all right headed to ippo for some chinese food with our friends crystal and cunyo
so in true movie magic let's do the next four hour train ride in
maybe 40 seconds let's go excuse me where's the ats yes
thank you
95 ringgit for two tickets
okay guys slight correction not actually four hours
rather one hour 40 minutes right somehow i misremembered
all right we have made it to ipo don't be a cheapo i tell you what um shout out to that train super
nice had a laptop plug the bathroom was pretty clean five-star train experience yeah and shout
out to me for not being able to tell time or do basic math i started the vlog by saying it
was four hours depot and i said it was an hour and forty turns out two and a half hours final answer
to evo so we're here now let's go it was editing the whole time dude i finished the vlog in the
train i felt like i was a business professional multitasking okay next stop we'll check into our
homestay meet up with our friend crystal and cunyo who are actually i should say crystal is from here
so she's balik now to ippo and uh then we'll go get some food because i am hungry left my
ken mccann pretty nice station oh looks like an old train station you're right
maybe i'm guessing british era not sure but we've got four days in epo with our friends who are
from here lots of food and history and cool stuff travel vlogs galore let's go exit okay thank you
okay crystal is there ready for us oh so nice
hello hello hello hi so good to see you
check it out guys this is why you travel with locals this is our guest house and it
comes equipped with eight dogs yo nice place the best oh this one's sleeping
what do you say vanna
haven't even seen the bedroom yet already five stars
fantastic oh perfect we can sleep here and we can have a party over here
we can do we can do breakdancing over here all right absolutely fantastic guest house
we're staying in which is the extra house of uh crystal and cunia's relatives so special
thanks to them we've got a little bit of a crew forming here a bunch of locals who are
food experts and yvonne and i have not eaten today i'm so hungry i'm about to fall over let's go eat
all right guys it's time for some roast duck which is an ipo specialty
the roast duck from ippo is famous and the rose stock from this particular restaurant is famous
within the already famousness now usually we give you a shot of the outside of the restaurant
to see the sign but uh pouring rain so here we are at sun young mai let's go i'm super hungry
all right first things first big shout out to the staff here who are working incredibly
hard and what's amazing is it's actually 3 p.m so we missed the lunch rush and yet this place
is more or less full quite crowded so i believe it's good food unfortunately we've missed this
signature duck because sold out so we have to settle for the pipa duck uh but i will say
check out the plate guys absolutely cannot beat it we've got roast off we've got roast
pork we've got cabbage chilies rice oh my gosh i'm so hungry let's eat i can't wait
all right
you see this a lot in hong kong
oh just nice guys
wow the rose god guys the flavor is packed in there the skin and the meat is actually incredibly
moist and juicy and just delicious absolutely five star eating i love a restaurant that's got
the live animal on the wall it's like going to a steakhouse and seeing that antlers on the wall
just right but you can tell the specialty is duck because it's roasted to perfection and so juicy
you know what it is about duck it's the skin that's so good isn't it
the flavor is packed in it i mean i didn't realize
actually pickled vegetables yeah that's right they're having malay too kind of similar the
pickled veg quite nice as a palette cleanser you just realized i'm eating with a soup spoon i don't
know if that's normal in chinese restaurants but we also did learn that if someone is pouring your
teeth for you you can tap the table to say thank you especially if your mouth is full of food so uh
as my friend is serving me tea i'm tapping the table to do my best chinese culture impression
man duck is such an underrated and under utilized
food are there many countries that eat a lot in china do you think of any more
mostly in asia and mostly china sort of like chicken that's more flavorful bigger better
chicken actually it's more dense or something it's more dense and the skin is thicker and it really
packs a punch in the skin and the fat is so good shout out to duck man yeah it's very good and this
one is cooked with herbs chinese syrup so you can really taste it it's very good and like the soy
sauce is very good and pro tip is get the juice that's in the plate of the of the and pour it on
your rice and then you're in food heaven right duck drippings on rice five stars five stars
and then you can also get like we got chicken as well and pork and it's very good as well very nice
all right the damage has been done every plate totally empty and i will admit that i cleaned
the end of all the plates everybody was full but me absolutely five-star duck now we are going for
some dessert now and my understanding is it is some sort of soybean dessert
so you guys know me i'm not the biggest fan so i'll do my best to find the goodness in the uh
soybean dessert and hey the rain has stopped or at least slowed down all right next stop dessert
big mom bean curd a funny name unfortunately closed today
oh it's your friend big mom bean curd okay so the food hunt continues because uh
no big mom bean curd today
all right night has fallen here in april rather quickly because we got a late start today because
of the train ride uh now first things first we're going to try a modern twist on an old
classic this is called snow beer so they've got the beer to a perfect temperature where when
they open it and pour it it immediately freezes a little nervous to try because beer to me is not a
recipe that needs adjustment but uh willing to try the semi-frozen maybe you chew it we'll see
oh it's just really cold beer
nice cold beer very refreshing cheers i will say this we did get a nice tour of downtown i
should say old town eagle we learned a lot about the history so people was in fact the richest
city in malaysia up until as recently as the 1960s because of the tin mine so there was a huge
mining business and because of that as we know chinese people were historically the best miners
this is why ipo is more chinese population and this is why the chinese food here is so good
because of generations and generations of chinese right people so the whole old town area there's
some really cool spots and a bunch of good food we should try and upcoming videos as well as history
we will dig into although today we were a little tight for time because we took the train here this
morning all right uh that being said let me go give a cheers to my friends behind here okay and
then uh we'll get some chinese food coming should be four days of chinese food yeah and even like
