‘Old Cottage’
We thank Merrill Leong for these pictures 
Anyone remember this food stall? To what we know, it was somewhere in Ipoh Garden South – but the question is WHERE!
To the food-lovers: I know you’re dying to tell us about your culinary-adventures…..so feel free to ‘make our mouths water’ 
Was this pic taken in the 1980s?..or 90s
Old Cottage operated in 2 different places that I still remember.
I first saw the stall in a corner coffee-shop at Tingkat Taman Ipoh 10, in Ipoh Garden South. The second picture looks to me it was that place.
I next saw it again operating at a shop near the Majestic cinema.
The food-stall stuck in my memory because food was served in good quality crockery and he and the chef (the wife) well-attired.
Old Cottage operated in 2 different places? hmm…..have you been to the shop near the former Majestic cinema Ah Lai?
I think Old Cottage was founded in 1987 and Leomg Fu passed away in the early 90′s (92?). During that short span the Old Cottage Brand was franchised from the original Ipoh Stall and there were outlets all over Malaysia from Penang in the north to Johore Bahru in the South and even as far as Kota Kinabalu to the East. 10 towns and some 12 outlets. What a success!
I believe the photos are from the late 80′s.
Correct me if any of this is wrong.
Felicia #3
Yes, I patronised in the both the places.
I tried to check the street name in Google Earth but it was not labelled. His stall was located at the block of shopa adjoining to the car park of Majestic cinema.
These pictures show Mr Leong’s stall at the side of Kedai Kopi 123 a corner lot at Ipoh Garden South – facing the former Ipoh Garden Berhad (IGB) corporate office (the pine trees) but, now demolished and turned into rows of shophouses along the Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah Utara.
Ika, you are correct. Leong Fu passed away on 6 January 1991 in Ipoh from a stroke. After that Mrs Leong Fu (@ Esther Ho) sold the business and moved in with her daughter in Kuala Lumpur. The new business operator did not continue the business for long.