SeeFoon Feeds Her Love of Japanese Food
The DOZO sign has been up for almost six months and each time I drive past DeGarden I make myself a promise to check it out as I love Japanese food. After all, what else could a sign like Dozo signify? It…
SeeFoon Gets Sweet on Savoury
It’s known as ‘Tong Sui Gai’ or sweet soup Street, a regular small thoroughfare by day which transforms into a veritable cornucopia of foodie delights by night. Very popular in days gone by, ‘Tong Sui Gai’ is quieter now, foodies having found…
SeeFoon Checks Out Possible Den of Iniquity
A restaurant with a name like Opëam, is bound to raise eyebrows, or it will have people queueing to check it out. Especially if it’s also housed in a bungalow behind a discreetly lit sign posted above the entrance. I had…
SeeFoon Remembers Kampung Malay Food
By SeeFoon Chan-Koppen Pics by Tan Mei Kuan It has been years since I had a bang-up, GENUINE Kampung Malay meal with all the classic dishes and condiments that today, appear to have gone the way of the Dodo bird…
SeeFoon Challenges Chinese Held Belief on Pork
Chinese Foodies of my acquaintance have generally clung to the belief that pork-free restaurants are somehow lagging behind in the taste department when compared to their pork-serving counterparts and that a Chinese meal without pork is like cooking without soya…
SeeFoon Enjoys an Elusive Delicacy
Ipoh is known for many special dishes and people come in busloads for them but in all the years I’ve lived here I have never had a roast goose. It’s been aeons since I had roast goose, harking back to…
SeeFoon Revisits Kok Thai and Finds More Delights
It was a gargantuan meal. As were the portions. Ever the generous and affable host, Edward Foo and his charming wife, my foodie kaki Ginla Chew, were hosting some friends from the UK, Teddy Yip, his wife Wendy and their three grown…
SeeFoon revisits old ground and finds new goodies
I have been meaning to revisit the almost ‘antique’ Teo Chiew Restaurant that I wrote about in the 16 November 2013 issue of Ipoh Echo but alas, contrary to what people believe and the question I am asked most “how…
SeeFoon seeks out auspicious food for Chinese New Year
This is the season for that delightful Chinese tradition of welcoming the new year with “Loh Hei” or the Prosperity Toss, the tossing of various ingredients symbolic of auspicious qualities that we pray will come our way. Not only is the ritual…
SeeFoon Hots Up Her Life
Living in Malaysia, we are all used to spicy foods, with each type of cuisine from Malay to Indian and occasionally Chinese (as in Szechuan) varying the degree of ‘hotness’ according to the regional preference. Malay and Indian dishes are…
SeeFoon Goes to H(e)aven
Well it feels a bit like going to heaven (not that I have ever been and chances are, I may not make it!) what with the guard at the gate acting like St Peter (who, in the Christian tradition, guards…
SeeFoon Mus(sel)cles in on Belgian food in Greentown
According to Wikipedia, it is sometimes said that Belgian food is served in the quantity of German cuisine but with the quality of French food. A certain Belgian friend of mine makes the claim that Belgian food even surpasses that…