Father's Day Lunch At CawanMu Restaurant @ The 1969 Business Suites Boutique Hotel, Ipoh

For the first time in many years, we celebrated Father's Day with papa and the hubs in Ipoh.  The hubs booked a table for the celebration at CawanMu Restaurant @ The 1969 Business Suites Boutique Hotel, a hotel owned by the hubs' childhood friends.




The two fathers in my life ~ my dear papa and loving daddy to my daughters.



Chocolate cake specially baked by Chef Chu, the hubs' long-time friend.




Papa and mum, loving as ever. Papa lost his mobile phone during his recent trip to Eastern Europe (he had lost it in Poland).  Back in Ipoh, he inadvertently locked both sets of the car keys in his car and had a flat tyre while driving to the wet market to get coconut water for us.  Hopefully our presence and celebration with him this Father's Day lifted him out from his doldrums 💗



One look and you'll know that these fancy schmancy picks are from the post-millenial girls:


Mushroom soup and Nasi Briyani:


Prawn noodles and grilled salmon:


Seafood pasta and lamb shank:










Tiramisu (which comes really close to the ones from Alexis, sans the alcohol and strawberry sauce) and hot latte with chocolate chip cookies:


Food is superb with 4 to 5-star presentation. Love the ambience and the tip top cleanliness. Price will certainly not hurt your wallet too. This is one restaurant that I will look forward to going back to in my future trips back to Ipoh. Great place for long catch ups with old friends.

After our delightful Father's Day lunch, we walked next door to the 1969 Business Suites Boutique Hotel to view the hotel's wall. What's so special about this wall is the fact that  it has just made it into the Malaysia Book of Records for creating a permanent backdrop in its lobby out of 53,592 1 sen coins. That's about RM535 worth of coins.  The coins were glued to the wall one by one to uniquely display  the hotel's name "1969 Business Suites" which won the hotel the title "Biggest backdrop display made of one cent coins" as reported by The Star.







The wall which measures about 5.73m by 2.62m is the brainchild of the hotel’s founders. Two weeks were taken for project coordinator.

For those visiting Ipoh, this hotel is worth visiting and the wall definitely Insta-worthy.









CawanMu Restaurant
No.1, Jalan Lapangan Siber 3
Bandar Cyber
Ipoh, Perak
Tel: 05-313 1969

Our Sunday

On Sunday, the gals met up with their former Sunday School teachers - husband and wife team (they now reside in Singapore) and now they have a cute 1 year old boy, Joshua.


After church, we had buffet lunch at Le Meridien Hotel. Hubs wanted to utilize the free voucher for 2 adults' meal before it expired. And he ended up paying RM100++ for the 2 kids' meals! I regret having lunch at Le Meridien Hotel as I ended up having food poisoning! Hubs should have just listened to me and packed some yong tau foo for lunch, which was our original plan.


Could this plate of sashimi be the culprit for my food poisoning?



Or this plate of teppanyaki?


Or this plate of raw oysters and mussles?



Or salad? Yes, raw salad is a high risk for salmonella food poisoning!

Jie Jie #2 brought Baby to get free balloons from the waitress.



The wide selection of nuts and tid bits.


Foor presentation is good - Choice of salad dressing encassed in shampoo-like bottles.


The ice-cream teppanyaki is a great hit with everyone. I don't think the culprit is ice-cream coz everyone else ice-cream and they are all A-ok.



My favorite almond coffee biscotti.

Another highly possible culprit is the ice cendol which I ate.

That will be our second and last time lunching there. The food is only mediocre, expensive (RM90++ per pax) and worst of all, I ended up with food poisoning and purged more than 10x yesterday.

Breakfast at Hard Rock Hotel Penang

Here are my girls enjoying their buffet breakfast at Hard Rock Hotel Penang:

Digging on nothing but sodium-laden sausages and deli meat, sugar-laden orange juice, sugar-frosted corn flakes and a little omelette. Not a nutritionally sound breakfast and they enjoyed it. Unhealthy food always taste so good, don't they?



The scene at the coffee house. It was a sea of people and pretty crowded.


Alycia discovered a novel way of eating her corn flakes - by immersing them in orange juice!



I started with fruits, followed by some low-fat yoghurt with muesli. Then digged on some omelette, 2 short sausages, some cuppies and


some pecan nuts. I skipped the dried apricots - too sweet for my liking. I had to watch what I ate as I had been pigging out too much in Penang. If I ate as I please, I would even need to rely on the best fat burner to help me shed some fat!

Dinner At Iketeru @ Hilton Sentral Hotel

We had a pretty late check-in at Hilton Sentral Hotel KL on Friday night, at around 9ish pm. After checking in, we went to Iketeru Japanese Restaurant, a fine dine Japanese restaurant with beautiful interior and landscape and great food. After a big hoo ha over no short pants allowed into the restaurant on a week day, we finally got in. You see, when the hubs made the reservation earlier, he wasn't informed by the reservations staff of the hotel about the no short pants dress code on week days. It's clearly the fault of the hotel for not informing us.

Anyway after the big hoo ha, we finally got inside and ordered our food. Since there were only 2 adults dining, we got a 50% rebate off the total bill as the hubs is a member of the Hilton Privilege Club. It's a rare occasion that we got to eat together, just the both of us. So the hubs ordered a delectable, sumptuous set consisting of:

Appetizer consisting of baby lobster (in yellow cup), scallops, Edamame beans and can't tell what that brown meat is in that little blue plate...


A sumptuous stir-fried lobster...



Sushi...


Sashimi....


Kobe beef, one of the world's most expensive beef...



Clear soup served in a Japanese teapot and cup set....



And black sesame ice-cream with fruit cocktail as dessert.

It was a very sumptuous dinner but I didn't eat much since I already had my dinner at home earlier. Total bill was close to RM400 before the 50% rebate.

Dinner At Prince Hotel

We had dinner at the Chinese Restaurant of Prince Hotel on Sunday with hubby's relatives. There is currently a 50% discount off ala carte menus promotion going on.

We ordered a whole Peking duck and had the duck eaten in 2 varieties. First, we ate the crispy duck skin with spring onions and sweet sauce wrapped with an egg sheet. The duck meat was then used to cook stir-fried noodles.

Yam basket, which was very tasty.

Sweet and spicy diced chicken breast on hot plate.

Grilled cod fish

and 2 varieties of stir-fried veggie.

The desserts were really good. We had mango pudding with mango sauce, sago and shaved ice,

Kwai leng koa (Herbal jelly) with fresh sea coconut and sago.

And this is one of the tastiest desserts I had ever eaten - white almond milk double boiled in a young coconut, served with 'lui sar tong yuen' (black sesame seed paste filled glutinous rice balls)

This bowl of carbo tasty heavenly. Anyone would just forget about their diet plan and bulging belly when they taste this! I want more now!!

Dim Sum At Sheraton Imperial

We had eat-all-you-can dim sum at Sheraton Imperial several weeks ago. I must say that their dim sum have improved in taste and variety as compared to a few years ago.

What are your favorite items when it comes to dim sum? Mine is always the desserts!

Stay updated for more pix of what we had there......



The mango pudding and 'lai sar tong yuen' (rice flour balls filled with black sesame paste) were very tasty.

A Chocolate Affair

Read more about this chocolately affair here.