this is ipo in malaysia three hours from kuala lumpur and two hours from penang
this heritage city is filled with laneways coffee street art and amazing amazing food
oh that is really good is this the most underrated city in malaysia let's go find out
okay guys good morning welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new here
now let me just catch you up a little bit before we get in to the amazing things and the beautiful
things we are seeing and doing today yesterday we got in on the bus and we're actually meant
to get here around 4 or 5 p.m and we ended up getting in here about 9 00 pm the bus was
late it was delayed at the bus station and then the bus took another couple hours to get here uh
driving it was like rainy and those traffic so it took a lot longer to get here so this is actually
my first impressions of ippo it is so pretty but we are going to have a look around we're going to
go somewhere fun somewhere special somewhere really pretty we're going to get some food
we're going to get some coffee as always so stick around and let's see what we get up to today so
we're waiting for our grab to get to where we're going today which is exciting but we've run into
this like soccer club and like michael's actually a second coach back home so this reminds us
of our saturday mornings before we left australia he would coach the soccer team the local the youth
soccer team and i'd come and watch so it kind of feels like home okay so we are here we are at
tasik sermon and it was a little bit hard to get to it kind of looks like a construction site so if
you keep driving through you'll find this big tent um with everyone in there where you pay it was six
ringgit for non-malaysians and three bring it for malaysians um entry fee into here but i can kind
of see it through this big cave i can see it right at the end like the light at the end of the tunnel
this is really exciting this looks really pretty when i looked at things that i wanted to do here
in ipo so let's go have a look through so we've come out the other side of the cave and it's
opened up into this massive lake with all of these like really tall like limestone looking
cliffs on the side like surrounding this whole like water space water space body of water that's
what i meant body of water but it's really cool she said that we've timed it really well because
you can see the reflection of the cliffs in the water which is what it's called it's like a it's
called mirror lake so you can see that which is awesome apparently it's earlier in the morning
that you get that the most i will say that it is a lot smaller than i actually thought like
this whole jetty um there's not that much room when i i thought it was like really big it's not
there's not much room here at all and there's a lot of people so you're gonna have to wait your
turn for photos or something like that so i was reading the chart back there and it said that this
was actually a big cave so the top bits here were connected um a long time ago and then they fell in
and basically created this lake all the water got into it got a bigger because of like mining and
things like that so this was actually a cave first okay i came out okay i came out outside of the
lake it's basically a construction zone i mean she told us it used to be a mine site so that makes
complete sense but even the rock that i am sitting on or that i have the camera rested on right now
looks so cool it looks like quartz or something i don't know i'm not into like rocks and stuff but
it looks really cool is this a must-see for me i'm personally gonna say no i mean if you have
nothing else to do in nepal maybe yes but for us or for me um i could have skipped this it's not
that exciting it was quite small actually to be completely honest but that's not to
say that it wasn't stunning so if you have nothing else to do or anything like that if
you're in the area then definitely check it out don't hate me let's go and get some breakfast
wait hold on we're not getting breakfast next we're walking two kilometers down
the road or getting somewhere to go two kilometers down the road
and going to a cave temple let's go to cave temple
okay so basically where we are now is just down the road from where we were before at the mirrored
lake but this is like a row of a couple of chinese temples that are built into the side of this cliff
like into the caves so you can just kind of make your way down check them all out as you go
and then we're off to get some food which i'm starving for so it smells really heavily
of incense here which i really like whenever i'm around like you know grounds like this so
let's have a look at these temples apparently those turtles over here
they don't look very real they're not real he's moving he's moving
hey little buddy behind us is the actual temple that we came here to see
back there and it's really like it's abandoned or something it's very like i don't think it's used
anymore no it's quite mystical looking i saw some photos online and it does look more like
done up back then i suppose but um it's kind of cool looking like half just left how it is
let's have a look at the rest of the city the town where we're staying and see what it's like around
there there's a few lanes there that are quite popular okay so we have just checked out of the
small little hotel that we stayed in it was very simple we arrived so late last night that i didn't
get a video of the inside but it's very simple um very cheap i think it's about 20 us dollars
a night or something for the room that we got so very affordable right in like the sort of city um
center now one of the famous things to do here is go to concubine lane or street where you can get
nice coffee and it looks like pretty with the street art and street murals and things like that
these places on the side crossing the road too these places are open they'll close when it came
through this morning and it smells so good you don't even understand this smells like fresh
bread baked pastries fresh food there's a lot of people around right now oh wow that's the lane
i'm a dinosaur friend so we're just walking through
the market the lane now and it's so busy there's lots of like jewelry
rings sunglasses there's oh what's that i can smell food there's juices
that's that's not kaya yeah we'll have that one yeah yeah yeah and then um the white coffee
so we're walking down the lane and we got to the very end and we saw the harry potter cafe nine
and three quarters that i wanted to go to really badly but the line was so long that i just didn't
want to wait in it so we came next door and we had something that the grab driver actually told
us was really popular here it's called was it eco white coffee and i don't know what it is i don't i
don't really know much about it i just know that it's quite popular so i'm going to try it out
