Taiping Restaurants

Roti Chennai/Canai is brought by the Indian from Chennai, a grilled flat bread of flour and oil on a big flat pan, it is usually cooked on the spot. It can be added butter or eggs with onion, it will be charged more for the additional ingredients. It costs RM0.80/RM1.00. It is usually eaten with dal curry or fish curry or chicken curry. It is usually crispy outside and soft inside. Very popular in Malaysia and Singapore.

Favorite Dish: Mee rebus is the egg noodles in sweet curry gravy, garnished with 1/2 of egg, deep fried tofu, bean sprouts, fried shallots, prawn fritter and lime. It costs RM3.00. It is very popular in M'sia, Singapore and Indonesia.

The main market is the heart of the street vendors for vegetables, fruits and local delights. It is always packed with hundred of people in the morning. The locals like to gather together at the Food Court on the 1st floor after the shopping to have breakfast and chatting with friends before they are heading back home. There is one and only street vendor for deep fried local tofu in the market. RM0.70 per piece.

Favorite Dish: The fresh local tofu (bean curd) is deep fried then stuffed with fresh cucumber and bean sprout, eat with tailor made sweet chili sauce, they are DELICIOUS! A friend from LA flied all the way from LA to KL to eat grilled tofu with me after her last visit 3 years ago. She told me a friend brought her to eat grilled tofu in KL a day before she left. When she was on board, her mind was filled with her favorite grilled tofu!!!

Larut Matang Food Court is full of variety of local delights from Satay to Fried Keow Teoy (Rice Noodle)

Favorite Dish: Hokkien Mee/Prawn Mee /Har Meen /Mee Yoke/ is called Prawn Noodle which is noodle in the shrimp soup serves with shrimp meat, bean sprout, water spinach and chili. The shrimp soup is cooked with heaps of shrimp heads, it tastes DELICIOUS! Price from RM3.00-RM3.50, there are few stalls in the Larut Matang Food Court as well as in the Market Food Court.

There is one and only street vendor at the end of the main market after the florists.

Favorite Dish: This is one of the Taiping local delights: Fried Rice Cube With Bean Sprout, the steamed rice cube is cut from a big piece of steamed rice cake, then fry it with oil, garlic, soya sauce, bean sprout with/without egg in a big flat wok. It only costs RM2.00 for breakfast!

Taiping is very famous with their local delights-street vendors food in the Larut Matang food court in the morning and in the afternoon; main market in the morning and Durian Square in the evening, there are always packed with the food lovers from all over in Malaysia at all times of the year. Some of the local food which you can't get in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ipoh etc etc. They are purely local delights from the local people from generation to generation.

Favorite Dish: One of the local delights is deep fried rice cakes. A big piece of cake is made of rice, then steamed. The steamed cake is then sliced into small pieces and deep fry. Some street vendors sell RM0.50 per piece but some sell 3 pieces at RM1.00 as shown in the picture. They taste delicious with the tailor made sauce!

Street vendors in the Larut Matang food court. A lot of variety of local homemade cakes.

Favorite Dish: Kuih Kosui is a steamed mini cup rice cake. A mixture of rice flour, tapioca flour with pandan leaves juice (screwpine leaves juice). 4 pieces are sold in a pack with some fresh grated coconut at RM1.40. Sprinkle the fresh grated coconut on top of the cup cake before you eat, it is a very light delicious dessert, the tapioca flour makes the rice cake QQ elastic :D

I stayed in the hotel above this Thai restaurant (see my accomodation tip) and the food was about as good as the hotel - simple and not all that good. I had a Thai green chicken curry which featured lots of bone and gristle but the curry was just OK. One to avoid.