Friday, February 15, 2013

Famous Dim Sum at Foh San Restaurant, Ipoh

My brother blogged about dim sum in Ipoh previously - Hong Kong Dim Sum at Ming Court in Ipoh. The famous dim sum in town is the famous dim sum at Foh San (pronounced as Foo San) Restaurant. The restaurant is actually located opposite of each other and if you can find Ming Court, you can find Foh San and vice versa.

The Foh San Restaurant is nicely renovated, if compare to Ming Court and both restaurants are always crowded especially during the weekends or during the holiday seasons, and the situation is worse if either of the restaurant is closed during that time.

It's so crowded at Foh San Restaurant
Well, I went there again for the first time this year, and it was crowded, even though I went there early in the morning and we have to wait for a while until we have a table - some more is a small one, but still enough to fit the five of us.




The good thing about having dim sum with family members is we can actually order directly from  the waiter or waitress who were pushing the trolley containing the dim sum throughout the restaurant. However, many times, we cannot really wait for the dim sum trolley, so we ended up queuing to grab our favourite dim sum.











My favourite dim sum is the prawn dumpling or more commonly known as "har gow". The "har gow" at Foh San is extremely delicious and big, if compare to Ming Court, but then again the price is also slightly higher. The wrapper of the "har gow" here is not too thick, so, it makes the, so one can really taste the combination of fresh and succulent prawn with the glutinous rice wrapper rather than too much of each in some of the dim sum restaurant that I've tasted before.

Prawn dumplings that I loved most


We usually will have fish balls as well as some other "yong tou fu" and the "chee cheong fun". Then pork dumpling or "siew mai" in Chinese, and usually my brother will have char siew pao  as well. I believe the meat inside this char siew pao is tender and lean enough as my brother dislike fat meats.

Char Siew Pao that my brother loved
 


I would say that both Foh San and Ming Court are comparable in terms of the dim sum taste, at least way better than those I've tasted outside of Ipoh. The real setback of having dim sum at Foh San Restaurant is that the place is always crowded, hence you really cannot savour the taste of the tea, which is a big part of dim sum culture - well, you can actually do that, but with so many eyes staring at you, waiting for you to pay the bill, it is not easy to ignore those eyes while enjoying the tea. Nevertheless, when one stop by Ipoh, trying out the dim sum at Foh San Restaurant is definitely a must do activity.

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