A visit to Ipoh is incomplete without a meal here at Lim Kopi.
There was a big Chinese festivity ongoing when I paid a visit there, so the queue and the wait itself was pretty long. A craving for all things local had brought me here to fulfil my satisfaction.
I had the soft boiled eggs, double slices of kaya butter toast and an egg custard.
Imagine dipping those crispy toast which are slathered with butter and kaya into the soft boiled eggs!
The toast was nothing short of amazing and it goes together well with the eggs.
Lim Kopi is my personal favourite place to get my egg custard cravings fixed and this place surely did well in terms of the sweetness and texture. It was very light in texture, the sweetness was not overpowering at all.

my personal favorite would be the Ontama Bukkake Udon which looks bland but don't let the appearance deceive you as their udons pack a punch of flavour! I opine that their portions here are pretty generous and reasonably priced for those who are tight on their wallet.
For those who loves having eggs with their noodles, do not miss out on their Mori-no-tamago, which is basically a type of Japanese egg that can be eaten raw. The texture of the noodles were really chewy. All their noodles are made fresh daily at the restaurant. If you're craving for a side dish and something to bite on after finishing your udon, their tempura is a great choice and my personal favourite would be the plain kakiage with or without egg. Both are equally good. The texture of the freshly fried tempuras were really crispy and it was not that oily.

This is my definition of brain and body fuel.
Upon the soft launch of their new branch in Sri Petaling, we were granted 20% the whole bill for our dine-in. After going through pages and pages of their wide variety of soft serves with different unique toppings, I have decided to settle down for their dark chocolate soft serve and traditional matcha parfait.
Softsrve collaborated with Royce Chocolate and came up with a creation called Traditional Matcha Parfait which comes in a plastic cup layered with matcha honey soft serve, shiratama dango, kinako crunch, adzuki red bean paste, Royce R chocolat and Royce's baton cookies(golden-baked coconut cookies with a coating of chocolate on one side!)
The shiratama dango(s) which are basically Japanese Sweet Rice dumplings were very chewy but they are plain in flavor blends in well with the rest of the other ingredients in the matcha parfait.I find that the honey flavor in the matcha honey soft serve a tad bit overpowering and wish that they could tone it down a little 
Their selling point in all their soft serves are the presentation. Every cup comes with a voluminous water fog that slowly goes away within 3 minutes.
And lastly, I had the dark chocolate which is served in a paper cup, finished off with a topping of assorted nuts and chocolate drizzle which was nothing short of ordinary. It was nothing to shout about. The texture of the matcha and chocolate soft serves were equally the same and it took much faster time to melt as compared to ice creams 

Blurring the lines between breakfast and tea treat with this brilliant creation of a hybrid between a croissant and donut which is the Cronut 😋 pictured here on the left is the salted egg yolk Cronut while on the right is the speculoos (cookie butter) stuffed in cuboid shaped bread topped off with icing sugar!The former's texture was crispy and buttery but the saltiness of the salted egg yolk sauce could be improvised. The sweetness of the sauce was really overpowering and toned down the saltiness of it. Moving on, the cuboid shaped bread stuffed with the speculoos butter was quite bland as the filling was not enough to complement with the plain bread. Nevertheless, I will still return to try their other flavoured cronuts, donuts, croissants, breads as well as naked tarts!

There are many places for dim sum in Ipoh and Ming court is one of the preferred choice by the locals.
In comparison to those dim sum served in kl, the ones here are much smaller in size but pack as much flavour as it seems.
Ming Court also serves sweet soups such as desserts, or Tong Sui. Especially something which is calorie-worthy, is the black sesame dessert, (Chi Ma Wu), which can easily be shared between two. Whereby the usual norm in dim sum outlets are desserts in the form of egg tarts, or beancurd jelly with longan, at Ming Court you can find Tong Sui, to end your meal on a sweet note I had a fair share of their egg tarts and to be honest, the crust was too thick for my liking. While the steam fish balls were acceptable, it didn't taste too fishy and they got the texture right. The glutinous rice with chicken, braised phoenix claws (chicken feet!), stuffed eggplants, and of course, the mandatory hargao (prawn dimsum) and siumai (pork dimsum) are the few must orders and try.

Within minutes after the teapot arrived on our table, we were swarmed by ladies holding trays and trays of dimsum recommending the few bestselling dim sums to us and scraping our order down in the order sheet before leaving to the next table. The service was pleasantly attentive as time to time, you are approached by them, asking if there are anything else that we need or want more.