Food hunting at Kampar - A small town 45 minutes away from Ipoh

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if you want to have a great weekend morning, full of nice food.

I had a nice weekend. Why? It's because I'd some nice food! We woke up early in the morning of Sunday, drove to Kampar for a food hunting trip.

My friend was following me to Ipoh . And I just thought that I would like to introduce her to the delicious Kampar food, other than Ipoh food.

So, you should know that Ipoh is my hometown. Now, I would like to introduce my mother's hometown to you too. Kampar, it's a small town at the south of Ipoh. You can reach Kampar using the North-South Expressway. Exit at the Gopeng Toll and continue driving to the south using the old road.

Basically, among all sort of delicious food in Kampar, two of them are my favorite. They are egg tarts from “Kam Leng” dim sum restaurant and “Ham Kok Jai” (salty dumpling) from a small mobile-hawker near the Kampar market.

Besides my favorite food, “Low Su Fun” and fried meat ball, are “Loh Mai Fan” (glutinous rice) are very famous too!

Back to our Sunday food hunting trip in Kampar. We reached “Kam Ling” dim sum restaurant around 8.30am to buy the popular egg tarts before it sold out. And we were lucky on that day. We bought 10 egg tarts. My friend loves it very much.

After that, we headed to the food court near the Kampar Market. There is a restaurant called “Kampar Fye Hoong Restaurant”, located just adjacent to the food court. We were looking for the man selling “Ham Kok Chai” on his motorcycle. He is selling the salty dumpling in front of the restaurant.

This dumpling selling business was started about 3 decades ago by his mother, shouting "Ham Kok Chai" from door to door.

The salty dumpling is my mother and my grandmother's favorite too! Thus, we bought 8 packs, totaling about 120 salty dumplings. My friend was a bit shocked. She didn't know that our family members can take the salty dumplings as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now you should know that we are really crazy for it!

Later on, we continued our journey by having breakfast at the food court. We ate the famous Kampar “Low Su Fun” and fried meat ball.

Besides, we took away few packs of glutinous rice with curry for my dad.

That had ended our food hunting trip at Kampar. However, there are more food available at the market. For example, the food shown in pictures below. We just didn't have enough time for it. If you've got the chance, just walk around the market and take whatever looks nice to you. =)

There is another restaurant in Kampar, which is famous with its curry chicken/herbal chicken bread. It's a big loaf of bread with curry chicken or herbal chicken inside. Oh yea, forgot to mention that the restaurant is called “Yau Kee”.