Chang Jiang White Coffee 長江白咖啡

The early bird catches the worm! With Ipoh known for its White Coffee, Chang Jiang White Coffee is one of the must visit spots. Occupying a bungalow space with a large opened carpark, it is best to be there earlier to avoid any disappointment. 

Chang Jiang White Coffee at Jalan Windsor

Not long after as we entered Chang Jiang White Coffee, the crowd starts coming in and carpark was almost full. Chang Jiang is not only popular among the locals but also among visitors.

Chang Jiang White Coffee

The facade of Chang Jiang looks humble with some traditional coffee murals painted.

Wall Art

The interior was decent with 2 big rectangular mirrors by the side and filled of round tables. The dining place is linked up with their own merchandise where you can grab their popular White Coffee, Tea and even Lemon Tea back home as souvenirs. The display in the shop was nostalgic with some old-school items around. 

Dining Floor

The menu was presented in an A5 size printed booklet, tied up by strings and supported by a wooden board with a cover page featuring 2 packets of Kopi O.

Menu at Chang Jiang White Coffee

While flipping to the end of the menu, one will get to see that there are 3 locations.

Menu indicating the Stall

The entire interior seating was air-conditioned and with its furnishing as well as renovation,  it gives us a feel of sitting a time machine back into the past.

Dining Area

Nearing to the main entrance of Chang Jiang White Coffee, we had already felt the old school vibe with such furnishing around like the olden type of table, gunny sack and plush cushion chair.

Environment

The strong aroma of the black coffee was good. 

Kopi O - RM 3.90

One of the attention-catching items that I read about online will be their beverages that were frothy. While I'm not here for their coffee, I was quite surprise to have my Teh C presented in this way. It was served in a traditional cup and saucer. Tea was good with evaporated milk and sugar.

Kaw Kaw Teh 'C' 唛仔茶 - RM 4.60

The toast was served in an aluminium plate with charred edges.

Chang Jiang Toast - Kaya + Butter 長江烤面包 加央 + 牛油- RM 6

The bread was vertically cut into halves and as I lifted the crispy side up, I notice that the delicious spread of kaya on the bread was decked up by 4 cut blocks of butter.

Crispy Toasts

The texture of the toasts were crispy and as though biting of biscuits.

Take a look at the cross section

Its not often that I order steam bread and these breads were definitely pillowy soft and yummy. It was served in a dim sum basket.

Chang Jiang Steam Bread - Kaya 長江蒸面包 - 加央 - RM 6

The sweetness of the Kaya Spread was acceptable and the feel of having a warm steam bread in hand is great.

Steam Bread with Kaya

What comes best after traditional toasts? Well, the half boiled eggs! The eggs were definitely smaller than what I had back home and we were to crack these eggs into the traditional cup. Although the half boiled eggs may not be of perfect temperature and slightly overcooked, Im absolutely fine with it. After all, there is no way to compare the standard with Yakun as I think everywhere has its own unique style.

Soft Boiled Eggs

Beside ordering toasts and bread, they do offer noodles dishes. We had Chang Jiang Traditional wanton noodle dry. The meat are made up of chicken. 

Dry Sauce Wanton Noodle 干捞云吞面 - RM 9.20

No doubt that the noodles were simple execution. I actually find the taste pretty addictive not because I was hungry in the morning. The bowl was comprised of noodles and some lettuce but the use of black sauce and the fragrant scallion oil had my stomach. 

Simple Bowl of Noodle

Wanton soup was an additional order. Amazingly, the taste of wanton had very much reminded me of some old school stall that I had back in Singapore.

Wanton Soup - RM 6.90

Each and every Wanton was well wrapped with minced meat seated tightly in the Wanton Skin. 

Wanton

Pardon me for taking the toilet but the layout and the water tank had kind of give rise to the memories I had back home before the HDB starts having HIP (Home Improvement Program). On a side note, the toilet was spacious and well, its not very dirty.

Toilet in Chang Jiang

After having our stomach fix, its time to have a visit at their shop. Let's go.

Walkway into the Merchandise

The displays in the shop was catchy to my eyes with some old irons, sewing machine and traditional coffee socks. There are also a number of media articles plastered on the wall paper about Chang Jiang White Coffee.

Decorations

This corner was decorated by some traditional coffee sock, metal cups, pallet as well as eggs holder.

At one corner

It gives a kind of garden feel in the backyard with some sentimental items that bring back memories of the past.

Kettle and Stove

For those non coffee drinkers, its good news that they are also selling chocolate sachets.

Chocolate Sachets

Besides coffee, they do have boxes of Lemon Tea too.

Metal Cups

If you cannot get enough of their Kaw Kaw Kopi, here's your chance to bring them home.

Kaw Kaw Kopi

Besides Kaw Kaw Kopi, their Wangher Coffee is pretty popular too.

Bicycle & Kopi

While at this corner, we got to see some other old school items too.

Display

Over at the other corner of the shop, we get to see the olden days of Iron.

Old School Iron

It's not just one kind but a few different on the open shelves as display.

Old School Iron

Even at the cashier counter, a toy bread was placed in the pot for decoration.

