Introducing The Restaurant 1919

Restaurant 1919 is famous for its nyonya food especially its 'assam curry fish head'. It is located at Medan Bandar Baru (Ipoh Garden East) opposite Tesco. I love to go there with my parents as my father loves spicy food. I always find it "full house", and I have to reserve a table before we go for dinner there every time. It is so popular nowadays as it was being advertised on TV3 about its yummy dish and interviews with the directors recently.



I went there during the CNY, that's why photos were taken with New Year decorations. This restaurant has a collection of Chinese antique and a rack full of wines. If you feel like serving your food with a taste red wine, you can always ask for a bottle on any year that you prefer, of course you have to pay la! To grab this opportunity, I'm going to recommend some of my favourite dish to you all.....


Top ~ Fried 'Mantis Prawn' with fresh milk

Right ~ Indonesian style curry fish
Bottom ~ Home-made toufu with minced meat and mushrooms


Left ~ 'Kelabu' (mango and cucumber slices, cashew nuts and dried 'sotong') in yam bowl
Right ~ Half Teriyaki chicken; half steam chicken

There are some other delicious dish like salt-egg chicken and fried brinjals. We came out with RM276 for the dinner. It was quite expensive, maybe it was because CNY season. So, if you all happen to visit Ipoh on food excursion, do let me know. Maybe I can lead you the way. Why not?!

First Trial On Italian Food

I spotted this newly opened cafe every time I drive along the main road in front of Greentown Square. It was "Spaghetti Sweet Tea Cafe". I pulled my hubby into the cafe on Valentine's day, but unfortunately they were already closed at that time as it was already 10pm. We were 'invited' to leave and we felt so shameful at that moment.

I decided to go there again last Thursday, since it really attracts me though it doesn't have a special outlook. And this time I was with my hubby and children as well. Hubby and I were like in war because our kids ran about playing and touching whatever they could see even we yelled and scolded them. We could hardly taste our food but I managed to snap photos on dishes that we ordered to show my bloggers here.


Left ~ Soup with fish balls
Right ~ Grilled Chicken


Left ~ Chicken Parmesan ( with tomato sauce and cheese on top )
Right ~ Spaghetti with tomato sauce and sausages

Most of the Italian food is cooked with tomato sauce, very little to find spicy flavour, not even chilli sauce! The drinks we ordered were special. They were something like cocktail.

Left ~ SSTC ( Popular drink in cafe; mixing of lemon and mint flavour )
Right ~ Sunshine Strawberry

Even though it was a 'busy' meal, but we enjoyed our dinner well. We had spent RM109 on these food. What do you think? Expensive?

Especially For Chinese New Year....

My uncle and aunt were throwing us a treat for dinner at Public (Pusing) Restaurant in Ipoh town on the 1st night of CNY. This "Yee Sang" is a special dish on CNY. We can only have this in all the restaurant during CNY. It looks something like Chinese "rojak" with slices of carrots, cucumbers, green and purple vege, pieces of pomelos, sesame, crackers and slices of raw fish or jelly fish mixed together with sweet gravy.


The Chinese believes that the higher we grib and mix the dish with chopsticks, the better we are in the year. It brings wealth and prosperity to family and is good for those who run business too. That's why in Cantonese we call it "Lou Sang" ~ "Lou Dou Feng San Shui Hei".