Restaurants in Ipoh
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Old Town Kopitiam
This more upmarket coffee house facing the padang seems to be forever crowded. Simple chicken rice dishes prevail.
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FMS Restaurant
Upstairs from the FMS Bar, though under separate management, this is a popular Chinese restaurant in an old colonial building adorned with antique prints, porcelain, and a large portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth II. Seafood and beancurd dishes are particularly good, but prices are high. Wave away the 'complimentary' peanuts if you don't want them added to your bill. You'll also be charged for your paper napkin.
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Bonda
Self-styled 'retro' restaurant with a vaguely '60s/'70s décor scheme, including orange plastic chairs and Lonely Planet covers on the walls. Chicken and chips-style dishes are served, alongside the usual rice and noodle options, and there are piles of English magazines to flick through.
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Medan Selera Dato Tawhil Azar
Better-known as the Children’s Playground, this large food centre has stalls arranged around a small square filled with slides and swings. It’s a popular place for Malay food in the evening, it’s open late and, of course, kids love it.
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Monde Brasserie
This upmarket Western-style restaurant, with its white linen and fussy waiters, serves reasonably authentic pasta dishes, steaks, fish dishes and so on. It also has a pricey wine list.
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Old Town White Coffee
This upmarket coffee house facing the padang seems to be forever crowded. Simple chicken rice dishes prevail, and unsurprisingly, the coffee is pretty good.
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Pusat Makanan Majestic
This crowded Chinese food court has a noisy, boisterous atmosphere, and is a good place for a couple of beers.
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Ipoh Parade Shopping Centre
You'll find some smarter restaurants and a food court in the Ipoh Parade Shopping Centre .
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Xin Quan Fang
You better come early (seriously, like 7:15am) for the curry noodles and the pork and bean sprouts. Those two dishes, by the way, are pretty much all Xin Quan Fang churns out, but ohmygod are they good, as testified to by the lines that stretch around the block for this family-run favourite.
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Funny Mountain Soya Bean
Besides having one of the best business names in Malaysia, Funny Mountain is immensely popular for its one dish: soya bean and bean curd pudding. This is a millennia-old Chinese recipe brought to Ipoh direct from the Middle Kingdom; the curd is both delicious and a piece of Asian history.
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Restoran Onn Kee
Onn Kee is widely recognised as serving the best ayam taugeh (bean-sprout chicken) in Perak, if not Malaysia. The chicken comes boiled, soft and fragrant, the sprouts are particularly fat and crunchy, and the combined texture and flavour is surpassingly joyous.
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Kedai Kopi Kong Meng
Ipoh eaters swear by the Hakka (south-eastern Chinese) cuisine in Kong Meng, which has been in business for almost 70 years. Your best bet in this scruffy, friendly little cafe is the beef noodle soup with some of the special home-made chilli sauce.
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Full Sun Fish Head Noodle
Fish head noodle soup for breakfast? Hey, break free from those eggs and do as the locals do. The rich, fishy goodness in the cheek meat says ‘Good morning!’; that glassy fish eye staring back at you from the soup says, ‘Good choice, foodie’.
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Kafe Abarnaashre
This simple halal Indian cafe facing the padang offers superb value. The menu, which includes lots of vegetarian dishes, is displayed on the wall, with roti and dosa starting from as little as RM1.
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Greentown Noodle House
Reasonably priced noodle and rice dishes are the order of the day at this bright little Straits Chinese restaurant, as well as lots of roast duck and pork options. Enticingly, fresh frog porridge is also available.
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Golden Elephant
This classy Thai restaurant is attached to the Hotel Ipoh City. Seafood, including lots of crab and prawn dishes, takes up a large part of the menu, though there are also vegetarian choices.
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MBI Terrace
Essentially attached to the city’s municipal sports complex, in the evening MBI serves the best kway teow in town, according to many Ipoh residents.
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Restoran M Salim
Great-value place for cheap and filling Indian halal food, with various chicken, fish and rice combinations, roti and coffee.
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Medan Selera Man U
At the western end of Jln Mustapha Al-Bakri, this is another bustling Chinese food centre which gets going in the evenings.
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