I am surprised that other food bloggers also agree that the place is over rated. It is so popular and was packed with customers. Yet, all they offer is some lousy looking economy rice stall and a duck noodle stall. Plus some chicken biscuits. BTW, the chicken biscuit minus the lardy bits is not nice also. It is no longer crispy and oozing with lard. Just hard pieces of biscuits with strong flavour of red fermented bean cake (ang tau joo).

However, if you are a city boy, then, you may like the rustic feel of a small pekan like Bidor where people sell fruits like fresh guavas, jambu air and etc by the roadside. When I was there, they also sell rambutans. I thought it is not rambutan season at the moment?

Now, I am much smarter and will not believe food blogers 100%. Ten may write that the foods are so yummy, so nice, so sedap, so great but all I need is one to tell me the truth.

The face tells you that he must have one each of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs animals plus all the dinosaurs. Each little animal is RM2, very much like mooncake and filled with red bean paste. Taste? Blek. We still have one, which still hasn’t grow fungus after like, a month?

There are lots and lots of varieties of traditional biscuits. We bought two each of most of them but only one is really worth mentioning. I am not sure what it is call but it tastes like ‘kai chai peng’, flat, thin, crispy biscuits with some five spice powder fillings.

They sell all sorts of tambun pneah. The above is the sambal udang kering flavoured, which is spicy dried shrimp. Nothing to shout about but taste ok. Penang tambun pneah is the best.

It may not taste delicious but it is too cute to resist. I have a little piggy with so much details, it even has a butt hole just below the wriggly tail! Serious. Because the fillings is black, it is too obscene to be shown online.

Haze, traffic crawl, festive crowds….long-long way from home. So, we took a break at Ipoh and went right into Ipoh’s puzzling signboards and missing road directions to find out what we can discover to perk up our tired souls.

Wallah! A bowl of seafood noodle with a very delicious soup boiled from anchovies. It costs only RM5.50 per bowl! Two huge fresh water prawns, octopuses, pork balls and lots of Chinese celery. Ahhh…soon, all those tiring rides were forgotten.

We had our lunch at Kim Kee Seafood Noodle. The shop displays many newspapers and magazines cuttings featuring their shop. The coffeeshop is rather cramp, oily and stuffy but their chrysanthemum tea and yee-mai fucuk are good, so I will overlook that point.

Kim Kee is along the road where Onn Kee and Lou Wong Ipoh Taugeh Chicken is. Funny why the row of restaurants there call their shops with Kee. So many Kees there it is confusing.

We had four bowls of these noodles, two with prawns, two just with pork balls, four glasses of water and they told us it is only RM15.30. We were surprised and ask them to calculate again because we thought it was too cheap!

I believe they have other things beside these but most of them have sold out. So, the next time you are in Ipoh and wants to try out something other than Ipoh Taugeh Chicken, check out Kim Kee. (Originally we wanted to go to Foh San but again, we can’t seem to find Foh San when we want to eat there.)