nice right ? :) |
Okay, sunset and we gotta welcome the night, we chose to spent our dinner at the famous Tong Sui Gai 糖水街 , located at Jalan Sultan Idris Shah (in front of SJK (C) Sam Tet 三德小学). There are around 50 food and dessert stalls can be found at here, choose what you want and eat as much as you can ! We tried few foods and i only took a photo of the famous Popia at here (because the taste of the desserts that we ordered were really so-so only).
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| People take long queue just to buy this Popia, simple yet delicious ! |
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| From BF to GF :) |
Here ends our first night at Ipoh, and we gotta sleep earlier, because the exciting hot-spring spa was awaiting for us on the next day, and we knew we really need energy for the X'mas Day ;) Good nite ~
Hohohoho ! Merry X'mas, here comes the X'mas and Santa Claus is coming to town ! We began our X'mas with a tasty dim sum meal ! We chose not to visit the Foo Shan Dim Sum because most of my friends from Ipoh recommended me to Yoke Fook Moon Dim Sum Restaurant (玉福满点心酒楼), it is just beside Foo Shan only, and i personally like it very muchiieeeeeee ~ The price is reasonable and we spent around RM35 for the dim sumssss :)
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| Location of Yoke Fook Mun Restaurant: No. 67-69, Jalan Leong Sin Nam, 30300 Ipoh |
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| Various choices of delicious dim sum ! |
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| Reasonable price and the taste not bad too ! |
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| Thickyyyy egg tart ! I like it ! |
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| How can we eat dim sum without Char Siew Bao ?! |
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| Highly recommended ！芋角！ |
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| Our all time favourite - Siew Mai |
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| HK Ju Chiong Fun :P |
We said bye bye to the delicious dim sum and eventually, here comes our most awaited trip to Lost World of Tambun ! Here we gooooo ! It took around 25 minutes from Ipoh town to Tambun. Actually we didn't enter the Lost World of Tambun, we only visited the Tambun Hot Springs Spa, which is beside the Lost World of Tambun. The entrance fee is super duper cheap for the Tambun Hot Springs Spa, only RM15 per person, then you can enjoy the natural mineral hot springs until you bored with it ! According to the professional, do not soak yourself into the hot springs too long, it is not good for health : |
P/S: The opening of Tambun Hot Springs Spa for the public is during night time only, better visit there after 7pm
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| This is another hot springs resort - Banjaran Hot Springs Resort, which cost you above RM1k per night ! We tried to enter it but blocked by the security guards :O |
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| Amazing ~ |
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| Beautiful of nature ~ |
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| GF...strike a pose ! :) |
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| Inside the Tambun Hot Springs Spa |
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| View 2 |
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| View 3 |
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| Spa-spa-spa !!! |
Brrrrrrrrr...what a relaxing night after enjoyed the hot springs spa, it washed out the tiredness and freshen our night ! GF and BF were hungry till the max ! We decided to have a wonderful X'mas dinner at Secret Garden (erhemmm...this not the Korean drama "Secret Garden") ! Eolmana eolmana deo neoreul ! Haha...sorry, GF likes Hyun Bin's so much ;)
Okieee, the Secret Garden is located at 42, Jalan Cheah Cheng Lim and it is nearby Ipoh town. It is a gorgeous restaurant and the atmosphere is romantic too, suit us best at this festive season :) Merry X'mas to you - GF ~ <3<3<3
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| Cute ~ |
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| This is quite special, Salmon Spaghetti, although the portion is small for me ~ X _ X |
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| GF's clever choice, a super tasty and special fried pork chop... Perfect if serve with the sauce together.. |
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| Secret Garden's salad |
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| Nice ! |
Time flies...here comes the last day of our trip, after packing our stuffs, GF told me a really funny thing, which the Ecotel Hotel receptionist misspell my name !!!
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| Mr Hor Kah Hai...sounds rude ! |
Before we went back to KL, we chose to have an authentic local style breakfast at Ipoh town. An old coffee shop at Jalan Bandar Bijih Timah - Sin Yoon Loong 新源隆 was our last stop at Ipoh.
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Front view of Sin Yoon Loong Coffee Chop
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胜友如云
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| 炖蛋 with caramel, nice ! Worth a try. |
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| Authentic Ipoh White Coffee, rich in taste |
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| GF's pork noodle |
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| My Ngau Nam Min...Beef Brisket Noodle ! haha |
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I really love this !
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BF and GF 's had to put a full stop on this wonderful 3 days 2 nights Ipoh trip. We passed this X'mas with happy and blissfully. Time to back to the hustle and bustle city life, but both of us knowing that, MORE and MORE TRIPS ARE COMING SOON !!! Buahaha ! See ya !
Your sincerely,
BF & GF
