I finally got to eat Ipoh dim sum today!!! FINALLY!! Thanks to my cousin Yoong who came on a visit from Klang and I get to be her food tour guide. It's hard to find breakfast kaki-s nowadays because everyone wants to sleep in. =/
So I woke up at 7 a..m. and drove to Foh San. This is my first time entering their new premises in Jalan Leong Sin Nam. Yes, that's how long I did not visit Foh San. As a rule, I ALWAYS go to Ming Court (which is located just opposite them) because Ming Court dim sum suits my taste better than Foh San. But I thought to give Foh San a try since Yoong was here and I wanted to check out their new premises :-
The bottom floor was packed so we went to the upper floor and we seated ourselves near the balcony. The morning sun was shining and illuminated us :-
Yoong and I originally did not want any drinks but since the waitress said,"It's our policy. Once you set foot in here must take tea. Count per head!!", we settled for Chrysanthemum Tea which was a pretty good choice actually. Very fragrant tea.
We were swarmed by the waitresses pushing their carts of dim sum offerings. Choice overload. Anyway, we ordered the must-haves first:-
Fresh, big prawns..
Siew Mai
The waitresses whom we refused the dim sum which they shoved at us seriously looked ready to murder us.
I didn't know I was supposed to simply take everything they put to me and end up wasting food because of over-ordering?? They were also reluctant to answer me when I asked for things which were not on their carts. In the end I had to summon a waitress who was not pushing a cart to put in my orders for things from the kitchen:-
Hmm...only 3 TINY prawns in the whole plate. Prawns shortage??
Tasted more like lap cheong fan.
We had to wait the longest for this one and it came fresh from the fryer:-
At this point we were both starting to feel rather full but still not very satisfied (I'm being very frank here, all stuff above was alright but not fantastic.) We sat and sipped our tea a little and observed the passing carts. There were a few things that looked interesting but we did not order :-
Spent some time chatting and taking pictures of each other. Cousin bonding time.
And THEN we saw something that caught our eye enough to order as our last plate!! :-
(correction from Ben. Thanks!!)
The filling was really yummy!!
That pau above was Foh San's saving grace in our eyes. I remember Foh San from it's earlier days (in case you're wondering, I grew up in Ipoh) and Foh San today is not what it used to be. I guess it's because they had to keep up with the growing fame and overwhelming customers, everything has been commercialised?? I kind of miss the old shop where they originally operated. Good memories with family there...So after finishing our food, we lingered a little while and took some pictures:-
We wanted to stay longer but the table next to us began smoking and the smoke from four chimneys blew towards us (one of the girls looked underage!!) so we quickly got up and went to settle the bill:-
The cashier that is built like an abascus (Chinese calculator)
Cute!!
3 squeaked:
foh san.. i go there quite rarely.. haha.. yeah, lazy to wake up =P
So do i kenwooi. I'm always the one tarik-ing my friends out for breakfast when I'm back in Ipoh.Haha!!!
Appreciate you bloggging this
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