You must try Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah for the best teatime treats in Ipoh.
This is the local Ipohan’s favorite soya bean curd dessert place.
Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah comes highly recommended by bean curd-loving locals.
The stall started as a small stall in Bercham and has now expanded to a bigger store.
There’s seating in bar-like stools in the shop, and customers get to step right in.
Customers are happy with the self-service and sitting on the plastic stools on the veranda way.
They keep Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah warm in these giant stainless steel tubs.
Some prefer to take away.
Eat Tau Fu Fah in your car!
Otherwise, you can opt to have it served in your car, and you get to enjoy your dessert in air-conditioning comfort.
For takeaway, you just could call or honk for service.
I’m thinking about Ipoh’s soya bean dessert outlets’ successes and wonder if they need to operate out of hole-in-the-wall shops.
Unlike Ipoh’s other famous shop, which serves minuscule servings in tiny bowls, 旺记豆腐花 Woong Kee serves a decent-sized bowl of soya bean curd.
The notoriously long queues of the other tiny shop are absurd!
During weekends and public holidays, you will need both luck and patience to find a parking spot and wait in line for a bowl of dessert and a drink!
The bar stool seats for dining in. Photo: Doris Lim
Crowds of hungry locals piling into the shop with visitors in tow. Photo: Doris Lim
If you drive around, you can’t miss the bright orange wall next to the 旺记豆腐花 Woong Kee dessert shop. Photo: Doris Lim
Why do Visitors Queue for Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah?
Simple.
The texture of Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah is extraordinarily light and wonderfully soft.
It’s so smooth that it slides down your throat easily and feels so velvety.
They sweeten this dessert with your choice of strong ginger syrup, necessary or palm sugar.
We find the humble soya bean curd in every town in Malaysia.
In Ipoh, the homemade soya bean curd is a Must Eat item for visitors.
The secret to Ipoh’s Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah
This is an open secret in the land of the King of Bean Sprouts in Malaysia.
Shh!
It’s the hard water from the limestone hills surrounding the heartland of Ipoh’s Kinta Valley.
The hard water makes the bean sprouts that grow here incredibly FAT, long, crunchy, and tasty.
As for the exceptional qualities of spring water, it makes Ipoh soya bean curd smooth and soft!
What to Order
They serve Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah with mushy red beans, grass jelly, and shaved peanuts.
You’re the boss of your dessert; you can choose one or two toppings or even take all three.
You could order chrysanthemum syrup instead of ginger syrups.
If you like something special, there is pumpkin tang yuan (pumpkin glutinous rice balls).
Some may ask if it’s halal or non-halal, as it’s just a dessert. I’m not an expert on this.
Lily and I stick to the old tested recipes and take away desserts to eat at home.
The mother and son team works together to serve customers promptly and efficiently. Photo: Doris Lim
Check out Johor Kaki blog on what he ate with my recommendations.
旺记豆腐花 Woong Kee Tau Fu Fah |32-38A (Bawah), Jalan Ali Pitchay, (Off Jalan Yang Kalsom) Ipoh | Telephone: 016-533 3210 | Business Hours: Daily 1 pm – 6 pm
GPS: 4°35’28.7″N 101°05’05.0″E 4.591302, 101.084731
Update 25 November 2021 Penang Branch
Melt in your mouth is silky smooth. Woong Kee Tau Fu Fa now has an outlet in Penang. Watch out for the review next.
Address: 471, Jalan Penang, 10000 Georgetown, Pulau Pinang.
Contact Number: 013-5218843
Google: https://g.co/kgs/Rk7CXEB
