1919 Restaurant & Gallery at Ipoh Garden

There are plenty of unique restaurants in Ipoh, 1919 Restaurant & Gallery is definitely one of them. It offers a different range of Chinese dishes here, as well as other oriental food and Peranakan cuisine, not to mention this restaurant is pork-free too. 1919 also serves catering, private functions, parties, events and wedding dinners as well. Without further a do, let's check it out what it has to offer!

1). Located in a corner shop lot at a very strategic location, within walking distance and situated just in-between Kinta Shopping Centre and Tesco. Carpark is vastly available outside of the restaurant and inside nearby Tesco.

2). Its interior is filled with classical design and antics too, as showed by the wooden chairs, marble tables and wooden cabinets, it feels like time has rolled back to the past whenever you're dinning in.

3). The dishes come promptly after minutes of ordering, maybe it's still before lunch hours. The first dish we ordered is a small portion of King Sauce Chicken (RM8.00). The chicken cutlets are deep-fried in crispy golden colours and topped with a special sweet sauce, making the dish very appealing and very complimenting to any bowl of rice. Although its King sauce is all over the meat, it didn't cause the meat to lose the crunchiness of the outside, and the meat is tender on the inside. Lovely, this dish would make my day!

4). The next to come is the Butter Soft Shell Crabs (RM32.00). Minimum order for this dish is at least two whole piece of crabs. However, its portion is not very large, just enough for the two of us. As we all know, soft shell crab is a kind of Green Crab, which is harvested for food during their shells changing period and the hard shells hasn't formed yet. Thus, the whole piece of crab can be eaten even with their shells on. Back to the dish, where the crabs are deep fried again into crispy golden colours together with the buttery egg flakes which give the dish the sizzling looks. Needless to say, it's another pretty delicious piece of food, we are crying for more!

5). The third dish we ordered is a small portion of Stir-fried Bittergout with Salted Egg (RM8.00). Yet again, another fried food, this time is bittergout, a veggie at least. To be honest with you, anything would be tasty if you cooked together with salted egg. The aroma and the taste it gives to the dish just makes you wanting for more. This dish is recommended, in fact, anything dish with salted egg will do!

6). The last dish to come is a small portion of Crab King Tofu (RM8.00). It is their recommended dish on the menu under the Tofu section, however it has nothing to wow about though. Seafood tofu is cooked together with mushrooms, carrots and broccoli in its broth. What about crab meat, you say? I don't tasted any of it, maybe just an ample of it..

7). In conclusion, if you're a fried food lover like me, then this is the restaurant for you. Not to say only fried food are offered in 1919, it also served other oriental dish and Peranakan food as well. Make sure you book your table before you come, especially dinner hours on weekends. 

1919 Restaurant & Gallery

Address : No.1, Jalan Medan Ipoh 6,

               Bandar Baru Medan, 31400 Ipoh, Perak.

Business hours : 12.00pm - 3.00pm & 6.00pm - 10.30pm daily

Tel. : 05-5477196 (Steven Wong)        Fax : 05-5481046

E-mail : 1919restaurant@gmail.com

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