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Was in Ipoh again after more than 15 years. Everything looks almost the same except for the traffic jam. According to a friend, the jam is caused by tourists visiting Ipoh for weekend trip. Most of them come to Ipoh for food, ( what else? haha)
This friend of mine suggested that instead of cramping and fighting for food, chairs and tables with the "outsiders", we should take a short drive south to Tanjung Tualang for their famous fresh water prawns. Of course I said a big YES. It's always good if someone offer to drive you to some small town to try something famous that you yourself won't do it in on your own.
It was a short 50 minutes drive from Ipoh, passing a few historical towns and places like Papan, Batu Gajah, Pusing and tin mining dredge. He suggested we try this restaurant which is less touristy. Restaurant Thong Lok is located in the middle of a single story shoplots and is hidden under a big tree. It's pretty easy to find it as Tanjung Tualang is a very small town with only few rows of shops.
The signage is quite obvious if you are driving on the correct street. Can you see the big tree? I bet it's more than a hundred year old. The kitchen must be small to make their workers prep in front of the shop.
There are few aquariums placed outside the shop storing fresh water prawns of multiple sizes, small, big and bigger. There is one special aquarium to keep soon hock. The precious over priced fish!
We ordered 5 dishes: 1 kg of fresh water prawns, prepared 2 ways. (Steamed and butter prawns), taufu, steamed sambal fish and a plate of veggie.
The above pic is a bird view of dishes we ordered.
Stir-fried ferns with sambal belacan. A must-order veggie here. The ferns taste nice with crunchy texture. RM8.00
The next dish is steamed fresh water fish with sambal and soft taufu. I didn't get the name of the fish as they were telling my friend in mandarin. Doesn't matter what's the name, it tasted fresh, meat was sweet, tender and soft. Not over cooked. RM25.00
The last dish that we had, was deep fried taufu sprinkled with generous amount of fried anchovies and fresh parsley. I love this style of cooking taufu. A little bit crunchy and fried texture on the outside and soft on the inside. We only paid RM 8.00 for this big plate of tafu. Very cheap.
This friend of mine suggested that instead of cramping and fighting for food, chairs and tables with the "outsiders", we should take a short drive south to Tanjung Tualang for their famous fresh water prawns. Of course I said a big YES. It's always good if someone offer to drive you to some small town to try something famous that you yourself won't do it in on your own.
It was a short 50 minutes drive from Ipoh, passing a few historical towns and places like Papan, Batu Gajah, Pusing and tin mining dredge. He suggested we try this restaurant which is less touristy. Restaurant Thong Lok is located in the middle of a single story shoplots and is hidden under a big tree. It's pretty easy to find it as Tanjung Tualang is a very small town with only few rows of shops.
There are few aquariums placed outside the shop storing fresh water prawns of multiple sizes, small, big and bigger. There is one special aquarium to keep soon hock. The precious over priced fish!
We ordered 5 dishes: 1 kg of fresh water prawns, prepared 2 ways. (Steamed and butter prawns), taufu, steamed sambal fish and a plate of veggie.
The above pic is a bird view of dishes we ordered.
Stir-fried ferns with sambal belacan. A must-order veggie here. The ferns taste nice with crunchy texture. RM8.00
Fresh water prawns cooked butter style. It is always my favourite cooking style. It's perfect with creamy and buttery taste. The prawns are indeed very fresh.
The next dish is fresh water prawns steamed plain "Cheng" style. We didn't want it steamed with White York. We prefer plain as to be able to taste the real freshness flavour from the the prawns. We paid RM85.00 per kg for Fresh water prawns. We took a kg and they divided them to two dishes.
The next dish is steamed fresh water fish with sambal and soft taufu. I didn't get the name of the fish as they were telling my friend in mandarin. Doesn't matter what's the name, it tasted fresh, meat was sweet, tender and soft. Not over cooked. RM25.00
We enjoyed our lunch very much. It was worth the travelling time and effort. The food was delicious, fresh and cheap. The workers were friendly and helpful. Can't ask for better service from bunch of waitresses who got to serve a fully packed restaurant.
Will return one day to this small town Tanjung Tualang, but hopefully not in 15 years time 😜
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