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Hakka Restaurant: From Childhood Wedding Banquets to Hospitality
Hakka Restaurant is a family dining room dressed for a Hakka celebration. The full story behind the room and the feast dishes is in the Aevum app, coming soon.
By Aevum Editorial, written by Joan V. · Published · Updated
In short: Hakka Restaurant (客家菜馆) is a family-run dining room in Ipoh New Town, dressed around the joy of a Hakka celebration. The full story is in the Aevum app, which is coming soon.
A dining room that feels like a gathering
Step inside and the first things you see are round tables. Each one has a lazy Susan, a teapot, wooden chairs pulled up as if a family might sit down at any moment. Enamel pendant lights hang from the ceiling. The plaster on the walls has worn back to patches of grey, cream and blue. Calligraphy hangs in wooden frames. At the far end, an arched window throws panes of green, yellow and blue light across the floor.
It is a shophouse interior, not a ballroom. And yet the founders did not treat it as an ordinary café. Along one wall stand wine jars. Couplets and paintings run between old wooden doors. The tables are the size you use when more than two people are meant to eat together.
Many of the plates sit against red silk and peonies. Behind a bowl of tiger-skin pork with peanuts, a red container marked with the double-happiness character 囍 waits like a guest at a wedding.
Why they built the room this way, and the path that brought them here, are in the Aevum app. Download the Aevum app (coming soon)
A public listing places the town restaurant at 18, Jalan Yau Tet Shin, in Ipoh New Town. Hours differ from listing to listing, so it is better to check with the restaurant before you go. The plates on the table are only half of what the founders wanted to recreate.
Read the rest of this Hakka story in the Aevum app
Next: why the founders opened this room, and the memory they wanted guests to walk into.
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Questions
What is Hakka Restaurant?
Hakka Restaurant (客家菜馆) is a family-run Hakka restaurant in Ipoh New Town, on Jalan Yau Tet Shin. The dining room is dressed around the joy of a Hakka celebration. The founders' story, and the memory behind that theme, are in the Aevum app, which is coming soon.
Where is Hakka Restaurant?
A public listing places the town restaurant at 18, Jalan Yau Tet Shin, 30300, in Ipoh New Town. Please confirm the address with the restaurant before you go. Some listings also mention a second branch; this story is about the town restaurant.
What Hakka dishes is the restaurant known for?
Dishes the restaurant highlights include stuffed tofu (酿豆腐 / 酿豆腐卜), abacus seeds (算盘子), yam pork belly, mei cai kou rou, Pusing-style stewed duck (布先狗仔鸭), drunken chicken, and tiger-skin pork with peanuts.
Why is the restaurant decorated for a wedding?
The room uses festive reds and the double-happiness character 囍, and the founders chose a theme of marriage and starting a family. Why that theme matters to them is part of the story in the Aevum app, which is coming soon.
Sources
All accessed 6 November 2026.
- Story shared by the founding family.
- Business-supplied photos and materials, including the restaurant’s own menu, courtesy of Hakka Restaurant.
- Public listing (address cross-check): 客家菜馆 - 街场总行 | Hakka Restaurant Ipoh Town, Skip Menu, which places the town restaurant at 18, Jalan Yau Tet Shin, Ipoh, Perak, 30300.
