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Dongdamen Night Market
If you are staying in the West Central area of Tainan, where all the good signature food of Tainan is located, then Dongdamen Night Market is considered quite far, unless you have a motorcycle.
For us, we took a bus to this place, and bus frequency and reliability is truly questionable I Tainan.
Dongdamen Night Market is a huge night market. The food sold in this night market, somewhat, is a bit different from other more popular night markets around Taiwan.
For example, they have the soy sauce braised duck (on site braised) which is quite good and they have the steamed glutinous rice with duck meat which is very good.
For us, we took a bus to this place, and bus frequency and reliability is truly questionable I Tainan.
Dongdamen Night Market is a huge night market. The food sold in this night market, somewhat, is a bit different from other more popular night markets around Taiwan.
For example, they have the soy sauce braised duck (on site braised) which is quite good and they have the steamed glutinous rice with duck meat which is very good.
Diamond Kopitiam
We came here following Google Reviews by local guides on our recent Ipoh Food Hunt in February 2022.
As Menglembu is one of our target areas, Kafe Diamond Kopitiam came up, and here we are! However, as we were already quite full from our last food hunt stop, we just ordered fishball from the popular noodle and "liu" stall, and the "die die must eat" recommendation rojak stall.
Fishball - just so so, not bad, but do not need to travel all the way to Ipoh or Menglembu to savour it. To be fair, we just ordered the fishball. Probably those reviews stating how good this stall is based on the whole package, i.e. noodles and "liu".
Rojak - this is the chinese fruit rojak version. If you are looking for the indian version, then wrong place. So is this rojak good? Yes, it is good. Fruits are fresh, and the crackers are crunchy hard (not easily crushed, as one needs to bite it a bit hard - it would have been better if it is less hard). What we like about this rojak, and probably what made it popular is that the stall owner is generous.with sprinkling of super tiny bits of dried shrimp. That adds to the umami of the whole rojak dish.
Verdict:
Blessed are the resident of Menglembu to have this kopitiam where they can frequent daily. As a visitor or tourist in Ipoh, if you so happened to be in Menglembu, yes, do visit and try out this kopitiam, especially the rojak.
We will not make a special trip to have the noodles or rojak unless we happened to be in Menglembu as this kopitiam did not make it to our "die die must eat" list.
As Menglembu is one of our target areas, Kafe Diamond Kopitiam came up, and here we are! However, as we were already quite full from our last food hunt stop, we just ordered fishball from the popular noodle and "liu" stall, and the "die die must eat" recommendation rojak stall.
Fishball - just so so, not bad, but do not need to travel all the way to Ipoh or Menglembu to savour it. To be fair, we just ordered the fishball. Probably those reviews stating how good this stall is based on the whole package, i.e. noodles and "liu".
Rojak - this is the chinese fruit rojak version. If you are looking for the indian version, then wrong place. So is this rojak good? Yes, it is good. Fruits are fresh, and the crackers are crunchy hard (not easily crushed, as one needs to bite it a bit hard - it would have been better if it is less hard). What we like about this rojak, and probably what made it popular is that the stall owner is generous.with sprinkling of super tiny bits of dried shrimp. That adds to the umami of the whole rojak dish.
Verdict:
Blessed are the resident of Menglembu to have this kopitiam where they can frequent daily. As a visitor or tourist in Ipoh, if you so happened to be in Menglembu, yes, do visit and try out this kopitiam, especially the rojak.
We will not make a special trip to have the noodles or rojak unless we happened to be in Menglembu as this kopitiam did not make it to our "die die must eat" list.