Cuti-cuti Malaysia – Day 3 – Around Ipoh

After leaving Fraser’s Hill with lots of mosquito bite marks on Caden, we headed for my hometown – Sungai Petani. But not forgetting to stop by Ipoh for the famous Ipoh ‘Hor Fun’ – white flat noodles that are served together with bean sprout and soy source steamed chicken. It was raining heavily. After much of going round Ipoh town center trying to choose ‘the best’ Ipoh Hor Fun restaurant, we finally settled down with one that said ‘original Ipoh Hor Fun’ coffee shop. There are many ‘original’ Ipoh Hor Fun coffee shops, of course!

We parked right in front of the shop and one of the waiters was really quick to bring us an umbrella. Talk about Ipoh hospitality!

We had a choice of hor fun in soup or in dry soy source. I preferred the soupy one as the steaming hot soup went well with cold temperature.

Guess what we did after eating? Shop! That’s right.

Ipoh, being the capital for the state of Perak, is not short of pamelos and White Coffee. One company named Old Town White Coffee has a franchise of coffee shops all over Malaysia serving white coffee and local hawker fare such as kaya toasts, laksa, curry noodles and so on. I fell in love with White Coffee the first time I drank it. Why is White Coffee white? Isn’t all coffee black? Check this out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipoh_white_coffee

Our car boot was already three quarter full with our luggage. A few more pamelos and large packets of white coffee sachets had definitely added more load on our poor Nissan Latio.

It continued to rain heavily as we set off to Sungai Petani from Ipoh. However, it did not dampen our spirit to locate Perak Cave – a huge limestone cave which houses a Chinese temple, home to a large Buddha statue and many more smaller sized deity statues. It has a steep, tall staircase in the interior of the cave rising up to the top of its hill where one is greeted by a panoramic view of Ipoh and its surroundings.

We arrived Sungai Petani in the evening. Our Nissan Latio had a good shower by the rain. It also had a wash of ‘its bottom’ as we had to drive through some flood water before reaching our house.