Ipoh - week 3 in Malaysia -
IPOH had been on my bucket list for a long time, since my expat period in KL back in 2016, so I was excited to explore, especially for the local specialities, as I had heard this town is known as the food Mecca! (I love eating !!! ...and drinking hihi.)
Wandering around in the city was fun to find street art and British-influenced buildings, then there were so many cafes and restaurants to stop by so we never got bored with this adventure. I didn't see tourists from overseas as many as Malaysians as so it was still a great getaway on weekends for locals since it's just about 4 4-hour train ride from KL.
I often spotted huge trees growing not only on the ground but walls like the photo above. It's such an amazing life force they had.
Speaking of other pictures, you may find somebody blending in those murals hihi.
Sunday market.
It was such a fun time to browse retro items in the market, which was on during our stay and we happened to pass by in the morning. We were on the way to the cafe for breakfast but drifted to this street because we didn't want to miss this chance to check out funny items! Most of them were very retro such as old music magazines, rusted bicycles and typewriters. Oh, I discovered Japanese Manga characters like Shin-chan and Doraemon too!
The big photo below was the IPOH railway station, and other colonial architecture caught my eye. The landscape was pretty much the UK with Chinese letters, so I thought it looked so posh back in the British colonial era, what was more, we discovered a cricket ground in the city.
I am against colonialism because all of the countries have the right to protect their own culture and lives, but it was fascinating to see the colonising countries leave something to enhance their culture and it worked.
The huge Buddha sitting in the centre of this cave, and this temple is about 100 years old so quite new. It's so peaceful and serene inside as if being in Japanese temples. There was a staircase to go up to the top of the mountain, but I was satisfied with staying in the middle way through and the view was fantastic 😍
I couldn't be happier with their dim sum! We ordered the prawns, chives and egg tarts, which were freshly made with heart. The owner, Elizabeth was so friendly and welcomed us by singing a song in Chinese, so we felt so comfortable like visiting her house. This restaurant doesn't put hyper advertisements or SNS but word of mouth, and she said that her mission was to spread dim sum in the world! The egg tarts were already the best in the world, Elizabeth!
If you come to IPOH, you should come here and taste their dim sum. I highly recommend it.
The stir-fried bean sprouts are a specialty of IPOH so I couldn't wait to taste them! It was fatter and shorter than other types I have ever had so the texture was more substantial and couldn't be a side dish but a main one. I loved it.
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