Category: Musings on Food
SeeFoon Goes Grazing in Bercham
By See Foon Chan-Koppen The one lament I have as I find myself adding yet another year to my age, is a constant reminder of the admonition from my beloved grandmother of “wide eyes, narrow stomach”. This is happening with increasing frequency, especially as many friends keep inviting me to try this and try that. [...]
SeeFoon Heads for The Hills
While most of our energetic Ipohites head for the Kledang Hills for their early morning workout, I prefer the more ‘couch potato’ route for a visit to its foothills in the evening. The later the better.
SeeFoon explores Chaozhou cooking
I have always loved Chaozhou or Chiew Chow cooking. Though similar in taste in many ways to Cantonese, the Chaozhou kitchen is known for their ‘Lo Tsui’ dishes, in particular goose, pork and intestines which are braised in a dark soya sauce
SeeFoon stumbles upon Halal Dim Sum
There is a certain predilection amongst those of us who have grown up with a Chinese palate, to be disdainful of Chinese food that is cooked without pork. ‘Chicken doesn’t have the same flavour as pork’ they say and ‘where is the fragrance informed by slivers of Yunnan ham and a dash of Shao Tsing wine’ they argue.
SeeFoon explores a ‘Different Taste’ in Bercham
It never ceases to amaze me how people in Ipoh love food. Perhaps that is one of the compelling reasons why a foodie like me chose to live here.
SeeFoon goes ‘grazing’ in Chemor
“to graze – to eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal” (dictionary.com) Food stalls all over Asia are a natural grazer’s delight and particularly in Ipoh where there is a cornucopia of available outlets. All one needs to do is gather a group of friends, hop into the car and whizz off, not [...]
SeeFoon discovers authentic ‘Mah Lat’ taste in Ipoh
Most readers will have discovered by now that my taste in food is somewhat eclectic, and while not as adventurous as Very Serious Foodie Andrew Zimmern in his programme called Bizarre Foods, where he will pop live worms and insects into his mouth and apparently enjoy them
SeeFoon chills out with Gourmet Pizzas and discovers other delectables
It began with a hankering for Pizza. Eschewing the ubiquitous fast-food joints, I was told by my son, who was visiting Ipoh and who’s a bit of a ‘night bird’, that the pizzas at baŕbeźa, which bills itself as a restaurant-bar-chill-out lounge, were some of the best he’d ever eaten.
SeeFoon gets all steamy again, this time in Bercham
Perhaps I have been having a surfeit of rich food. Lately I find myself hankering for lighter food, something wholesome as in steamed food.
SeeFoon discovers that “Real Men Do Eat Quiche”
The title of this tongue-in-cheek book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche, by American Bruce Feirstein, a bestselling book in the 80s, satirizing stereotypes of masculinity, came to mind as I was tucking into Quiche recently at Tammy’s Kitchen in Ipoh Garden East.
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