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Last weekend, I had a family trip to Ipoh for three days (Friday to Sunday).

I spent most of that time in the hotel because of a fever, which turns out to be covid... so now I am isolating myself and also wanting a redo of the Ipoh trip, damnit! All the foods I couldn't eat.

In terms of accessibility, I must say that it was better than I had hoped but still leaves much to be desired. There were some disabled parking spots, but all of them weren't anywhere near cut curbs or ramps, so a wheelchair user will still have to navigate steps. Many of them did not even have extra space for a wheelchair to fit in so it feels a bit like just paying lip-service? Decorative accessible parking spots? Idk.

The hotel we were at were pretty good at accommodating our requests, so that's great! But still has the same issues where their accessible parking spots are really not (I can share the name of the hotel if interested! just PM me).

Anyway, for the places I did manage to go to:

Ming Court is the popular dim sum place now, and it's evident from the long queue outside... but it wasn't wheelchair accessible so we went to the dim sum restaurant opposite Ming Court, Foh San. It used to be the popular dim sum place, but standards have definitely gone down. I would recommend it only for the easier access for wheelchair users but I wouldn't recommend it for the dim sum, really.

Funny Mountain Beancurd is kinda a drive through service so easy access, with a car. We wanted to try Big Mom Beancurd too but they open midday, and we wanted to start our journey home before noon. Well, nothing much to say. It's Funny Mountain Beancurd. Silky smooth and soft is guaranteed. Soy drink a little too sweet though. I remember they used to serve with ginger syrup too? Maybe I remembered wrong.

Taiping Chee Cheong Fun place (yes, we drove to Taiping) was surprisingly easier to navigate than expected. The chee cheong fun place hasn't changed at all in all the years I've eaten there... This blog entry about Taiping Chee Cheong Fun has some photos of it from 2014, and it looks exactly the same today. It's a very comforting food item for me and so far, impossible to find outside of Taiping (iirc Ipoh has this as well, but you gotta ask for the red sauce and it doesn't come with the yam and you have to eat it with the yam for the perfect mouthfeel).