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Popiah or fresh spring rolls are delicious. They are eaten with a sweet sauce such as a bean sauce, a blended soy sauce or oyster sauce or a shrimp paste sauce and with hot chilli sauce before it is filled. The filling is mainly finely grated and steamed or stir-fried turnip or mengkuang which has been cooked. Other ingredients include bean sprouts, French beans, and lettuce leaves, grated carrots, thinly sliced fried tofu, finely chopped peanuts or peanut powder, fried shallots, and shredded fried eggs. Other common variations of popiah include include pork (lightly seasoned and stir-fried), shrimp or crab meat. Some hawkers will add fried pork lard.
Air Kacang Taiping coffee shop at Corner of Jalan paggung Wayang and Jalan Kelab Cina
The best popiah in Taiping
In Taiping, you will find the best popiah at the Air Kacang Taiping coffee shop at the corner of Jalan Panggung Wayang and Jalan Kelab Cina. Say hi to Ah Kuan, second generation popiah seller who inherited this delicious recipe from his mum who made Taiping popiah famous at the Tai Chen restaurant during the early 60s.
Black and White soya bean milk with cincau
While you are at the coffee shop, don't forget to try out the soya bean milk and soya bean curd. They are freshly made and creamy and the best in town.
The First Galleria Taiping is a private museum dedicated to showcase the many firsts throughout the history of Taiping.
The museum is located in the newly renovated PWD 105 located at Station Road just behind the Post office. This magnificent building was first used by the Perak Trigonometrical Survey Office in 1891 and by the Taiping Municipal Office in 1930.
The PWD 105 building
The old building rented out to a furniture dealer before First Galleria
Another view before the renovation
How Kota Road got its name..
An old trishaw on display..
An old train engine on its final journey just outside the building..
This area has seen development with the completion of a new overhead road over the railway line leading into Kampung Boyan. It was supposed to be a new roundabout over the railway but was redesigned to suit the budget and residents and traders are unhappy.
