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Ho Kai Cheong founded Ho Yan Hor herbal tea in Ipoh in 1941 with about $4 and a stall at No. 1 Treacher Street. His loudspeaker van made the brand famous. His son took it worldwide. This is the story.

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Ipoh's Birch Memorial Clock Tower has stood in Old Town since 1909. It has watched an empire arrive. And it has watched that empire leave. This is the story of the Perak clock that kept time through all of it.

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Ipoh Railway Station, the ‘Taj Mahal of Ipoh’, is more than a pretty building. Tin made Ipoh’s fortune. But it was the Perak railway, from 1885 onward, that carried that fortune out to the world.

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Most cities build their temples on the ground. Ipoh built its cave temples inside the hills. This is the story of Sam Poh Tong, Perak Tong and Kek Lok Tong, the Perak temples carved out of faith and limestone.

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Concubine Lane in Ipoh is barely a hundred metres long. You can walk it in two minutes. Yet this one narrow lane in Perak holds more of Ipoh's soul than any skyscraper could.

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