I went to Ipoh last weekend while on the way going back to Penang from Kuala Lumpur. We stopped by to have lunch there, dad decided to bring us to eat their famouse beansprout chicken. It’s not actually beansprout cook with chicken meat but then it’s 2 separated dishes. Onn Kee Restaurant was the place we had our lunch, it’s a famouse restaurant in Ipoh and have been visited by many Asia’s celebrities.

Frankly, it’s my first time eating beansprout chicken in Ipoh. I have visit to Ipoh for so many times but this was my first time. It’s really very nice, the chicken meat is nice to chew, it’s soft and well-cooked. The beansprout, which we called it Taugeh in Hokkien is quite nice too, it looks like a fat beansprout. I noticed a lot of my friends don’t like beansprout, but then I am not with them, I do eat beansprout. =)

Didn’t ordered rice, instead we ordered Hor Fun, or more likely to be known as Kuey Teow in Penang. They called this flat rice noodle in Ipoh as Hor Fun. If we asked for rice, it will had become chicken rice, but then I have ate a lot of chicken rice, so Hor Fun was for a try and it’s quite smoothy.

As for side dishes, there’s a bowl of fish ball. I got to say that this is not a nice one, fish ball here in Penang is more delicious then that. I believe the fish balls are not handmade but bought packet from supermarket. =)

It has a name before. Bali-bali, but now it’s Red Bali. It’s a seafood restaurant and quite famous among the locals here and it is located at Farlim. I guess a lot of people knew about this place. Because I’m staying quite far from Farlim, it’s like the other end for me and so I do not get to visit this place oftenly. The last time I eat at Red Bali I think was 7 months ago during Chinese New Year. Woah, that was long.

It was just a typical weekend dinner for us. Nothing big and fancy. Dad and mom went to Farlim to meet someone on the weekend night and we decided to have our dinner at Red Bali. It’s not only consist of seafood, there’s a wide range of Chinese dishes to choose from.

It’s a fried fish with chilli sauce, filled with onions and garlic. It’s crispy and doesn’t have a lot of bones and so it’s quite easy to consume.

I love soup, this is the *oh shit, i’ve forgotten the name*, a soup with a lot of vegetable and salted egg. Though this is not the best I had, it’s not salty or sweet enough, instead it’s a bit tasteless.

The local call this dish 四大天王 Si Da Tian Wang literally meaning 4 Big Kings, as there’s the lotus seed, petai, another 2 types of vegetable that I’ve never came across the names before fried with sambal and prawns. Simply delicious!

Well, the last dish was the sweet pork ribs. Personally saying that it’s not that nice. There’s a nice place that serve pork ribs in Tanjung Bunga, next time I’ll cover on that. You must dip it with the sauce provided and eat it else it’s just sweet on the outside. It’s not the taste but the meat is not soft enough. When eating ribs, less meat is the best.

Click here to check out the map to Red Bali Seafood Restaurant.