oh that tastes like a white chocolate mocha that's so nice oh thank you i really like this
i like it it's sweet i don't normally like sweet coffee which is why i'm a little bit confused
but i like it but we also got a little bit of roti bakar as well so this one
has kaya butter just a snack together okay we've got a lot of food coming up
oh you're right it's a little bit chocolatey well you know what i kind of like this more
than my morning life so you get me also got a milo ice if you know me if you watch my videos
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milo girl or milo ice that's how i know that you watched this part of the video because this
is what i get all the time i always try and fit in a nice mallow no matter where we are
okay so now we are back in the market and we found this um like stringy rainbow
cheese toasting i'm gonna try it
could be wrapped around your arms instead of being lonely we could be gazing at the stars but now it
feels just like a wonder dog okay so now we are just heading for a little short walk through the
other side of this video that we haven't seen yet to get some bean sprout chicken so let's
go find this restaurant and let's try this this is apparently one of the dishes we found online
that said you have to try here when you're in air first so let's go now my body's shaking i'm tired
of twirling in the dark it's just that my heart can't take it okay so we have come here and this
like is walked in we walked into this really like busy sort of lively bustling area this is crazy
this big like circle pattern in the middle of this intersection and we are at restaurant i am luang
for this chicken this bean sprout chicken let's have a look if we can find it there's no seeds
so this is probably the one of the two busiest and most popular restaurants for this year
in april apparently the competition the arrival is just next door but we're going to try this so
it looks just like chinese chicken but this one is poached and then it's dunked straight into
like water like cold water so it stops that cooking process and it like stays perfectly
cooked it has a lot of soy sauce um which so i think it's mixed with more soy sauce
um white pepper and what was the other thing sesame oil or something no that's
that's the bean sprouts oh the bean sprouts have sesame oil as well and lots of sauce i'm seeing
like lots of dark soy like sauce so it smells almost peanutty smelling smells like peanuts
and pepper i have like very two overwhelming smells right now oh so soft
so soft it almost breaks apart and really salty and like sweet
like soy sauce you know what i mean and the crunch of the bean sprouts is like really
contrasting with the softness of the chicken i don't
that you try and you think i'll do it because i want to try the dish in the city
but i really like this it's good so the more i'm having this
the more like bites i take the more it's really nice like i was actually i didn't expect honestly
to like it i just thought i would try it but i actually really like it like it's nice
i think i love the soy sauce with the cucumbers the most is that weird
i think that's weird normally i'm a chicken girl and i love the cucumbers in the soy sauce
this is delicious it's just cucumbers and soy sauce i don't know why i like it so much
okay so we've made it to a restaurant tianjun and this is actually the second or third place we've
tried to go to to get this egg custard it looks like a caramelized kanakaderi type thing i'm not
sure and we're actually here to get the white coffee but i'm going to try it hot this time
that way i've tried both ways but honestly to be completely honest with you it's really hot today i
don't know if you can tell but i'm super red i'm really hot i'm really sweaty we've been walking
around all day the way we had the chicken earlier was about a kilometer that way and then we walked
kilometer back then we went to a place down the street they didn't have this so we walked about a
kilometer this way down the street so we're really hot and it's a hot day i'm feeling a little bit
hot i'm feeling a little bit tired i'm feeling a little bit flustered i'm feeling a little bit
uh like worn out at the moment but we're gonna try this custard stuff and the white coffee
we ordered the white coffee that we got earlier but i've noticed straight
away this one's a lot darker than the one we were given this morning
so i'm just going to try yours to see how all the ice one tastes different
oh it's like 10 times more sweet have you tried that yeah
i don't like that one as much i think the other one had less sweetness which is what i like i like
less sweet and coffee we have the hot version here which i had to try but i had to traverse
so if you watch this and you're like you have to try the hot one i'm here and i can try it
so let's try oh it's like super hot it's got more of a like bird sort of taste you know when you
have like a burnt coffee if that makes sense it kind of tastes like that i do think i prefer the
cold version but the cold version from earlier not so much this one i think this one's way too small
for me but the one earlier was really nice i'm not sure what i mean obviously there's a difference
everywhere you go a little bit of variation which one do you like tell me in the comments do you
like the cold version of what coffee or do you like the hot version you tell me in the comments
below and we'll see who wins but we have what i've been waiting for all day this egg custard
well it looks like a cream caramel that's the name i was looking for cream caramel or
panna cotta type thing so it seems to me like in this oh i just took a bit out of it by accident
i'm on the fence yeah yeah i really like it i think the texture is what kind of puts me
a little bit on on the fence i'm like a very big texture person if i don't like the texture
of something it's hard for me to like to taste the texture is very gelatinous very
eggy but jelly like the sweetness perfect i love how sweet it is i love that it's like i like
dessert but i think the way that it kind of falls apart it just puts me off a little bit above the
taste perfect uh what do you call it like sugar sweet perfect like eggy type things i love eggs
pretty perfect i just think it's the way the texture is okay i'm gonna finish this off tell
me in the comments below as well do you like red custard it'll be really interesting to see if you
guys like it okay so that's it for our day here in ipoh in malaysia is it malaysia's most underrated
city might very well be the old city buildings and the street art and the amazing colors and vibrancy
of this city is amazing but the place we're going next might just top it let me know comments below
where you think we're going tell me your guesses where are we going next where are we off to
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a bunch but we have a buster catch so i'll see you in the next one in our next place bye