Papparich


It was Saturday 3 weeks ago, I was in Bangsar around 12 midnight. There is this shop in the corner of the road in Bangsar called Papprich that caught my attention. Well, the shop looks like one of those new kopitiam that has sprung up in Malaysia. But, this one is different in that it has a certain English elegance in its decor. Being curious, me and my friend went in to take a look.


"Malaysian Delights" written on the front door was simple, but elegant. The steam coming off from its food counter makes me feel warm about the place. Apparently, they serve dim sum. Not many kopitiams serve dim sum. Most of them serve toasted bread and noodle.






This being Bangsar, most of the client are Malaysian yuppies of various races.



One look at the menu, I was impressed with the varieties of food offered. You have all sort of noodles like char keoy teow, laksa, hor fun, curry mee, etc.


They have hor fun dry style mixed with various type of gravy too.



Nasi lemak and chicken rice.


Otak-otak and fried foo chuk too.


There is also a wide variety of toast and bugger.



Vegetarian dim sum, lor mai kai, egg tart, etc.


For dessrt, they have bean curd, soya bean, ice cream, pudding, etc.


There is a wide variety of drinks, hot and cold.




I ordered a plate of hor fun dry style mixed with chicken and prawn in soy sauce.


It was a big plate.


My friend ordered chicken hor fun.


Actually, we wanted to eat something light. But the variety of food on the menu made us ordered more than what we should eat at 12 mid night.


The vegetarian dim sum is a bit disappointing.


The fried foo chuk is chewy and tasty.


A bowl of bean curd. You have a choice of plain sugar syrup and gula melaka.


Same for soya milk too. Soya milk with gula melaka was great.


Barley with lemon. Home made.


The bill came up to around RM50. Not that expensive considering the amount of food we ordered.


Well, so far Papparich only has branches in Klang Valley. If you are interested to open one, you can contact the following number.

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Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant


It was 3pm in the afternoon and all my family members had to be in Bridal World to take family photo with my sister, who was the bride of the day. Just next to Bridal World is the new Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant.

Ask anyone from Ipoh where to have somea good dim sum breakfast, most of them will tell you to go to Foh San. Not that it is the only dim sum restaurant in Ipoh, but Foh San is definitely one of the popular one. The restaurant open early at 6 am every morning and you will see a long queue outside the restaurant waiting to be seated. At least, that was the scenario in their old shop.

The last time I came back to Ipoh for Qing Ming festival around mid April 2009 , I already discovered the grand new Foh San almost completed. The new building of Foh San is really big and grand. The architecture looks like a clan association. It spans at least 5 shop lots and 4 storey high. The building can house at least 1000 people. With this new building, I hope the long queue waiting outside the restaurant will become history. At that time, the building was still under renovation and not opened for business then. This time round, the new Foh San restaurant is already in business. But too bad, 3pm is not the right time of the day to take dim sum and yam cha and the restaurant is closed for the day.

In the end, we went to Hua Nam just across the road for some white coffee while waiting for our turn to picture. Guess I have to wait till Chinese New Year to enjoy my dim sum in Foh San. In the mean time, I could only admire Foh San's new grand building.








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