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.

Beside the old Police Headquarter in Penang Rd, there’s a mamak coffee shop that opens till midnight. Do you know the old Majestic Cinema? It’s where the coffee shop is. My friend took me there one night to eat supper and he ordered fried Maggi noodle (fried instant noodle) with egg for me. It’s fried in tomyam style, a bit spicy and very nice. If you got nothing to do at night, can go eat fried noodles there.

Map here.

Surprisingly, the chicken rice in Bangkok was quite nice and in fact, it’s different style of chicken rice than in Malaysia. The chicken is whiter which compare to Malaysia’s which is yellower. Serve in a big proportion for a 4 person meal, the chicken rice itself is nice too, not very soft nor hard.

One thing special about it is they gave us a lot of this kind of sauce, it’s not actually chilli sauce, it’s a bit sweet, spicy and sour. Taste good when it with rice. =)

I was in Bangkok last week and the first day I was there, I went to for a buffet lunch at my hotel, Emerald Hotel. It’s 550baht (approx RM55) per person and there’s quite a lot of Japanese food to choose from. The most worthful food to eat there was the fresh oyster and salmon sashimi.

I ate a lot of those and luckily I didn’t puke it out, love them a lot. It’s a Japanese restaurant call Daichi Restaurant at Emerald Hotel, Bangkok. If you get a stay there, check out the buffet.

Fresh juicy big oyster. I never had such big oyster before in Malaysia.

Dad took the raw prawn to the tepanyaki section to pan fried it, it’s big too and same juicy. Damn nice man!

I stayed back after school today and I had my lunch in my school canteen today. I budget tight recently as I have been shopping a lot, so I have to reduce eating more junk food in school like nuggets, hot dogs etc etc.

Usually, during lunch in school, I will order rice with 3 dishes at RM2 and add extra nuggets, fried eggs or wan tan for RM1. Then another glass of drinks for RM0.50.

Today, I took a change, I ordered the famous Koay Teow Thng for lunch at only RM1.20. Of course it’s not enough for a growing kid like me, I didn’t even plan to just eat only 1 food for lunch. RM1.20 consist only a little bit of ingredient, like 3 fish balls, a meat ball, rice flat noodle and a little bit of meat. Many people loves the koay teow thng, during recess time, the stall always has the longest line.

Another food I ate today was the Char Koay Kak, which is most probably define as fried rice cake, it’s like the famous char koay teow in Penang, it uses rice cake instead of flat rice noodle. I will never order the RM1.20 one because it doesn’t consist of an egg, just add a little bit of RM0.30, you will get an egg with that.

The weather was so hot today, I had finished my bottle of water before school dismisses. Then I bought myself a glass of syrup juice for only RM0.30. Still remember a few years back, it’s only RM0.20 per glass, but because of inflation, everything goes up.