Tong Sui Kai curry mee

Last month I went to Ipoh with Doris on a touristic trip. We visited no less than seven temples… but that is not for this post.

This post will be about food!

I had never properly eaten at Tong Sui Kai before, and this time we tried a few things. The only thing I liked was the curry mee.

My friend said that she said no to the pork skin and something else. I'm not sure how it would have looked like otherwise.

Additional ingredients picked out to go with with curry mee.

I never really liked this kind of chee cheong fun anyway. My friend liked it. I regret letting her choose between this and the curry chee cheong fun (there were five items on the menu, and these were the only two I felt I could eat); I should have chosen the curry one directly. But then maybe she would have found it hard to swallow… you’ll see why below below :P

The biscuit is too thick to be properly crispy, and the sotong kangkung is a bit…strange. It seems like the whole sauce is made with peanuts? And there are more peanuts sprinkled on top. I like peanuts (especially the sprinkled ones), but the creamy sauce is not for me… the same way I don’t really like creamy peanut butter, I guess. And the kangkung is all at the bottom.

So the only thing I would order again from these is the curry mee. However my friend didn’t like it…she says it was too spicy. (for her :P )

We have quite different tastes in this respect… we also went to Choong Kee for their yong tau foo. My family prefers Ah Peng’s yong tau foo (in the same area), but we didn’t go there because it’s only open till around noon, and we had other things to eat up to lunchtime :P So we went to Choong Kee for a late lunch/snack.

I asked for curry soup this time, since I didn’t recall that their soup (or yong tau foo, for that matter) tasted good. The curry soup was definitely better than the clear soup. And here my friend liked the curry, while I said that it was not spicy enough :P 

We had also gone to Moon de Moon earlier (where I didn’t take any photos because I had already done so before), and we ordered some of their fishball items. She disliked some of the fishballs because they were too bouncy (“kew”, or “Q”), while that is what we like about Ah Peng’s yong tau foo… So I think going to Choong Kee was a better choice for her! (and now I see why Choong Kee can be so famous :P )