Ipoh is very famous for the beansprout chicken, it’s actually not beansprout cook with chicken but they are in separate dishes of beansprout and chicken. Everyone likes Ipoh beansprout chicken, I like too, but to be honest, there’s better chicken at other places, like Penang. Hehe.

Since it’s famous, we will not miss it every time we go to Ipoh. Located in Ipoh’s old town, there’s 2 beansprout chicken outlet on Jalan Yau Tet Sin. One is Lou Wong and another is Onn Kee. Two also I have visited before, if you do listen to the radio, Lou Wong’s have made radio commercial before.

What’s so special about Onn Kee is that they have many photos of Asian’s celebrities eating out at there. Maybe this outlet is more famous then the neighbour’s shop? I don’t know. I like this place because it’s air-conditioned, not too hot.

Separated dish of beansprout and chicken. I like beansprout and I like chicken. The chicken is just more likely same as our Hainanese chicken rice’s chicken, though this chicken I ate was a little bit tough. I know a place in Penang has better chicken, but since it’s 2 different place, this maybe the best in Ipoh.

Here’s something different and that is their char siew (Roasted Pork). It’s honey barbequed and it’s something different and never eat before in Penang, not same like the char siew sell in Penang’s chicken rice’s stall.

Another thing is their speed is very fast, we sat down, ordered and in less than 10 minutes, everything is served. In so unlike in Singapore where I queued up for 45 minutes at Newton Food Centre for their Singapore’s famous chicken rice. That time was really OMG.

So which do you prefer? Lou Wong or Onn Kee? Or you have a better place to introduce?

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Ocean Restaurant is a restaurant on the Penang mainland, somewhere at Permatang Tinggi. I went to a wedding dinner last weekend at this place and I took some shot of the food. I was very full after the dinner, it’s a standard Chinese style course dinner, some food were nice some food wasn’t.

Hope that I got a chance to visit this restaurant in the future to try their real food instead of the course dinner’s food.

First out was always the standard 5/4 season, it was a FIVE season, there’s 5 different food. I always like the first dish that is out in a course dinner, because it’s always very hungry at that time. It’s a little bit special, different from so many that I had before, there’s satay, scramble egg ala Chinese style, kelabu, fried prawn, and another thing is like the dim sum’s Har Kao, but no one on the table really know what it was.

I’ll skip a few dishes. The second dish is always a soup, most of it probably is shark fins soup which has like 80 percent tang hoon (hokkien) /dong fen (mandarin), crab meat, other thing, a lot of MSG and 20 percent of shark fins.

There’s this Chicken cooked in herbal soup. This is a little bit special from what I’ve tried before at other place, the soup was more creamy with a lot of Chinese herbal ingredient. I don’t really like this because of the creamy soup, I prefer a more waterish herbal soup.

The fish was good, it’s some sort of fresh water fish, cooked with sour curry and tasted spicy.

At like 5th or 6th dish, there’s always the abalone with brocoli and mushroom. Abalone is an expensive food but then I don’t know whether it’s really abalone or not, there’s a lot of fake in the market. The only way for me to know it’s a real abalone is that the whole uncut cooked abalone is served. Then, for sure it’s not any imitation. =)

I don’t really like to eat prawn in a course dinner because I don’t want to get my hands dirty and I’m pretty lazy on taking off the prawn. The above right photo is the prawn-on-a-stick dish, the prawn shell had already taken off so it’s easier to eat. =) Not a bad one, quite nice.

Not last, but the one before the last dessert was the curry pork ribs with Chinese bun. I just tried a little bit as I was already feeling full at that time. The taste was a little bit weird because I believe there’s a lot of coconut milk used to cook the curry, I don’t like strong sense of coconut milk and so this was not my dish.

After all, I was fulled, some were good, some were not but the food portion were big for every dishes.

They have a website for it. Check it out.

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This one of the famous dishes at the Bak Kut Teh King outlet in Penang.

There’s 2 Bak Kut Teh King outlets, one is at New World Park and another is at Gurney Plaza, fourth floor. This was my second time visit to this restaurant. I saw people eating this noodle and I ordered one and try. I tell you what, the noodle is nice but then it’s too little already. I like the ingredient there, there’s meat, vegetable and mushroom. Tasted a little bit spicy, just a little bit and it’s ok for everyone I guess. The price is a little bit high, around RM10 per bowl but it’s a good one. I like it. I want more noodle, it’s crisp.

I think a lot of Penangite has already know about this famous hai nan chicken rice in town, Wen Chang’s Chicken Rice. It is located in the heart of Penang on Cintra Street. This chicken rice shop has gone on to papers and magazine before and my dad is a frequent visitor but not me.

This lunch visit, I got my camera with me and I am gonna share with you some chicken. =)

First up, they bring you the soup, it’s free (with order of chicken rice).

Then is the side dishes that dad order.

On the left we got chicken feet cooked with mushroom, different from what you eat at dim sum, dim sum’s is softer and hotter. This is not a bad one.

Right are lobak and some chicken’s organ etc liver and don’t know that the other is. I don’t really eat it, I eat lobak. Though the lobak is not very nice because it don’t have a crispy skin.

White chicken and black (roasted) chicken. One word, nice, but then what I tried in Bangkok and Singapore seems better, different cooking style I guess and different places, different taste.

Click here for the map to Wen Chang Chicken Rice in Town.