✈️ Ipoh

Nam Heong Ipoh Cuisine!

Visited Ipoh back in Sep 2019 (my second last overseas trip before covid struck)! Nam Heong Ipoh opened up a stall at 313 somserset foodcourt since June 2021! Have procrastinated long enough before finally coming to try it out! Was initially put off after reading not so good reviews about it online..

Tried the following food items:
🧡Chicken Sou ($2.20): Buttery flaky pastry crut with sweet bbq char siew!
🧡Egg Tart ($1.80): Flaky buttery crust with egg custard!
🧡Chee Cheong Fan with Minced Meat & Mushroom ($4.90): This turned out quite different from how I remembered it tasted like in Ipoh! This is different from our typical chee cheong fan. This is more like soupy char kway teow drenched in the mushroom minced meat sauce. I wasnt a fan of the tomato sweet sauce given though, and would have preferred if it was served separately
🧡Ipoh Hor Fan ($6.80): I quite like the broth for this! Tasted very homely, but with enough saltyness in the broth! So much better than the ones i had at old town white coffee which was bland and almost twice the price.

For drinks, we were actually looking forward to the white coffee, since it was the white coffee which it was famous for in Ipoh. We enquired and was told they were not allowed to serve the white coffee because they were right beside toast box haha. Hence we settled for the lemongrass lime drink.

Overall, the dishes are ok to me. But just price point slightly abit high. But you get aircon in the foodcourt!

Both sell the pandan paste pastry with egg yolk and pork floss. But as we went during the mooncake festival season, Ching Han Guan's one had to be preordered in advance. We were only there on our second last day of our trip and didn't have enough time to order Ching Han's. So we only tried the one from Guan Heong! I thought it was tasty, but just that it was dry and the 3 flavours don't really combine and gel into one. I still taste 3 distinct flavours when I eat the pastry. Got the soft cakes and cookies from Ching Han Guan as we saw other locals grabbing it. Fragrant fresh pastries and cookies anytime! 😋 #guanheong #guanheongbiscuit #chinghanguan #chinghanguanbiscuit #burpple #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

💓 This one was located slightly further away from the main Ipoh touristy area. It was filled with locals when we arrived. Similarly, you need to stand around like a hawk yourself to grab seats for yourself. Once seated, to fasten the process of ordering, head to the counters to get the items you want! There are diff counters for steamed / fried / congee etc. This was what we had - two diff kind of siew mai, lor Mai Kai, liushabao and kongbapao. #burpple #dimsum #chooiyuedimsum #chooiyue #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

I especially love the wokhei from these 老字号kind of stalls! We tried the signature dishes here -moonlight hor fan (medium portion for RM 13) and baby octopus (RM 18)! The prices were so affordable and everything was delicious! Dinner companion was feeling mouth itchy, so we added an order of their new menu item - war tan fish noodle (RM10) 😄 this was essentially fishcake shaved in noodle form, so it was slightly weird for me. Although it was essentially fishcake cut up in strips and cooked in horfan eggy sauce #burpple #ipohtuckkee #tuckkee #moonlighthorfan #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

No other better place to try than at Nam Heong! We also got the egg tart and some pandan paste sesame balls from the dim sum stall to go along! This place is filled with customers, need to stand around to find a space for yourself! #burpple #namheong #namheongwhitecoffee #namheongipoh #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

A crispy sugary puff filled with ice cream for RM 4.3! We had the green tea and yam ice cream. V impressed by the amount of ice cream that we were served with! 🍦 #burpple #hokkaidoicecreampuff #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

We chanced upon this otw back to our hotel and tried a Thai lemon tea here! #burpple #ipoh #drinka #thailemontea #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

🍌 Saw this minion ice cream everywhere in Malaysia! So I had to try it at least once! 😊 #burpple #minion #minionicecream #wallsicecream #icecream #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

Prices were cheaper here, but the portions were also smaller! But I like it because I love trying a variety of food! We tried a total of 10 diff items here! Dining here is an experience itself. You will have to stand around to wait for seats, much like a coffeeshop/hawker centre even though it is a standalone Aircon shop. Most tables are also the round huge one, so you will end up dining with strangers! For us, we manage to grab 2 seats v quickly because strangers' friends were late for their meetup (and eventually didn't come they had to dabao for their friends) so they could spare us the seats! There will be different trays being carried around by the staff, so just select your order from the trays! #burpple #ipohdimsum #dimsum #mingcourtdimsum #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

This one had more different variety of items which you can add in addition to the soya beancurd. We had the grass jelly and red beans! I initially wanted the blue pea sugar/syrup / blue pea soyabean drink, but sadly it wasn't available when we were there. Smooth silky beancurd anytime! (See the second photo for the zoomed in photo of how smooooth it was!) #burpple #woongkeebeancurd #woongkee #beancurd #soyabeancurd #soyabean #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

But I'm not a fan of tauge 🤣 for the steamed chicken itself, I thought I have had much better ones in Singapore 🤭 this wasn't as soft and tender or juicy as I expected. #burpple #louwongchicken #taugeayam #taugeayamipoh #chickenrice #steamedchicken #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia

Dropped by Patisserie Boutique to have their baby Dutch pancakes (comes with vanilla ice cream and blueberries)! I super love the thin eggy crust of such pancakes! Had an iced mocha and iced apple juice to go along too! #burpple #patisserieboutique #dutchbabypancake #dutchbabypancakes #ipoh #ipohfoodtrip #ipohfood #spoonsofdelightsipohtrip #food #foodie #foodmalaysia