Suka Makan goes to Ipoh! This is my first overseas post since the batch from Kuching, Sarawak. I'm attending my NUS class of 1989 reunion in the capital of Perak state, which also happens to be a foodie paradise. The first stop is the row of restaurant and snack shops that is Jalan Yau Tet Shin, near the old city centre. The destination is the well-known Chinese noodle restaurant called Ipoh Tuck Kee. There is another restaurant with a similar name but this is the OG one.
It's always better to have more people to share your table - which means you have more varieties of food to try. So, we've got three types of noodles - all sinfully rich, far more delicious than the pictures hope to suggest. The secret is the liberal use of pork lard! No halal or kosher signs here, just good old pork lard is put to extreme good use.
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| Moonlight hor fun, with its raw eggs. |
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| Wak tan hor fun, literally with slippery eggs. |
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| Classic black Hokkien noodles. |
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| Side dishes: I've never tasted sweeter taugeh (bean sprouts) than these! |
Here are the photos of our first reunion meal of this weekend. See how many people you can spot! A final thing: the meal was scandalously inexpensive, which makes one wonder how these places can make a living, and how over-charged we are in Singapore!
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| That's what admiring the food looks like. |
IPOH TUCK KEE
61 Jalan Yau Tet Shin
Ipoh, Perak
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