Fake Bread at Payment Counter

Before leaving the place, I went around the facade and it was another surprise to me that they have another place just right in front of the gate.

Another Place Found

Likewise, the place was fully packed. 

Kin Long

The new branch looks more modernise at their walkway. Nonetheless, the interior furnishings still remains the vibe of 80s-90s era.

Walkway of Chang Jiang White Coffee (Another Area)

With the high rating and recommendations in social media, this place is reputable and if you are on a plan visit to Ipoh, it will be a better to visit them earlier and avoid the peak hours.

Rating: 4 / 5

Chang Jiang White Coffee 長江白咖啡
Location: 7, Jalan Windsor, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
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Gerai Minuman 茶水檔

We had stall no.41 as the last pit stop in Tong Sui Kai. While we thought they had forgotten our order, they were diligently preparing the food on the spot as they had just opened for the day.

Gerai Minuman Stall No. 41

While I was wondering why my bowl of dessert took such a long time to be served, I finally understood the reason after looking at its presentation. The bowl of dessert was impressively topped with numerous fresh fruits like red dragon fruit, longan, watermelon, mango and other ingredients like peanuts, agar-agar and ice cream.

Ais Buah-Buahan+Ais Krim 杂果冰 - RM 8.50 

The fruits were freshly cut and refreshingly topped with a scoop of ice cream.

Colourful Bowl

The cooling and colourful bowl of dessert were alluring. The variety of fruits and colours simply end our day satisfied. 

Top View

We consumed the ingredients and find that the price paid was actually reasonable with all the fresh fruits used. 

Side View

The experience was delighting and if there are more stomach spaces, I do not mind having more of such bowls.

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Gerai Minuman 茶水檔
Location: Stall No.41, Taman Jubilee, 30300 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

Mee Kari Pangkor

While the rules of food Street don't allow patrons to buy food from one stall and seat far away, we quickly settle for another seat just right smack in front of the stall.

Tong Sui Kai

While having our bowl of beef noodles from Cheong Kee, the intermittent fragrant of Char Kway Teow Smell flew towards us. We could not resist and ended up ordering a plate to try after spotting that the alluring smell comes from stall No.42.

No. 42 Mee Kari Pangkor

The stall was manned by 3 pax, a woman and 2 younger guys. The woman will take and serve the order to customers while the guys will be the ones preparing the food.

What's cooking

The plate of CKT was served in a transparent glass plate. Upon having the plate served right in front of us, the strong whiff of "wok hei" fragrant was addictive.

CKT - RM 7.50

The dark brown colour had coated each  CKT uniformly and it was not too dry. Ingredients include generous use of egg, fat bean sprouts, chives and prawns. The flavours had utterly left me speechless for it beat any of our CKT back home hands down.

Ingredients

Service was friendly and before we left, the stall lady even greet and thank us for coming. Compared back to our home, we hardly had such "treatment" from hawkers that warm our hearts. 

Food

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Mee Kari Pangkor 邦咯咖喱粉

Location: Stall No.42, Taman Jubilee, 30300 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

Cheong Kee Soup Lembu Beef Noodle 章记牛腩粉

While the night food Street at Ipoh Tong Sui Kai were not full flag opened at our visited timing. We just passed by here to have a feel of the "day vibe" of this place. I was told that there is a rule to abide if we were to dine in at this food street and that is, we have to sit at the designated place around the food stall that we placed our food. 

Stall No. 47

Stall no. 47 was seen as one of the earliest stall to be opened among other stalls at about 5pm and to my surprise, there were already alot of tables with bowls of Cheong Kee Beef Noodles.

Stall of Cheong Kee Soup Lembu Beef Noodle

The team of slim looking 2 eldery couples, perhaps in their mid 70s, were very busy handling the non stop incoming orders of the walk-in customers. No doubt they are in a team of 4, each of them seem having their delegated duties and was working on it diligently ever since the stall opening.

Auntie preparing the noodle soup

While sitting right next to the stall, I can smell the intermittent gentle burning of charcoal smoke coming towards my way. I looked everywhere for BBQ stalls but only to realise that Cheong Kee Soup Lembu Beef Noodle uses such traditional charcoal method in boiling their soup.

Slicing up the beef

We added 2 beef balls to the small bowl of Lembu noodles. We were not serious about having full meal for dinner but more on trying on the local delicacies thus we had the smaller portion.

The soup was light and sweet tasting with a small portion of beef mixture. 

Bowl of Beef Noodles - RM 6 (Small) 

The humble bowl of beef noodles were packed full of nostalgic taste. Initially, I find that it tasted rather ordinary but as I kept sipping down spoons after spoons of the broth, I can comprehend the reason of the crowd.

Simplicity is the best with additional Beef Balls at RM 0.80 each

The bowl of Beef Noodles tasted warm to the stomach and I can definitely understand the reason behind the continuous incoming queue of this stall. It's may not be rated the best but simply pack full of homely flavours. 

Hor Fun

If you happen to be in Tong Sui Kai, the stall is recommended for its simple yet nostalgic taste.

Rating: 3.25 / 5 

Cheong Kee Beef Noodle 
Location: Stall No.47, Taman Jubilee, 30300 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia