Ipoh Restaurants

Jusco is a Japanese chain supermarket with Arena Foodcourt which is halal for Muslims.

There are a great variety of different type of Ipoh and hawker style food served here in air condition clean environment with convenient parking. It is free parking now at Kinta City where Jusco is the main tenant supermarket.

Also its location is 5 minutes on the right along Jalan Larut towards Ipoh downtown after you exit from the North South Highway (the second exit after the tunnel, the first exit is to Perak Tong Cave)

If you can get to Ipoh new town in the early morning, head for Foh San restaurant for dim sum.

It is another Ipoh institution as one of the earliest place to serve dim sum in Malaysia. The first chefs apparently went to Hong Kong to learn how to make dim sum.

Foh San is also famous for her mooncakes during the Malaysian Chinese mid-autumn festival. Foh San mooncakes are sold throughout Malaysia during this period. But if you are here during that time, why not buy a fresh box or two home.

Another established restaurant in Ipoh new town, near to Lou Wong is this steamed chicken, bean sprout and rice.

So if you are more of the Hainanese chicke rice type than noodles, this is a popular family eating place of sharing a plate of chicken with individual rice plates.

Also located at Ipoh new town, this has become a very popular steamed whole chicken dish.

With the popularity, there are no longer seating place to eat the chicken and it is a take-away or to go outlet.

Best to eat when the chicken is still hot. Delicious but still just chicken.

This is a Ipoh signature koay teow soup of rice flat noodles with fish balls.

It will not be too far stretch to say that most Ipoh Chinese sons and daughters when coming home from overseas or outstation will make it a point to eat it.

I believe it is an acquired taste. Anyway it is a delicious bowl of noodles but given one choice I will opt first for Ipoh chicken bean sprout noodles.

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If you cannot wait until dinner time for Lou Wong or Ong Kee, there are plenty of other hawker stalls in coffee shops that serve Ipoh famous steam chicken bean sprout rice flat noodle soup (koay teow).

One of them is the restaurant opposite Kamdar Supermarket in downtown Ipoh. The coffee shop also have the famous "Haw Hee" koay teow noodle soup with fish meat balls.

At the coffee shop, you order the famous Ipoh white coffee.

Some local Ipoh residents prefer Ong Kee to the bigger Lou Wong.

Ong Kee is smaller and located just opposite corner of Lou Wong.

I have tried both but don't ask which one taste better. If you want to avoid the crowd at Lou Wong, you can opt for Ong Kee.

Same menu of steam chicken with bean sprout (taugeh) and meatballs and rice flat noodles in soup (koay teow or kuetiau).

Note: Also open during dinner time.

Many Malaysian and Singaporean tourists coming to Ipoh will make it a point to have dinner at this famous institution in Ipoh.

It is located at middle of town and can be hard to find with the many one-way street of Ipoh. So do not hesitate to ask any local Ipoh resident where "Lou Wong" and you will find it for sure.

Another thing is that it is only open at night. Popular of course, the steamed chicken, the bean sprout and the meatballs with rice flat noodles soup (kue tiau) or (koay teow).