Rasa Malaysia Cafe

Where: Malvern East, Victoria, Australia
When: Thursday 7th July, 2011, Dinner
Occasion: Take Away
http://rasa.com.au/

Andrew and I had been dying to try this restaurant whilst we lived in the area, however, after many failed attempts to find the restaurant open, we presumed that it no longer operated as a restaurant.

One night on the way home from some friends in St Kilda, we drove passed there and Andrew noticed the place was open again so I thru a u-turn and we landed ourselves on their doorstep ordering take away.

The menu sounded promising and it had a good food guide sign in the window so we had high hopes of this restaurant. Furthermore, after our recent culinary delights tour of Malaysia that we did earlier this year, we knew what great Malaysian tastes like!

We ordered some traditional Malaysian entrees to begin with - Chicken Satays, Pandan Chicken and Curry Puffs. All of the dishes were around $8 or $9 for take away, so when we got home and realised that there were only 2 curry puffs, 3 satays etc., we were a little disheartened by the place. The best thing I can say about the entrees was the sauce that accompanied the pandan chicken. Usually this dish comes with some sort of sweet chilli sauce. Rasa Maylasia Cafe however included a sauce with a mayonaise type base and lots of herbs/spices in it. Lovely!

For main course we could not go past the Ipoh Hor Fun - Andrew's favourite dish. Although I feel like this dish in general tastes like burnt noodles with a sloppy sauce, Andrew loves it. And he thoroughly enjoyed Rasa's version too, describing it as having "subtle barbeque flavours in a rich gravy - delicious!" Ikan bilis and roti were also ordered. Both were tasty but nothing to write home about. Although it was great to finally have the opportunity to trial Rasa Malaysia Cafe, the Ipoh Hor Fun is the only dish worth returning for.