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

Enjoy your meal under a Big Tree

By Chen Choi Pin
Photo by Chen Choi Pin

Nowadays, people are preferred to enjoy their meal at the cool air conditioned and calm environment. However, the first-time customers would probably feel very surprise when they come to Pasir Pinji Big Tree YongTaoFu because they are so many people crowded at this little stall. What make this crowded and loud environment becomes so famous?



Here is Pasir Pinji Big Tree.



Pasir Pinji Big Tree becomes so popular is because their on-the-spot made Yong Tao Fu.



   This laksa is one of the most popular foods in Pasir Pinji Big Tree.



One of the stall in Pasir Pinji Big Tree, Zhong Ji is famous for miles around just because of it freshly made fried ingredients in Cantonese. Big Tree is not a comfortable place, here does not provided air conditioned room, but it did provided varieties choices of fried ingredients. The people are line up and picking up their favorite fried ingredients with a plastic bowl and all these bowls of Yong Tao Fu or fried ingredients will be placed in front of the stall.



Big tree is provided varieties choices of “Fried Ingredients”.



All this fried ingredients are 100% hand make.

The main reason of this stall to become so popular is because their on-the-spot made Yong fried ingredient. According to the stall owner, Chow Yi Hong, the workers at the stall are more than 20 people, and the Laksa is making from his own secret recipe, cannot taste it at other place!

During peak hours, Chow wills non-stop keep on frying these freshly prepared Yong Tao Fu to ensure their tastiness. The other reason is also because the meat of the fish they use is so fresh until people can describe it with "juicy" while bitting it.

The environment here is another credit. Pasir Pinji Big Tree Yong Tao Fu is actually located in a traditional hawker center under a few big trees. Wind breeze and tree shield is a perfect combination for relaxation in nature.

The price is reasonably cheap compared to other states or town and they got a large variety of food. When you are growing weary tired of the air conditioned places and wish to try something special, here is the place to go.

Address:1427 Jalan Prince
Kampung Pasir Pinji
31650 Ipoh Perak
Tel：012-507 1482

Delighting Coffee

By Wendy Wong
Photo by Wendy Wong

A cup of thick and fragrant white coffee would bliss your morning.



What made Ipoh become popular in the international stage? Definitely is the power of Ipoh white coffee…

In 1918, the founder of Ipoh Old Town White Coffee improved the traditional English coffee with bitter and sour taste into Chinese favourite taste. With careful modulation and special selected local planted high grade Coffee beans, he produced the aromatic, creamy and milky white Ipoh White Coffee. 

The newly  improved white coffee taste smooth and does not hurt stomach as normal coffee did, it serve together with low fat condensed milk to avoid causing body heat to coffee lovers, become popular and pursuit by the public.   

Located at Ipoh Old Town, Sin Yoon Loong Coffee Shop famous with its homemade trademark Sin Yoon Loong White Coffee. Owner of the coffee shop is a Hainan, which is an ethnicity among Chinese in Malaysia that well-known with good coffee making skills. 



Spending times with few friends and white coffee in the morning, this is the best portrayal of Ipoh life.



Every morning the coffee shop crowded with customers that eager for white coffee. Their lovely morning would start with a cup of thick and fragrant white coffee, one piece of toasted bread and a half-boiled egg.



  A cup of good white coffee, a dozen of heart was used in producing it.



Sin Yoon Loong Coffee Shop is managed by the Wong`s Brother, which was based at Ipoh Old Town for more than 60 years. The brothers are the second generation successor of the coffee shop. Wong stated that this family business had long history in Ipoh; they pick the coffee beans by themselves, and subcontract the toasted jobs to others, to save time and efforts.  

“Putting yourself in this field, many works to deals with yet the profit doesn’t much. Although we had subcontract the toast coffee powder jobs to other, but there are some works that need to do it by our own. We had suffered a lot in doing this job, I don’t wish my children to undertake my mantle,” Wong said.

Asked about why there are so many choices of white coffee, yet people  persist with Sin Yoon Loong Coffee Shop for white coffee, Wong jokes with humour  that every white coffee is the same, he didn’t found any differences between his white coffee and other white coffees in the market. Yet, Sin Yoon Loong Coffee Shop still crowded with white coffee lovers in every early morning.

So, you better stop thinking about this tasty white coffee, if you do not have patience and drag yourself out from bed in the morning…

Address:15A Jalan Bandar Timah.

30000 Ipoh ,Perak

Tel: +60 5 241 4601