Ipoh

From Georgetown (Penang), we took a bus, which, in a smooth 3 hour ride, brought us to Ipoh (not to be confused with the international house of pancakes). In Ipoh, we again stayed in a little apartment, which was even a bit nicer than the one in Georgetown and luckily also much more quiet. By renting this apartment, we could also use the gym in the apartment building for free. The gym was not as nice as the one in Georgetown but we still used it every day to get our bodies their long needed exercise.
While staying in Ipoh, we did walk around through its center / old town a bit to get a feel for the place by strolling through the Heritage Trail and Concubine Lane and seeing some murals and historic buildings like the train station and the town hall. Since we did not feel like spending much time to visit yet another Buddhist temple or a mosque outside of the city, we spent a good portion of our time at home doing things like working on this blog, doing some video calls with folks at home, and Matthias even got the machine out to cut his hair.

Until now, we have not really grown fond of Malaysian food. Maybe we were just spoiled by the amazing Thai food and the many great restaurants we could find there but we feel like it is much more difficult for us to find a restaurant and food we really like in Malaysia. So we were more than happy to have stumbled upon a restaurant, which, among other types of food, serves insanely delicious Sri Lankan food. It was so delicious that we had to go back the next day to fill our bellies with Kottu Roti and String Hoppers again.

When taking a Grab taxi on our last night in town, we got into a conversation with the driver. Our conversation quickly came to the topic of the economy being down due to Trump introducing tariffs only one week prior. He said that Malaysians do regret the low economy and tariffs on Malaysia but it's not that they regret Trump but rather that “the guy was not shooting well”.

All the fun conversations aside, after three nights it was already time to take another bus to our next destination.

Good cafés, restaurants:
- Azlina Kitchen Ipoh (Amazing Sri Lankan food like Kottu Roti and String Hoppers)
- Flufff (very fluffy pancakes)
- JLN Theatre CoffeeRead more