We wanted to go the famous Restoran Paris Hakka Mee but it has been closed for 2 days. So we settled for the hakka mee stall at Restoran Cathay. I haven't had enough Hakka mee to compare but I like the friendliness of the stall owner.

Hakka Mee is a favourite breakfast among many Ipoh-reans. You just have to order single portion, one and a half portion or double portion, then they will pick the different yong tau foo items for you. The eggy noodles are topped with a scoop of minced meat seasoned with soy sauce and fish sauce.

Celebrate Christmas the Chinese way at this Mitzo, Singapore, with a Festive Merriment menu that will have your tum feeling jolly. The higher-tier set menu rolls out a Festive Platter with barbecued pork and soft shell crab wrapped with salted egg charcoal puff for the first course, and follows up with double-boiled abalone soup with winter melon, pork ribs and lotus leaf, steamed live Boston lobster and poached noodles topped with pork ribs.

And as for dessert? Champagne jelly served with rose tea crush and lychee caviar sounds fine and dandy to us!

May King Lam Mee - This place has been around for almost 50 years and still serving up one of the best lam mee in town. There is no mistaking their rich, thick starchy sauce poured over thick yellow noodles topped with cabbage, prawns, pork slices, fried shallots and sprinkled with spring onions.

The sauce clings to the noodles as you take each bite giving you a deep rich flavoursome mouthful.