Cuisine of Ipoh

Ipoh is famous for its food. Natives claim that Ipoh's water, which is relatively hard (high alkali content) owing to Ipoh's location on top of a large karstic formation, makes the food especially tasty.

Ipoh is famous for food items such as "Sar Hor Fun" (Chinese: 沙河粉; It is a flat white rice noodle which locals believe best served in soup with shredded chicken meat and prawns. Most Ipoh residents, particularly the older generation, indulge in their favorite pastime of enjoying "dim sum" (Chinese: 点心) consisting of various Hong Kong style cuisine includes small Chinese dumplings and hors d'œuvre delicacies; downed with generous servings of Chinese tea. Other favorite dishes includes a variant popular to Ipoh is "Hor Hee" (essentially is flat white rice noodle) served with fish cakes and/or fish balls, "Nga Choi Kai" (Chinese: 芽菜鸡) which is chicken fillet with soy sauce, beansprouts with pepper spread on top of it, "Hakka Mee" (Chinese: 客家面) which is rice noodles (yellow) serve with mince meat (pork) sauce, and "Heong Peng" ((Chinese: 香饼) which is a type of biscuits.

Ipoh is also famous for Malay and Indian cuisine, such as satay (meat on a skewer which resembles kebabs, served with peanut sauce), tempoyak (preserved durian extract commonly eaten with chilies) , banana leaf rice (Indian cuisine serve on a banana leaf), and a variety of northern Indian food.

Ipoh is well known in Malaysia for coffee known as "Ipoh white coffee". It was believed that as the Ipoh township stems from the development of the Ipoh Old Town and many small coffee shops remain in this part of the city, the coffee from Ipoh is given the moniker "old town white coffee".

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