Kopisan Lai Fun In Gopeng

We woke up early on a Tuesday morning. We started our morning walk early and finished early.

It was a nice day and since we didn't have much to do, hubby decided to drive to Gopeng (hubby's hometown) for breakfast. We haven't been to Gopeng for a long time. When in Gopeng, we usually go for "lai fun" for breakfast in Kopisan village. "Kopisan" in Cantonese means coffee hill.

Wall mural: I LOVE YOU U KOPISAN (Kopisan written in Chinese character).

Kopi = coffee, san = hill or mountain.

Part of the mural was shaded by shadow, part with the sunlight on it.

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The noodle shop is opposite this wall mural.

Here, customers have to pick whatever ingredients we want and then queue to pay at the payment counter. I did the ordering and paying, and hubby went to get a table and order drink. Surprisingly, at 8:30am, there weren't many customers.

Lai fun (rice noodle) with fish paste and pig's head skin for hubby. (Sorry, Pig's head skin may sound gross to some of you.)

Plain "lai fun" (rice noodle) in clear soup with fish paste for me.

I picked some fried stuff consisting of fried meatballs, fried stuffed bean curd skin and 3 pieces of special fried items which is hubby's favourite.

I was told that the ingredients in these special fried item consist of fried anchovies, crispy fried lard, and etc. etc.

No wonder there weren't many customers eating there. We understand the increase in price but we realized that the quality of the soup has dropped. After breakfast, we drove around to see if there is any new changes.

Some of the older village houses have been torn down and rebuilt like this one here. More of these new houses are replacing the older houses.

Next, we drove to Gopeng town to look see, look see.

Then we saw this stall here.

Oh! It is a durian stall.

Most of Gopeng's durians are from the nearby hills. I love hill durians especially those brought down by the natives. Even though we just had breakfast, we stopped to buy one durian and ate it there and then. It was selling at RM10 per kilo and the durian we bought was RM15. Feeling satisfied, we drove back to Ipoh.

Linking to Monday Mural.

Just as Death and Destruction are never satisfied,

so human desire is never satisfied.

(Proverbs 27:20, New Living Translation-NLT)