Trip Down to Malacca – Detour into Ipoh

Posted on May 8, 2009
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We’re current on a family trip to Malacca. I’m blogging this post from Malacca right now, hehehe. Haven’t been going around Malacca yet at this point. Will update my blog with more posts later.

Anyway, on our way here, we decided to take a short break and took a detour into Ipoh. For the short time we have there, what better to do than going to look for food ;)

We dropped by a shop that specialized in soya bean’s products. According to wife, the ‘tao foo fa’ (soya bean curd) in the shop is very nice. The only direction to the place I have from her is that it’s around the ‘Lou Wong’ Bean Sprout Chicken restaurant. So, we went round the area a couple of times till we finally found the shop located in one of the rows of shop houses there. The name of the shop is ‘Lai Kei Soya’ / ‘Kacang Soya Lai Kee’.

I was wondering what is so nice about that shop that she recommended the shop in the first place. As we got there, the first thing I noticed was that the ‘tao foo fa’ they prepared are free from gymsum powder (a common ingredient in making ‘tao foo fa’). That’s something not so common among soya bean curd sellers.

For the ‘tao foo fa’ sweetener, they have choices between white sugar, gula Melaka (a type of brown sugar made from coconut juice) and ginger sugar.

We ordered the ‘tao foo fa’ with ginger/sugar sweetener.

The first impression I have when the ‘tao foo fa’ were served was they were soft and smooth. And after taking the first taste, it was indeed very soft and smooth. For the sweetener, it was just moderately sweet. Just nice to bring enough flavor to the dessert. Most probably the taste of the sugar was partly neutralized by the ginger, making the sweetener not overly sweet. The ‘tao foo fa’ was really good to the last drop :)

We continued our journey after we’re done with the ‘tao foo fa’. Before we hit the highway, we decided to have a ‘take-away’ from Ipoh. What’s nicer to take away other than the signature ‘Ipoh Salted Chicken’, right?

We drove to our favourite ‘red shop’. The shop name is ‘Aun Kheng Lim ayam garam’. This shop is located at the corner of one of Ipoh’s main road. There isn’t any nice parking lot available around this shop. I think that’s the reason the shop owner came out with the ‘take-away’ idea. The salted chicken costs RM16 each. Tips for travelers: as you are nearing the shop, turn on your car’s signal light. The workers of the shop will come out to greet you as they spot your car nearing. You just need to tell them the number of chicken you need and they’ll get those packed and delivered to you without the need of you to get down from your car.

Good and convenient service, right? Well, that’s all folks. That’s our short detour to Ipoh. More updates to come later.

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2 Responses to “Trip Down to Malacca – Detour into Ipoh”

  1. kenwooi on May 8th, 2009 12:49 pm

    wow now you’re in malacca? nice..
    haha, im from ipoh! =D
    enjoy your time in malacca..

  2. cleffairy on May 9th, 2009 12:20 pm

    LOL… I hope you have a good time in Malacca…did you shop in Jonker Street?

    blurryleo: { yep we did ;) }

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