Scenery and Food from Ipoh taken on 15th September 2007.

Proceed to town to have our lunch at Thean Chun coffeeshop in old town. Ordered the famous satay and kai see hor fun. You can't find this hor fun anywhere in Penang.

Before the journey back home to Penang, we had a pit-stop at Sin Yoon Loong coffeeshop in old town to enjoy a good cup of white coffee.

Ramadan is a festival celebrated by Muslims around the world. It is held every year and last for one month. For this year, it started on the 13th of September. During this period the adults will "fast" - they are not allowed to eat, drink and smoke from sunrise until sunset.

During the Ramadan Festival, a lot of makeshift food stalls are set up in most places for the breaking fast. Business starts from 3pm onwards until almost 7pm. It is always crowded with the Malays buying the food for their buka puasa meal. Nowadays it is common to see other races joining into this festivity too.

We went to the Ramadan Bazaar in Bayan Baru (near to Sunshine Square). All the stalls are located inside the compound of the mosque. You will find all kinds of buka puasa fare and also other local delicacies in these stalls and some of them are very delicious.

We would like to wish "Selamat Berpuasa" to all our Muslim friends & readers of our blog (and enjoy all the nice goodies like we did).

Found a cosy cafe serving authentic Nyonya cuisine at Tanjung Tokong situated behind The Penang Chinese Swimming Club (next to Naza Hotel). It's "NYONYA CAFE".

The place is fully air-conditioned and is nicely decorated with many antiques. We spend some of the time taking these photographs while waiting for the dishes.

We had (from clockwise) the Black Vinegar Pork Trotter (tu-car chor), Nasi Ulam, Perut Ikan and Acar Fish (photo below). The Pork Trotter in Vinegar was a bit oily and had too much of the black soya sauce. Still the gravy as a whole was delicious.

The Nasi Ulam (rice dish) uses a variety of fresh herbs. The herbs and rice were blended together with grated coconut and served cold. The herbs gave out a strong and pungent aroma.

The Ikan Perut was good. It is not very spicy but very lemak because they used a lot of the coconut milk (santan). Fish stomach is the main ingredient of this dish and we wish they could have added more of this.

The Acar Fish (fish pickle) was equally as good as the rest. The ginger and garlic was well seasoned as a pickle.

The dessert of the day that we ordered was very very good. It is a gravy of rich coconut milk, sugar and shaved ice, topped up with jackfruit. The ice was shaved very fine and smooth (like the shaved ice cendol that can be found in Melaka).

All the dishes that we ordered surely did whet our appetite.

Do you prefer to eat Kampung Chicken rather than the commercially bred chicken? If you do, then head down over to Hutton Lane. There is a stall that sells chicken rice and a variety of meat - roast pork, roast chicken and bbq pork and their speciality is the Kampung Chicken.

This variety of Kampung Chicken is known as "ang koo" in Hokkien or "woo so kie" in Cantonese. The meat is tasty and lean. The yellowish skin is much thinner and very smooth (doctors advised not to eat the skin but can't resist!!!). It comes with steaming hot rice, garlic chili sauce and their special soya sauce with chopped chinese celery leaves.

And also not forgetting the soup which has a bit of chinese kei chi and herbs. It is mild and very tasty....

Look out for this stall as you travel downwards in Hutton Lane. The coffeeshop is on your left, two houses away from the mosque.

Since we already had seafood dinner at Bali Hai again?? with our uncle (who came from Singapore) on his first night, this time round we took him to Ocean Green Restaurant to try out the food on his last night stay in Penang.

Had a few of their signature dishes - inche kabin (fried chicken Nyonya style), follow up with fried crispy choon-piah (Hainan spring roll). The rolls seems to have shrink in size lately.

The third dish is steamed fish in curry sauce. We always have this steam fish with plain beehoon (rice vermicelli) which soak up the tasty curry gravy....

Baked crab meat with cheese stuffed in crab shell - kept two for hubby who is busy taking the photographs.

Kerabu Tofu.

Fried rice with salted fish (kiam hoo).

Satay grilled with the sauce together.

Lastly, the sweets was steam tapioca served with thick santan (coconut milk).

This restaurant which faces the sea is hidden behind Paramount Hotel (a very old hotel on Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah).