Road Trip to Penang Wedding : Bentong Dim Sum, Market and Mokie Home Baked Pastry

Our funny road trip to Penang wedding was a roundabout route: We headed east and reached Bentong for lunch. We found this shop: RESTORAN SHL 

 We wanted something quick and the lady opened the cover to show us this!!!! YUM!!!! such a larger steamer full of small plates of dim sum!!!!!!

 She took out the choices that we pointed at.

 Then she opened the second layer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steam wafted and gave this picture this effect!!! We chose chicken feet, pork ribs and siew mai with roe.

 And I had one of these woo kok (yam puffs)

 This is our bill for 2 persons..cheap?

 Try this corner shop : SHL  Shuang Shi Lou (Double Happiness Inn) since 1988

 It is right in the market are and after lunch, we went for a stroll among the stalls looking for Mok.

 The crowd has gone, because it is already past noon. 

 Everywhere there is Bentong ginger for sale.

 So I bought only half a kilo's worth as they would be baking in the car while we travelled.

 We found Madam Mok  among the roadside makeshift stalls shaded under colourful umbrellas.

 Mokie Home Baked Pastry Big; RM9.50, small: RM5.70 for the packets of kaya and pineapple pastries. 

 We bought two packet to eat on our journey.

 I was excited to find Mok herself selling the pastries that she made herself, I thought she would get foreign labour to man the stall for her.

 Then we went round Bentong town; this is a large chinese school in the middle of busy township

 arched walkways of shops are still seen here.

 The Chinese Assembly Hall.

 Beautiful and ornate, festooned with red lanterns and the Malaysian flags, for Merdeka and Mid autumn festival.

 He made me pose under this minister who is a Bentong boy and the banner says "Bentong Walk" launch and this road is Jalan Chui Yin.

 Colourful lanterns for sale for the mid autumn festival, you don't get to see this in Kuala Lumpur now.

 This reminds me of my childhood days, when trays of chinese herbs are put out on the five-foot way to sun.

Last view of the market.  So there you have it, our tour of Bentong town.  Next we will look for Kow Po for our ice cream dessert!

Famous Kow Po Ice Cream Parlour in Bentong 8 September 2016

 Form 8th to 11th September, we did a road trip from Bentong to Penang via the the East West Highway!

This is our first stop: Bentong. (I have never been here before!)

 When in Bentong, you have to try the famous Ice Cream Parlour, KOW PO.

Kedai Kopi Warung Ais Krim KOW PO.

Address: No. 2, Bentong Heights, Pahang, 28700 Bentong, Malaysia

Hours: 

 10 to 6

Phone: +60 9-222 1258

 Since we already had our lunch and we had circled the town doing the main sights, we were now ready for our ice cream. It was a breeze finding the shop and parking space was ample. 

We peered at this framed picture of the menu on the wall.

From the many stuck-on revision of prices, you can guess that it has also fallen victim to GST issues.

We did not know that sitting next to the menu selection was the boss himself who saw us undecided as to what to choose so he recommended the following for us

 Number 1: Kow Po signature ice kacang at RM4.50, it must have been even cheaper than that, looking at the new stuck on price tag. 

 And No 8: double Ice cream Special at RM7.00

 He personally went to the counter to place the orders for us and supervised the preparation too. 

 ...while we took more photos of the ice cream concoctions of the wall.

 His accolades, visitors and newspaper features and cuttings. 

More photos and magazine write-ups to. My Bentong dancing friend said that Kow Po is quite well known here.

 He said: good!! We said....Very Good!!!

 Here comes our double scoop special

 and our ice kacang with ice cream

Selfie first before attacking ice cream.

This side of the shop made the picture look dark so we had the waitress go to the other side! Boss's son is in the picture behind us.

 We look so cute ya, 2 oldies behaving like teens hanging out at the milk bar.

 Boss says he uses real milk and cream and has perfected the art of homemade ice cream.

 Ice cream was incredibly smooth, rich, thick and delicious.

 I don't know, he seemed to like us and came trotting over with an extra scoop of chocolate flavoured ice cream on the house!

 He ran off bashfully after giving us the free scoop! I did not even manage to get his name.

 Back behind the counter and he was camera shy all of a sudden!

 Then he came over to talk to us again.

 See? our double ice cream has become triple ice cream.

 There is a giant GO BENTONG poster hung in the shop.

 Go Bentong Campaign sounds like an interesting event...it popularises a town like Bentong whose claim to fame must be through the notorious Bentong Kali. 
(you can google the infamous and tragic gangster Bentong Kali or Kalimuthu if you are interested)

 The  Boss of Kow Po is made famous with his image on the bunting.

So we enjoyed our smooth creamy home made ice cream with a bonus dollop of choc scoop and free ice water in aluminium tankards.

The next time you come to Bentong, do check Kow Po out: this is the address and tel no:

Kedai Kopi Kow Po
No.2 Bentong Heights,
28700 Bentong,
Pahang

Telephone number: 09 222 1258 / 016 931 0391

Business hour: From 10 am to 6 pm