better than that chinese restaurants everywhere even halal chinese friends restaurants and um we
do have four lovely tour guides we're all chinese so we're in good hands with some locals who can
take us to the good spots so cheers everybody and let's have some chinese cheers let's eat again
all right trying what tan [ __ ] what's it called guatenhor it's like um it's like
it's like but more soupy really soupy more like liquidy and it's a specialty here in nepal
it's very famous here it looks quite good and you got a big prawn there yeah strong
i think i think the noodle is actually quite the out yeah
but it's not it's not char it's like uh soupy i think they've added egg sauce all that kind
of goopiness looks super satisfying that looks like some delicious chinese food right there
and look yvonne is ivana's taking a souvenir home with her on her shirt right there oh no
let's take it let's take away let's step out look at this chicken wing
three different types of noodles uh and this one is salted egg sauton salted eggs
squid and salted egg is a very strong flavor
pretty good five stars ivana it's gonna be a nice uh week here in ipoh because we've
got a lot of food to eat all right round two uh fermented bean curd chicken wing oh which
to be honest does not sound like something i would like fermented mean curd chicken wing
in canada we have buffalo chicken wings or hot sauce chicken wings right let's try it
pressure's on suspense uh i tell you what chicken wings cannot be bad quite good that's good third
is very subtle flavor yeah the texture and the crispiness of chicken wing is so familiar to me
that uh very nice and i will say this i found my new beer food what is it this is salted egg sauce
you want to show you obviously salty you make it a little bit spicy and it prepares your mouth
very well for a sort of beer and actually the first time in my life i enjoyed salted egg really
every time i saw the egg before it was off my palate but what does it taste like
crispy for some reason usually when i taste salted egg i taste bloodshed it tastes kind
of fish somehow but this one is uh just tastes like salty like egg yolk goodness egg yolk on top
yeah yeah and they got like some korean leaves on top too like they cook it with curry leaves
yeah very good it's going to be a bunch of five-star meals it's very good okay let's continue
just finished every single dish right every plate cleaned uh the winner of the day was
the salted egg oh that was so good that was the best that's really nice and shout out to the bean
curd chicken wings my my brain was telling me it's not good and it was very good yeah do you
feel like the bean curd taste the bean curd taste was very subtle but it was still quite
flavorful because the difference is in canada the chicken wings are covered in sauce yeah and your
hands get all goopy quite delicious but quite messy this one's very clean and simple looking
yeah quite nice yeah very nice and somehow we're going to find a room for dessert
so we're going to try to make something and we're going to have some dessert all right nice
yeah good job everyone look at that empty empty by the way guys this is not me being rude this
is okay to put uh your bones and your oh yeah on the table like right [ __ ] yeah yeah yeah
in canada if you put anything on the table that's what i mean but here it's okay yeah yeah all right
all right shout out to rainbow city for being completely full and i mean completely full at
11 o'clock at night i think it's evidence that uh equalians eat dinner relatively late all
right because this is bedtime again but we've got two desserts that might blow your mind if you're
not malaysian we've got ice cucum yeah as well what's this called it's ice caching fruit fruit
so two years ago i remember remarking that ice kachang was assembled at random it's just stuff
i said it's corn it's peanuts it's green and red and it was just assembled at random so obviously
i have to take that statement back because i got absolutely killed in the comments for that and
since then i've had ice cream chunks many times uh-huh it sort of works there's a strange way
in which ice kitchen works for every crunchy thing there's a mushy thing for every sweet
thing there's a savory thing it's sort of balanced and it's cold delicious right ingredients right so
look at this two types you can see the cendol and grass jelly and this is more fruity jelly and ice
cream on top and pearls like tapioca pearls nice mangoes and watermelons that's good with chocolate
ice cream on top doesn't taste it doesn't taste like anything you've had before it's 20 different
flavors at once okay it's quite good we gotta eat it before it melts right don't be shy yeah
go ahead watermelon balls yeah look at that how do you eat how do i go again i need any ice cream
tapioca
look at this it's just
a bunch of good yummy cold stuff when's the last time you had mango and peanuts oh that's
a good bite mango peanut uh passion fruit uh uh dragon fruit dragon fruit story uh purple stuff
brown stuff green stuff that looks amazing name of color with ice shavings with rose syrup i think
it's very good
but very good and a crunchy peanut in there yeah i mean it's really cool too sweet or not
no it's quite nice wow it's very good because it's more let me try pretty but let me try it
dragon fruit mango i wasted a mango you're you're laughing at me don't know how to eat
it and you're shooting it all over the room you want a little bit of ice cream
okay grab a little bit of mango again and the jelly and some roast syrup i don't to be honest
i don't like peanuts on the dessert peanut and dessert same so i left the peanut on the side
we just iron like because it's called ice kacha kachong peanuts oh it's called iced peanuts
yeah i didn't realize that same to me the least favorite part is peanuts yeah the peanut this
is not my favorite that's fine this looks good like a good fight looks good i mean looks yummy
cold right brain freeze i wonder what's the malay word for brain freeze wow it's not the
sweet actually it's great it's quite refreshing and the dragon fruit is always sour which is nice
it's very balanced yeah although it looks very perplexing to the canadian tongue it's uh it's
quite balanced oh it looks good no and it must be good because full of wubbles absolutely
full of looks yeah i see one empty table to be honest other than that cool all right let's see
mango places like all right there you have it guys a full day of eating has finished
and we've got many more to come here in ipoh so big thank you to our four hosts crystal cooney
cohen and edith taking this around for the next couple days lots of things to eat lots
of things to do a couple museums tomorrow so stay tuned for more ippo good stuff
i'm talking slow because i'm so full of food i'm about to fall over that
ice kitchen was really good though all right there you have it guys see you later