To be honest, Ipoh Old Town is not an area I want to head to as an Ipohite, especially during weekends and holidays. There'll be scores of tourists that one could hardly walk in a straight line. However, seeing that it has been months since I last visited, I recently made an effort to go, ... continue reading »

Lorong Panglima (Panglima Lane), or better known locally as Concubine Lane (or Yi Lai Hong in Cantonese), is a narrow, uneven path, in Old Town Ipoh, believed to have been established in 1908. The shophouses here, which were mainly occupied by kept women of tin tycoons in the old days, hence its nickname, are now mostly ... continue reading »