Straits Cafe

Great tasty food!

Got to try

Authentic Malaysian. Delicious.

Char Kue Teow is the best

excellent food

Wonderful stir fried noodle. Authentic Malaysian food

Good Malaysian food

Best noodles ever!

Straits Cafe at Wantirna Visited on 20/6/2021 Usually this is where you can find many Malaysian foodies. My wife and I arrive before noon, and therefore the restaurant is not busy. The Chow Kuey Teow CKT is what Straits Cafe renowned for. Good CKT should not be too oily, fried at very high temperature to the extent that the flat noodles are slight burnt to give a charred aroma or Wok Hei. I am quite contented with simple plain CKT which just comes with fried eggs, chive, bean shoots, garlic and deep fried pork bits. The latter two ingredients are of utmost important to make or break a good CKT. Straits CKT has Wok Hei, prawns, egg, fish cake, Chinese sausage, bean shoots, miserable couple of deep-fried pork bits, and chpped spring onion instead of chive. It is pretty good, and I enjoy it. This is my first time to try the Crispy Belachan Chicken Spare Ribs and Rice. Marinated with belachan definite,y gives an unusual flavour, but does affect negative,y the appearance of the end product. Unfortunately the spare ribs pieces are not big, and are a bit dry caused by over-frying. The so called famous chicken rice has too much liquid in it. The photo shows tiny bright reflection of the camera light from grains of rice. The Nonya kuihs are for sale, displayed at the end of dining area, next to the kitchen. These are outsourced, and do not form part of the menu. The Ang Gu, or red tortoise, does not has the normal intense pillar red colour. However, I can truly recommend it. The texture is good, still soft even at low winter temperature without putting through a microwave oven. I wonder what kind of oil is used in the cooking. It probably has high burning point, and the distinct taste exust in both dishes. I have very sensitive taste buds, and unlikely many people can detect it. Kuih Talam is my favourite Nonya kuih, but this one does not pass all my ticks. I like the creamy santan top layer, but the bottom part lacks that lye water taste. There is a surcharge on credit card payment.

Came here on an early Sat for a brunch meal and it was a full house when we arrived. We knew what we wanted, which were the popiah, lobak, har mee and tang hoon noodles. The fried glass noodles (char tang hoon) is the best version we ever tried! The lobak was crispy and I was very happy that there were all individually wrapped and deep fried. Har mee has a rich flavour and it was full of umami-ness. Popiah was also equally scrumptious. It was a satisfying meal and we were all very well fed. Must try if you crave for Malaysian food!