Ipoh | Ming Court | Upside Down World | Concubine Lane | Nam Heong | Funny Mountain | Tambun

Brayden 8Y9M12D

Bevlynn 4Y6M5D

Road trip to Ipoh. It was easy to wake the children up. They were excited and prepared by 7:00am. 

First stop, dim sum breakfast at Ming Court. The place was already very crowded by the time we arrived. The dim sum were made in smaller sizes, it was easier for the children to eat. I especially liked the black sesame dessert. 

We then moved our way to Upside Down World Ipoh. There are various upside down theme in the 3-storey building. The difficulty was to get two children act out the part for the photo taking. They are constantly questioning "Why? How will it looked upside down?" Then they came up with various ideas which doesn't work. Mommy and Bro Max were getting less energetic by the time we reached the 3rd floor. But we still liked how the shots turned out despite the countless NG photos. 

The place is a short walking distance to Concubine Lane. The narrow lane was really crowded. There were street vendors, various shops along the lane. I wondered the name meant anything significant, and found from the internet that this place used to be a location where concubines resided. O goodness, I cannot imagine having concubines staying in one location. There must have been loads of drama and untold love triangles. Well it's very different now, it has become and attraction. The children picked some nice hats, we could use them, the sun was scorching hot and unforgiving. 

We then drove to Nam Heong Coffee Shop for some egg tarts, chee cheong fun, char koay teow and white coffee. It was all good except that we were already very full at this point. Bro Max was suggesting the next few spots for good food. We chose to have a relaxing afternoon at Jalan Theatre Coffee. Bev loved playing with the cat there. The coffee was good but the rose earl grey cake was a little too sweet for my taste. I continued with my book reading. 

After awhile of resting, we walked to Funny Mountain to have some soya milk and beancurd. Bro Max also bought 2 packets of salted bake chicken (yim kok kai) from nearby stall.

We left Ipoh around 4:30pm as we had decided to have dinner at Tambun - Jetty Seafood. We choose the corner table to have a better view of the sunset by the river. We had satay, fish, noodle, chi lei, balitong. vegetable. I was surprised when the bill came. It was less than RM150. Such a good hearty meal for an affordable price. 

Time to head home.