It’s a fact that Ipoh has a lot of great places to satisfy your gastronomic experience and demands. Apart from great food, the people here are an overall friendly lot, unlike most major big cities, where all you see are sombre faces day in day out. And yes, Ipoh is famous for their pretty lasses too, yeah!!! Most likely thanks to the good water quality here.
Talking of Ipoh food, i’d like to share with you one of my favorite lunch hour hangout. It’s a nice restaurant serving the best seafood noodles in town. Restoran Fai Kee Ipoh is situated along Jalan Seenivasagam, in Greenhill. Oh yes, it’s No 28, you wont miss it, k. It’s right across the road from the OSK building. I suggest you go early or after 2pm to avoid the lunch crowd. Looking for a parking space there can be a bitch in the hot afternoon.
You’ll be greeted with a loud “WELCOME” and warm friendly smiles the moment you enter the shop’s premise. If you’ve not been here before, you may be thinking, “Damn, its such a hot afternoon. I’ll be sweating like a horse if i were to eat a bowl of hot seafood noodles”. Surprisingly, the restaurant is airy and well ventilated with lots of industrial fan, lol. Not air-conditioned though. If it is, you wont be able to enjoy such good seafood noodles at affordable prices, k.
I suggest you order a glass of cold drink to beat the hot weather. It’ll cool you down after a bowl of hot seafood noodles. Though the place mis packed, food is served pretty fast here. Do request for the cilipadi if you dont see it on your table. The waiter/waitress will bring it to you. Being Malaysian, who eats noodles without cilipadi, hoh. As you wait for your food to arrive, entertain yourself with an informercial of Restoran Fai Kee Ipoh on the TV.
My favorite dish here is Fish Head Bihun with Milk. Any dish with milk is best eaten here. Dont tapau it with milk. If you must, go add your own evaporated milk into the noodles back home. If not, the milk will most likely end up curdled by the time you reach home. You can also substitute the Fried Fish Head pieces with Fried Dory Fish pieces. Cost a bit more, but minus the bones. Aitelyu, one bowl is never enough for me……
Well, if i want a second helping, i’ll most probably order their Drunken Prawns Noodles. There’s also Drunken Chicken Noodles if you prefer poultry to seafood, k. They are both just as scrumptious. The combination of fried ginger with the parsley and spring onions make the soup oh-so-delicious. And yes, i drink every drop of it each time. How not to…… so delicious worrrrr. Not i can cook something like this back home. But why bother when i can have different varieties here at the shop, lol.
For those of you who loves to cook, you can very well have their famous Seafood Noodles Recipe and Fish head Noodle Recipe. They have it all framed up on the wall. Those of you who’ve not tried Ipoh’s famous seafood noodles before, then take down the address of Restoran Fai Kee Ipoh and drive there for lunch tomorrow. And yes, you’ll also hear their loud “THANK YOU, PLEASE COME AGAIN” as you leave the shop.
