IPOH, July 27 -- Think Ipoh, think food, think kai si hor fun, think chee cheong fun, think tau foo fah.

On most weekends, it's common to see folks from the Klang Valley flocking to the city for a taste of its rich food scene.

On long weekends, the crowd often swells into something closer to a horde.

After all, even if plenty of restaurants in the Klang Valley (some opened by the original Ipoh businesses themselves!) claim to serve Ipoh fare, nothing quite beats the real thing.

But venture a little further out of downtown, beyond the biscuit shops and bean sprout chicken, and things start to look a little different.

Buntong, a residential suburb known for Kampung Kacang Puteh, is just a ten-minute drive from the city centre and barel...