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5 Places in Ipoh You Must Be Go To Try Their Famous Food  1. Nam Heong White Coffee (Egg tarts and White coffee) Nam Heong White Coffee is  the corner coffee shop located at the intersection of Jalan Bandar Timah and Persiaran Bijeh Timah. Nam Heong's signature foamy kopi (coffee with milk). This is the famous Ipoh White Coffee. Ipoh White Coffee had slight bitterness was balanced with condensed milk and sugar. The cold version of this kopi with ice cubes added is also very popular. For me, I love the smell of eggs from the freshly baked egg tarts. The soft eggy custard was held in a lightly browned pastry cup. The custard was mildly eggy and not overly sweet. The layered pastry cup was light and flaky, crumbling to gentle bites. ·           Address:  2, Jalan Bandar Timah, 30000 Ipoh, Negeri Perak ·           Opening hours:  7:00am to 5:30pm ·     ...

4 Must-Visit Attractions in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia 1.Sam Poh Tong Temple Sam Poh Tong temple, located in Gunung Rapat, 5km south of Ipoh. Sam Poh Tong, discovered in 1912, is a Chinese Buddhist Temple within a natural limestone hill. Developed by the Buddhist community and now has become an international tourist spot attracting visitors from all over the world. The temple is an impressive work of art and faith, with various statues of Buddha among natural stalactites and sttalagmites. There are a beautifully decorated pavillion in front of the temple and a landscaped garden with a fish pool, which was awarded "The Best Landscaped Garden" in Malaysia 1993. Other attraction of Sam Poh Tong includes a 246-steps staircase which will lead people to an open are with excellent view of Ipoh and its surrounding. The climb will take about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on your stamina. There is also a pond where visitors can feed tortoise with stalks of vegetables and a wi...

Welcome to Ipoh Ipoh, the state capital of Perak and third-biggest city in Malaysia. It grew rich on the tin trade, which transformed it within the space of forty years at the end of the nineteenth century from a tiny kampung in a landscape dominated by dramatic limestone outcrops to a sprawling boom town. Now a metropolis of over half a million people, Ipoh is a far cry from the original village on this site. Perak had been renowned for its rich tin deposits since the sixteenth century, which made it vulnerable to attempts from rival chiefs to seize the throne and thus gain control of the lucrative tin trade. However, it wasn't until the discovery of a major field in 1880 that Ipoh's fortunes turned; before long it became a prime destination for pioneers, merchants and fortuneseekers from all over the world, and a cosmopolitan city, something reflected in the broad mix of cultures today. To accommodate the rapidly increasing population, between 1905 and 1914 the city expan...