My daughter has not been to Ipoh before.My wife and I had little impression of Ipoh since we visited Ipoh 40 years ago. We decided to go for a 4 days 3 nights free and easy short trip to Ipoh. There were 5 persons on this trip (My wife sister and her husband, my wife, my daughter and me) . Cantonese and Mandarin are the common language used in Ipoh. If you can speak either Cantonese or Mandarin then you have no problem to communicate with the local people.
27-6-2017 (Tuesday)
We left Singapore to Ipoh by budget airline Tiger Air. By the way, Tiger Air had merged with Scoot budget airline for commercial reason. Both airlines are the subsidiaries of the parent company, The Singapore airline. The flight from Singapore to Ipoh was 1 hour. The moment our plane touched down at Ipoh airport we were welcome by a heavy downpour. The Ipoh airport ground staff handed us with umbrellas. We had to walked a short distance on the tarmac to the arrival building. No taxi was waiting out side the airport building.We went to the airport taxi counter and requested the staff to phone for taxi.The taxi fare from the airport to our hotel was RM 30 which was a 10 minutes drive. I understood that this was the standard fare charged. After checking in to the French Hotel we went straight to a near by Chinese restaurant for dinner. We were lucky to get a table as we realised that all the tables were fully booked.
After dinner we went for a stroll and had our dessert at a hawker stall.
Ipoh airport
Ipoh airport
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Dinner expenditure :
1. Dinner RM 112.25
2. Dessert RM 11.50
3. Rojak RM 8.00
RM 131.75
food truck
28 -6-2017 (Wednesday)
We had our breakfast at one of the popular coffee shop, Thean Chun coffee shop 天津茶室 , to tastes the local delights.The currency exchanged rate was $1.00 = RM 3.00. We visited the Ho Yan Ho herbal tea museum after breakfast.
Breakfast expenditure :
1. 猪肠粉 RM 4.00
2. Dumpling RM 9.00
3. Fried kuay teow (炒果绦) RM 7.00
4. Coffeee RM 8.50
5 Curry chicken noddle RM 6.00
6. Egg custard RM 5.60
Total RM 40.10
Crossing a bridge
炒祼条
with caramel
蛋挞
加里面
何人何博物馆
art work
for herbal tea
Lunch break at Sun Tuck Kee 新德记 coffee shop .
Lunch expenditure :
1. Fried Ho Fan 炒河粉 RM 52.30
2. Bean Curd 豆花 RM 4.50
3. Kaya Puff RM 5.00
4. Kopitiam coffee RM 25.65
Total RM 87.45
炒豆芽
炒八爪鱼
helper taking orders
kaya puff
overhead bridge
Dinner at Ipoh Parade shopping mall Secret Recipe cafe.
Dinner expenditure :
1. Secret Recipe RM 146.00
shopping mall
29-6-2017 (Thursday)
We had tim sum 点心 for breakfast at Foh San 富山茶楼。At 8.30 am the restaurant was crowded with customers. All customers had to queue at the counter to place their order and then carry the food back to their own table.
Breakfast expenditure:
1. Tim sum 点心 RM 101.95
2. local coffee RM 8.00
RM 109.95
to place order
the opposite side
the place after eating
traditional pastry like
meat floss biscuit,
almond biscuit
花生酥
egg cookies
腰豆合桃酥
咸切酥
巴黎茶室
opened for half day
tim sum breakfast
Lunch was at the Aeon shopping Mall, the Soup Restaurant Taang Shifu (汤帅父）
Lunch expenditure :
Soup Restaurant 汤帅父 RM 87.45
Dinner was at Aeon Shopping Mall Secret Recipe
Dinner expenditure :
Secret Recipe RM 112.40
30-6-2017 (Friday)
We had breakfast at another popular local coffee shop named Kafe Wah Nam 华南茶室 for the local coffee and delights.
鸡丝河粉
炒果条
We had our lunch at Sushi Tei before heading for the Ipoh airport.
Lunch expenditure:
1. Bento set RM 141.35
2. Coffee RM 8.55
RM 149.90
Departure time: 1725 hr
The 4 days 3 nights short trip to Ipoh was very relaxing and enjoyable. The local food suits our taste bud and the pricing was very reasonable. The cost of food sold in the Ipoh cafe restaurant were equivalent to Singapore food court pricing. Cost of transport was reasonable too with the Grab car service. From the French Hotel to a shopping mall, we paid RM 4. And fare to the airport was RM 17. The Grab car service was good and efficient. Most of the Grab car drivers were working on part time. One of the young Grab car driver told us that he was a property agent. He made extra income in between his appointment.
