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Heong Peah is a well known Chinese delicacy in Teluk Intan. According to Wiki, Heong Peah or 香饼 in Mandarin (Fragrant Biscuit) has a crispy layer outside and contain a mixture of flour, oil, maltose, sugar, sesame, and shallots. ‘Heong Peah’ market in Teluk Intan is dominated by two family-run enterprises: Sin Guan Tin and Sin Joo Heong.

Of the above, my colleague’s aunt actually owns and runs Sing Guan Hoe and so far I find their biscuit to be the best! However the trick is you must have the biscuits fresh, the modern vacuumed pack can keep it nice and fluffly for the next 2-3 weeks but best is to be taken immediately or within a week as they bake and pack their biscuit fresh.

During my last trip to Sitiawan, I made an effort to stop by at Sing Guan Hoe to pick up the pre-ordered biscuits (they have a long queues of order to be met) and got to taste some freshly baked heong peah and have a cool and viewing how they make their biscuit.

Our initial orders of like 8 packets became like 14 after everyone started to taste the biscuit and those that we brought back, everyone loves them! I highly recommend this brand to anyone, its soft, fluffy and sweetness is just right .

Kedai Biskut Sing Guan Hoe
No.23 Jalan Pasir Bedamar
36000 Teluk Intan, Perak
Tel: 05-621 5094
GPS: N4 01.710 E101 00.898

It was Monday morning and I had to rush up to Ipoh for a morning meeting, so it was one of those leaving KL in the wee hours of the morning and heading up the highway. Everything was going well, with a little time buffer we even check out my Perak food guide on some makan place in Ipoh.

As we are approaching the Ipoh toll, the norm for me is to keep right as that is where the smartag lanes are located right… and so I did… but before I know it (travelling highway speed), the road had changed! The highway splits into 2, left to Ipoh and right is straight up north, no more chance to turn into Ipoh! Next thing I know the GPS asked me to drive 25km further up north to make a u-turn! *stone*

So anyone, since I had to make a u-turn at Kuala Kangsar, we decided to check the town out for breakfast but we got a called that meeting rescheduled slightly later… not to tell more grandma stories… we stumbled upon this place that sells prawn noodles. Its located in Taman Bunga Raya and at the end of the residential road there is this wooden house that is actually Kedai Kopi Aik Huat.

The place is pretty quiet but you get quite a lot of locals stopping buy for noodles or doing take aways. The stall is in shop and they have a choice of mee or koay teow, I don’t see any meehoon. Anyway, there are 2 types of mee, the normal yellow noodles and another one that looks like hakka noodles but thicker. I was being told by the lady that this one does not contains alkaline and so I gave it a shot.

The prawn noodles is RM3.30 per bowl and it is topped with prawns, slices of pork, kangkung and some fish cake. I was bring asked by Andrew what’s the rating for it, I have it 6-7 out of 10… mainly the mee is good, smooth and soft plus no alkaline. Every slurp of the noodles is quite flavorful with prawn taste… but when you drink the soup, its not addictive. So maybe no MSG? I don’t know… haha.. but the prawn flavors are good enough for me but good noodles.

I wouldn’t drive all the way up to eat it but if I am in the area, don’t mind dropping by this kampung style place again .

Prawn Noodles @ Aik Huat,
Jalan Bunga Raya 3, Taman Bunga Raya
Kuala Kangsar, Perak
GPS: N4 46.629 E100 54.813

Whenever we visit my uncle and aunt in Sitiawan, they insist that we have to take a 40 mins drive (less than 30 for them) to Pantai Remis for a fine meal seafood meal at Ling Song Kee. Which, really I have no complains because they serve some of the finest chinese food around. We visited Ling Song Kee just last month and their highlight of goose web and pumpkin steam yam paste really didn’t fail to dissapoint me at all.

The goose webs are braised with pig tails and serve on top of cooked vegetables. Everything is just soft, tender and superbly tasty, no doubt about it. Even people whom usually don’t take like chicken feets and stuff will want a second of this. The most amazing part is even if you want to find goose webs in KL, its tough as goose is not a popular thing to eat here but here, they have it.

The next dish is their seafood pot is filled with goodies like sea cucumber, squids and all… very tasty! Following up are like a plate of 20 over prawns steamed with eggs and cooking wine all queue up freshly to fill us up.

The stir fry vegetables to me is pretty clever, very simple dish of just mixed vegetables but topped with some nice bits of seafood and also nuts making it simple but not ordinary and superbly tasty!

Steam fish here is always shockingly big in size, that’s because they get their supply fresh from the sea at lower cost too. As usual, you don’t need any fancy cooking to taste the real goodness of the fish but simply steaming it with light flavours is good enough.

A new dish here to me is their octopus, they are simply boiled then serve with fried shallots on top on a rojak like sauce and its just amazing. Although at that point of time, my stomach is already bloating (more from the beer I think) but I just can’t stop eating the octopus, a must try!

The dish my dad gave the highest score here is their must have, yam paste steamed in a pumpkin. Simply scope the pumkpin up and take it with the yam, the best dessert ever, full marks.

Oh ya, just for the record, this place is pretty famous, so don’t except to be able to walk in and eat what you seen I had ok , when Uncle Lim was alive, the owner used to go to Genting on regular basis to cook for him, so you can imagine .

As you can see, this place, I have no complains just full of compliments, can’t wait for my next trip there again! Gambateh Ling Song Kee!

Ling Song Kee Seafood Restaurant
GPS: N4 26.786 E100 37.577