JuzRide!: Ipoh dimsum~!

woke up at 7am on a sunday morning juz to haf dimsum!! the uncle told us tha previous day that the Dua Bao gets sold out as early as 6am in the morning sometimes!! thou we r not great fans of Dua Bao, we din wanna go there and not able to even find a seat..

we did a recce to check out the place on our 1st day and man!! there're lotsa ppl standing ard coz there's no seats!! and it was abt 10am that day.... so now u know why we so ganjiong to go so early le...? but even so, we cant find an empty table and need to share to order our breakfast fast.... anyway end up we din take any photos of the food coz we cant accumulate enough for a nice pic with such a small portion of the table to ourselves... remember there's still the teapot, tea cups, sauces, cards....

wad is the best thing to do after breakfast?? to nap of coz!! haha... now i understand why din i feel especially tired reporting to work on monday morning str after i came back singapore...

we were supposed to check out by 130pm so we did.. and went for lunch after depositing our barang barang at Grassland.. we had yong tau fu (ytf = why the fu*k) curry mee, again, from the same stall the bus uncle pointed out to us the previous day.. anyway this was lunch part 1... lunch part 2 on the way later...

we're done being tourists the previous day le...so today we shall do some town-exploration!! ipoh is generall known to be divided into the "old town" and the "new town".. reasion being that the old town is the original ipoh region where the current train station is and had seen much history of the colonial past of ipoh.. u can actually see that the old town has many buildings that has france influences as well as chinese/indian cultures... much like malacca and penang... ipoh day 1 was spent mainly in the new town where our hotel is, and the new town was there due to the expansion of the old town... hmm... getting complicated....

anyway..... juz a personal comments we had... the old town looks newer than the new one!! i think it was the effort to preserve the place la... at least it was done very tastefully... unlike malacca... where all the buildings were painted so damn bright... the old town was damn lifeless thou... all the shophouses were unoccupied... some of the eating/drinking places recommended by Lonely Planet were not in operation anymore... at least they looked like they're unoccupied... not sure if they'll come alive when night falls...

the bridge that links the old and new town...

a whole black of apartments with national flags!! national day coming meh? passed loh....

aspiring lawyer?

the train station of ipoh... majestic huh... we din go in thou.. yan says wad if it's lousy inside... it'll spoil all our praises for it....

another shot of the train station

"We, the citizens of............. Malaysia boleh!!"

age is catching up.... *tired*

dunno wad building this is... but it's nice nonetheless...

*thinks**damn it! she's late...*

late and still acting pretty....

oh im at the edge of ipoh!! this bridge goes over the railway and wad lies beyond is unknown to us....

we roam in circles... literally.... passed the little india twice.. the old majestic colonial buildings twice... and finally get to the chinese shophouses... we chanced upon this closing coffeeshop and then yan suddenly exclaimed!!

"Kong Heng!!!"

apparently it was recommended to her by an ipoh colleague.. i checked up lonely planet and indeed it was also in the map... hmm.. but too bad, we're slightly too late... walking abt in too many circles... her friend said the stall is good for their popiah and snacks...

so we continued our walking and we found another coffeeshop that's unusually bz considernig that it's already abt 4pm in the afternoon, way after lunch time le... then we realised there's another one that's right opp. the road that's even more packed!! hehe... of course we chose the one that's almost impossible to find seats to haf lunch part 2 la.... ppl there were mainly eating chee cheong fan.. at 1st i tot it's those usual hongkong style chee cheong fan that were steamed on the spot and has charsiew or prawn fillings kind... apparently not... there were juz the usual ones but were diced so thinly that they look juz like kuay teow!! i ordered 2.. one dry with sasame oil and soy sauce, and the other wet with curry sauce...(hmm???) and a white kopi-peng! i was thinking is it this thing that ppl know as ipoh horfan coz other than this, we've not seen any other places that sells anything close to being ipoh horfan...

ipoh horfan?

we ran out of places to go le... and we're still 5 hours from boarding of bus... more shopping at ipoh parade!! we din buy much this time.... oh no we did... we bought loads of comics!! haha... cheap thou...secondhanded ones... im still not done with reading any of the series till now....

our last dinner at ipoh! horfan!! dun think this is ipoh horfan also...it's juz the usual soupy horfan with lots of eggs... but it's nice!