Best taste of Sar hor fun in Ipoh

by Chen Choi Pin
Photo by Chen Choi Pin

You can hunt for various type foods in Ipoh.One of the best known of Ipoh food is sar hor fun or kueh teow. The smooth and tender sar hor fun or kueh teow soup has undoubtedly put Ipoh on the country’s culinary map. A coffeeshop name Tian Chun located at Jalan Bandar Timah can consider as a famous food outlet which is popular with it sar hor fun and other hawker food.



The smooth and tender sar hor fun or kueh teow soup that attract a lot of out station travelers.



This becomes a mystery as why the Ipoh sar hor fun is so good until it makes Tian Chun Coffeeshop crowed with people. Secret recipes are handed down the generations. The smooth noodle, with some fresh prawn and chicken on it, and finally add into the soup that makes from secret recipe, a delicious sar hor fun is done. Many out station travelers are favourite with this sar hor fun.

This sar hor fun stall have been in business for more than 50 years. Sar hor fun hawker, Neow Tse Choong, says the special of the soup is boiled over few hours from chicken bones and prawn shslls. Here is not merely sell sar hor fun but also has beansprouts (Tugeh).

Neow Tse Choong (left) and father Neow AH Chye preparing the famous Ipoh sar hor fun at stall in Tian Chun Coffee Shop in Jalan Bandar Timah. The younger is the fourth generation to run the stall.

The constantly crowded Tian Chun coffee shop.

Even with a tight budget, you still can have a wonderful experience with delicious sar hor fun in Ipoh.

Address: 73 Jln Bandar Timah(Leech Street),

30000 Ipoh, Perak

Tel :+60 12 390 5498