Those residents in Canning Garden Ipoh would be
familiar with this popiah stall by the road side at the lorong opposite a busy junction heading to a traffic light ( a few metres opposite Ipoh garden Mother of Perpetual church.
The old man is well knwn for his "cockiness"/ "stuck up"/ "arrogance"!!.
Dont state your orders and preference untill you have been asked by him.
Just Stand there and wait your turn to be asked or else be prepared to be sarcastically sound by him.
On 1 wooden platform he could prepare 14 popiah at one go!
Used to cost rm3 for a pair but today it's rm4 for 2. If u buy 1 it's
rm2.50 ech .
Cocky or not, people are still willing to queue in rain or shine to taste his wholesome popiah so generous in ingredients like boiled turnip, fried egg, cucumber, taufu, n his signature crab meat n deep fried crunchy homemade crushed prawn cracker , all rolled up in popiah skin n spreaded with chilly n red sweet sauce (Tim cheong).
Then comes the next question " Oi chit mou??" ( wanna cut or not?)
Some love to eat it like handroll without cutting. Most would like it cut by him (less messy)!
How many of you local Perakians have not tried it?
Even those who come back from abroad to their Ipoh hometown would still frequent
this stall for the yummy unforgetable taste envied by those locals who are abroad
and can't get to taste it like before!
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