Sunway Nexis

Decor at Sunway Nexis, Kota Damansara

Ipoh curry noodle which is full of strong spices flavour with prawns, char siew (BBQ pork slices), curry leaves, shreds of chicken meat - MYR12.90 nett. White Coffee with Ice - MYR4.30 nett and free glutinous rice balls (tang yuen) because yesterday was Winter Solstice Festival (DongZhi). I like the curry because of the spices and the hor fun is very smooth. The white coffee is very rich.

Side dishes of deep fried dumplings (sui gow) - MYR4.90 nett for 3 pieces (one portion) and deep fried lotus buns. Both are very crispy and tasty. One of the better deep fried dumplings.

 This is the eatery at Sunway Nexis. The HQ is in Ipoh. For an authentic taste of Ipoh, you can visit here if you happen to be at Sunway Nexis. They will be open for all days of CNY 2017. They also serve Ipoh Chicken Hor Fun. Parking is free for the 1st 2 hours.

This is the number to call to get in touch with them.

Ipoh Big Tree Noodle

Buy 1 Free 1? Ok, deal!

So the two of us walked in.

Uncooked Yong Tou Fu (A variety of food stuffed with fish paste) for us to choose from. A piece costs MYR1.40 but with the promotion on, we get 2 pieces for MYR1.40 so we selected 6 pieces for a total of MYR4.20 only.

More choices

They cooked our choices and brought them to our table. I got a shock when I saw that they deep fried the beancurd, long bean, bitter gourd and fish paste that I have selected.

I thought they would just cooked them in soup like this broccoli and green pepper (capsicum). Maybe next time I will ask them to just cook all of them in soup for me and not deep fried them.

We also ordered a bowl of seafood curry noodle - MYR12.90 - quite spicy but no fake crab sticks like the other shop.

Chee cheong fun with special soy sauce - MYR3.50 - this is one of their signature dishes so I did not request for the sauce to be served separately because I wanted to taste it in its original way of serving but what did I expect, of course it was too salty for me. So I must request the sauce to be served separately next time.

Egg custard? The name in the menu is cream brulee - MYR4.90 - not as light as the one I ate in Ipoh.

Ipoh white coffee - MYR3.90 - very creamy and thick - I like it as I only drink iced coffee and no hot coffee for me. Prices are nett and total bill came up to MYR29.40 and I think we ordered a little too much food for dinner as we were very full. We were told that this is a new place, since 2 months ago, in Sri Petaling. Not sure whether it is a franchise of the real Ipoh Big Tree Yong Tou Fu or not.

The Best

Happy Merdeka Day! This is a sweet post for you.

The best caramelized egg custard in Ipoh according to my sister-in-law.

Served by this Coffee Shop - Sin Yoon Loong.

Mushroom gravy

This is the Ipoh Chee Cheong Fun eaten by someone in our group with the full works - mushroom gravy, green pickled chili, a bit of sweet red sauce, a bit of chili sauce, deep fried shallots and sesame seeds. The thing is I forgot to ask the person how this taste like.

Happy long weekend!

JJ Lifestyle Cafe

We hung out at JJ Cafe (just opened mid 2013) from 11.30am to 1pm to wait for the two stalls mentioned in my previous post to open. Some people in our party of 6 were hungry so we ordered some food to go with the drinks.

Pulled Pork Charcoal Burger - MYR12 from "Today's Specials" menu.

Chicken Pot Pie - MYR8

MYR12 - I forgot the name of this dish but all of you can tell what it is by looking at it.

4 mini tarts - MYR6, 2 cupcakes - MYR6 from the dessert counter

My drink - ice blended fresh strawberry without any syrup - really sour but I like it because of the fresh strawberry taste - MYR9. They did give me a tiny jug of syrup and refused to take it away when I said I didn't need it because I think they did not think I can stand the sourness but I did not touch the syrup at all.

My spouse's drink - ice blended fresh kiwi without any syrup - sour with a tinge of sweetness and I like this drink too - MYR9.

Nice decor

JJ Cafe, Jalan Kampar, Ipoh - a nice place to hang out - prices stated on the menu are nett prices.

Ipoh Food

We reached Ipoh at around 7.30am and headed straight to Kong Heng coffee shop. Not many people were there yet at this early hour.

We ordered two bowls of Ipoh chicken slice Hor Fun at MYR5 each.

My brother claims that the beef slices in this beef noodle are very tasty - MYR6 

I ordered this Teluk Intan style Chee Cheong Fun - MYR2. I was asked whether I wanted mushroom sauce to go with it and I said no. I have not heard of mushroom sauce with Chee Cheong Fun before and I think it is only in Ipoh that they serve Chee Cheong Fun with mushroom sauce.

After that, we walked next door to Plan B but it was not opened yet so we just admired the architecture for Sekeping Kong Heng (which is located just behind Kong Heng coffee shop) and Plan B. We took many photos of the quaint lanes and creeping plants and walked to take a look at Burps and Giggles which is located behind Plan B. The photo above shows the toilets located below Sekeping Kong Heng.

We sat here for a while before we went for our 2nd round of food.

Plan B

I ate this cold caramel egg custard at Thean Chun coffee shop that is next to Kong Heng coffee shop. Tasted fine to me but my sister in law told me that the one served by Sin Yoon Loong coffee shop is tastier.

My spouse ate this hard boiled egg in sweet tea (warm). I am not sure how much the above egg desserts cost because my sister in law paid around MYR6.50 for 2 tea egg tong sui and 1 egg custard.

Then we crossed the road to Sin Lean Lee Coffee Shop and ordered two glasses of iced white coffee (MYR1.7 each) and a bowl of mixed meatballs - pork, fish, beef meat balls (MYR8.7) as we were too full to eat any more noodles.

But I must eat this Char Kway Teow with added eggs - MYR5.5 because this is Sin Lean Lee's ‘Kam Char Fun’ (Golden Fried Kuey Teow) which is quite different from KL's Char Kway Teow as this is the "wet" type. I like the egg more than the noodle.

Then we went to buy Pasir Pinji to buy Ming Yue mooncakes and stopped by JJ Rolls for swiss rolls. I wanted to try the Hong Kee Mah Chee blogged by Claire here (peanut mochi MYR2.5 for a very small pack and peanut sweet soup MYR2.5 for a very small bowl) and "Ais Sagu" (Sek Lau Zhi) - MYR2.2 for a pack but both stalls only opened at 1pm and it was only 11.30am then so we went to JJ Cafe to hang out.

After sitting in JJ Cafe (next post) until 1pm, we went to the two places mentioned above and bought the products to takeaway. Then we started our journey back to KL via the Simpang Pulai toll. Before that we made a pit stop at Yee Hup, Jalan Sri Ampang, Taman Ipoh JayaGunung Rapat to buy their freshly made Hiong Piah (MYR8 per pack).

There were many tourists at their shop who were buying individually packed Hiong Piah and these freshly made Hiong Piah were no where to be seen. Then the staff told me that I must ask for this at the cashier counter. I wonder why they keep these packs hidden behind the cashier counter but I did not ask. I guess it must be because these Hiong Piah is not individually packed and could be easily crushed due to their crunchiness.

Just bought one pack for myself and 2 packs for my family. After eating it, I find that it is really crunchy but no lard taste that some prefer (not me) so I do not know whether it is as good as those Hiong Piah of the old days. We left Ipoh at about 2pm.

Freshly made hiong piah - not individually packed.