All Inn Cafe - Ipoh Stopover Day 1

After having my lunch at Kong Heng Coffee Shop, it was time for some tong sui and dessert. Kafe All Inn is located opposite Kong Heng. It is the corner shop from accross the road.

Eventhough I was already full after my lunch at Kong Heng, I guess my stomach still has room for this delicious looking kuih. The red-green-yellow kuih is actually sago with dessicated coconut while the layered one in the background is black sesame kuih with coconut milk. I like kuih with pandan and coconut flavour.

“All Inn Cafe - Ipoh Stopover Day 1”, a copyrighted post, was written for Klang, Malaysia Daily Photo blog by Autumn Belle @ http://mymalaysiadailyphoto.blogspot.com/ on December 14th, 2010.

Leng Chee Kang tong sui with lotus seeds, barley, gingko nuts, snow fungus, dried longan flesh, dates and a quail egg. Some like it hot but I love it with ice cubes.

This is Sai Mai Lo with water melon, yellow jelly, sago and tapioca pearls swimming in evaporated milk and coconut milk. Of course the base is pandan flavoured sugar water. A very cool and refreshing drink when some ice cubes are added.

Other deserts available at All Inn Cafe are:

• Bo Bo Cha Cha
• black glutinous rice
• Barley with soy bean curd and red bean
• Sago with fruits
• Aloe vera with dates and longan
• Guillinggao (turtle jelly) with red bean (their bestseller)
• Pumpkin with yam

They offer about 50 varieties of desserts but only 10 are available at any one day, a different selection every day. Besdes dessert drinks, All Inn Cafe also sells curry noodles, fried noodles, Hakka noodles, glutinuous rice with kaya and nasi lemak. They are opened from 7:30am to 4pm daily but closed on the last Friday to Sunday of each month.

Ipoh is famous for tong sui. We like to take tong sui because we believe that it is good for the complexion. Where else in Malaysia can we get good tong sui? Do let me know. 

Besides Kafe All Inn, tong sui is also available at a few other places such as:

a) "Tong Sui Kai" at Church Street, Off Jalan Sultan Idris and in front of Sam Tet School.
b) Macy Restaurant beside the overhead highway bridge in Ipoh Garden East
c) Sin Hong Kee at Cowan Street (previously from Tong Sui Kai).

Therefore when you come to Ipoh, don't miss out on the tong sui!

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Dessert Street, Ipoh Tong Sui Kai

“Dessert Street, Ipoh Tong Sui Kai”, a copyrighted post, was written for Klang, Malaysia Daily Photo blog by Autumn Belle @ http://mymalaysiadailyphoto.blogspot.com/ on 10th July 2010.

Dessert Street or Ipoh Tong Sui Kai (糖水街) is located at Church Street (Jalan Gereja), Off Jalan Sultan Idris Shah. My favourite eating place in the late evenings is here along this road that is located just next to Sam Tet Primary & Secondary School, Ipoh.  Here's some of my favourite stalls:

Stall no. 21

Here is my favourite tong sui stall where I can find the most delicious deserts, ABC, nyonya kuih, jelly with ice-shavings, Bo Bo Cha Cha, sweet potato, sago, black bean, red bean (红豆沙),  black sesame soup (芝麻糊). Not too sweet but just nice and you can take it hot or cold.

Nyonya desserts such as 9-layered kuih, maize, sago, pak-tong (white sugar) kuih, woon chai (small saucer) kuih all have that special pandan flavour.

Stall no. 18 sells Porridge with a choice of mix pig innards (chee chap chok), frog legs, fish or chicken.

Stall no. 19 sells wanton and soup noodles. There's another one nearby that sells Bah-Kut-Teh, Ipoh style.

Leng Chee Kang (清补凉)  is a tong sui made from dried longans, dried persimmons, quail eggs, snow fungus, barley, gingo seeds and lotus seeds.

Pig offals porridge

Other stalls include Ipoh fried koay teow, stir fried dishes made to order, beef noodles, sotong-kangkong (cuttlefish with water spinach). Some of the hawkers have been selling the same food from their family's secret recipes for many years.

This is one of the place I miss the most whenever I have to leave Ipoh to go back home.

Wenn, you are so lucky!

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All Inn Cafe for Tong Shui Desserts in Ipoh

The All Inn Cafe in Ipoh Old Town is located opposite Kedai Kopi Kong Heng. It has a very creative name, big colourfull posters of mouth-watering desserts and kueh. Looks good. I have tried the 'tong shui' here. It tastes good.

All Inn Cafe

2, Jalan Panglima

30000 Ipoh, Perak

Tel: 019-5569872 or 016-5571263 (Contact: May Lee)

As shown in the picture above, our deserts soups and herbal drinks use a lot of fragrant pandan (Pandanus amaryllifolius) leaves. Some of the ingredients used include the following:

a) dried stuff like longan, lotus seeds, fungus
b) canned lai chees
c) pumpkin
d) tubers such as yam, sweet potato, tapioca
e) grains such as wheat, sago, barley,
f) coconut milk
g) beans such as red beans, mung beans, black beans
i) sesame seeds including black sesame seeds
j) glutinous rice (black and white)
k) gula melaka (sugar molasses), rock sugar, cane sugar
l) quail eggs
m) fruits such as honey dew, papaya

Many of us believe that drinking 'tong shui' helps towards a good complexion. It also 'cools down' our system during heaty spells.

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This is also my entry for Thursday Challenge Theme which is "FOOD (Meals, Restaurants, Eating, Vegetables, Unusual Foods, Cooking, BBQs,...)".