If you are driving from KL to Penang, its a place to stop for lunch.

There are some cave temples that some people might find interesting but thats about it. The Station Hotel is purely to colonial nostalgic purposes. It was nostalgic when I was growing up 40 years ago so heavens knows what it must be like now. Been reading the reviews on TripAdvisor and the comments made last year is the exact same ones I would have made 40 years ago.

If you do stop of lunch, Ipoh is famous for its Ipoh rice noodle soup with chicken - very bland but its a local speciality of the town