OldTown White Coffee (旧街场) is a franchised restaurant chain that started in Ipoh. As its name implies, it carries Ipoh’s white coffee as its signature beverage. It also serves a long list of Malaysian delights, highlighting Ipoh’s specialty dishes, and toasts, dim sum, nasi lemak and wide range of other rice and noodle dishes.
OldTown White Coffee has numerous outlets throughout Malaysia and Singapore. The nearest outlet in Johor Bahru is in JB City Square Shopping Centre, just across the Causeway.
The signature OldTown White Coffee (旧街场白咖啡) is a milk coffee using pre-mixed “white coffee”. In Malaysia’s coffee terms, “white coffee” refers to coffee beans that are slow-roasted without adding sugar and the end product has lighter colour. Ipoh’s white coffee uses coffee beans that are roasted with butter / margarine and served with condensed milk — do try white coffee-O without milk, it’s black.
The aromatic, creamy, full-bodied white coffee is a must-try when dining at OldTown. Aside from hot white coffee, their iced white coffee with and without hazelnut are nice too.
OldTown’s traditional Kaya & Butter Toasts (加央牛油烤面包) uses brown breads that are grilled until crispy with a pleasant aroma. The toasts are not too sweet and has rich buttery savouriness. It is a nice light bite for breakfast or afternoon tea.
The signature OldTown Ipoh Chicken Hor Fun (旧街场怡宝鸡丝河粉) is an Ipoh-specialty dish that features thin-flat Ipoh hor fun, fresh prawn, shredded chicken and spring onions in a rich, flavourful broth and a nice aroma when served. The hor fun is very soft with a chewy texture and the prawn-flavoured broth has a nice, sweet-savoury flavour — I can’t stop drinking it till the last drop. Amazingly, the prawn has a mellow sweet flavour instead of the characteristic “seafood” taste. A really nice Ipoh dish indeed.
The OldTown Prawn Meehoon & Mee (旧街场鲜虾米粉汤) uses thin rice vermicelli and thick yellow noodle in broth with half a hard-boiled egg, fresh prawns, fishcake, bean sprouts and greens. The broth is flavourful with rich prawn flavour and mild spiciness. It is a delightful dish to go for.
The Supreme BBQ Chicken & Fried Wantan Dry Egg Noodle (鸡叉烧炸云吞干捞全蛋面) is one sumptuous dish full of ingredients. There are fried dumplings, chicken char siew, fried tofu, fried tofu skin, minced chicken meat and bok choy on egg noodle tossed in a delightful sauce. It is delicious and a filling dish.
The Chicken Chop Springy Noodle (鸡扒干捞快熟面) has large pieces of chicken chop on thick springy noodle with fishcakes, a fried egg and vegetable. The well-fried chicken meat is succulent and tasty but not salty. The noodle is tossed in a nice savoury sauce that seems wet initially but gets absorbed by the noodle and not resulting in a too-dried dish.
Despite being housed inside JB City Square Shopping Centre, the OldTown White Coffee outlet is opened daily at 8am to serve breakfast — access via the entrance from JB Sentral.
If you are planning a trip to Ipoh, visit OldTown White Coffee Experience Centre in Ipoh Old Town to learn about its heritage, white coffee culture, arts and more.
See: Ipoh Eat: OldTown White Coffee Experience Centre @ Ipoh Old Town
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JB City Square, Level 3, Lot J3-25A
106-108, Jalan Wong Ah Fook, Bandar Johor Bahru, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
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8am to 10pm | Daily
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