Ed and Cher: 1 Day trip to Ipoh Part III- Tanjung Tualang

After the castle at Batu Gajah, we headed to Tanjung Tualang town for lunch to have some River Prawns. Apparently this town is famous for it's river prawns.

Anyways on our journey there, we stopped by a tin mining place here at Tanjung Tualang, where for the first time I saw a dredging 'ship'. It was huge, almost looked like some metal creatures from space. The place now is left for tourist to go in and take a look. However since the admission fee was pretty expensive, RM 10, we all decided not to go in. Only managed to get a snap shot of the place from outside the gate.

Tin Dredge Heritage

So we continued our journey and reached our lunch destination. It was a small looking town dominated by Chinese. The place we ate was called Restaurant Kong Kee. The place looked very old and it had black and white photos on the walls which looked like the 60's era. Had pictures taken of the live river prawns and a Toman fish which was in front of the Restaurant. We ordered, two types of river prawns ;- Butter River Prawns and Steamed River Prawns. Butter River Prawns was good. It had butter, fried egg bits, dried prawns and curry leaves in it. The Steamed River Prawns was steamed with a special sauce which had a strong Chinese wine taste. Prawns looked huge, but after you remove the big head, the flesh was not much. I didn't quite enjoy this dish as it had a very strong river-water-prawny taste. Something I don't like when I have seafood.

The restaurant

One of the old black and white photos on the wall

Besides prawns we also ordered a huge fish belonging to the cat fish family. The fish was very fresh because we witnessed its final breath before it was brought to the kitchen to be slaughtered. What a pitty! The fish was steamed instead of a curry style. Once served, one must eat the fish while it's still hot. Reason is that when it's cold the fish doesn't taste good and the flesh kinda gets rubbery. Sauce wise it was good, but the fish flesh had a very strong fishy taste. The last two dishes was belachan kangkung- normal, and tofu- nice and soft texture.

Butter River Prawns

On my plate

Steamed River Prawns

The claws

Steamed Fish

Tofu

My plate

You wouldn't guess how much the bill came up to...... Freaking RM 237. We both were shocked, it was so expensive. Back in Penang RM 237 you would be able to have prawns, crabs, fish, lala and more for that price. Were they cutting our throats since we looked like outsiders? Well never again shall we step foot there agian. But I must say it was a nice experience passing by this town.