Malaya Inn Doncaster - Melbourne

The March weekly special menu at $12.80 is very good value. The wok hei flavor is delicious and the portion sizes are generous. The service is excellent, with a dine-in meal type for lunch. The price per person ranges from A$20 to A$40. The food quality is rated 5 out of 5, as well as the service. The atmosphere is rated 3 out of 5. Highly recommended dishes include the Char Kway Teow.

While the interior of the Malaya Inn may be plain, the food is amazing here! The Singaporean fried Hokkein Mee was the best, had a very strong shrimp taste as it was simmered in seafood broth. The owner was from Singapore she said most of the Hokkein Mee in Melbourne are the Malaysian style, so the soy sauces makes the noodle looked brown instead. Kway Chap is a Teochew noodle soup consisting of flat, broad rice sheets in a soup made with dark soy sauce, served with an assortment of pork cuts including offal, pork belly, intestines, and pig's ears, braised duck meat, various kinds of beancurd, preserved salted vegetables, and braised hard-boiled eggs. The noodle reminded me of the Silver needle noodles in Taiwan but thicker. The assortments were placed on the side instead of within the soup. We thoroughly enjoyed this dish too! Their char kway teow is essentially fried hor fun but the char kway teow uses Chinese sausages. I reckon it was more delicious than other popular joints nearby. Probably because it's less oily. This place is also one of the few places that does chwee kueh (steamed rice cake served with preserved radish) and bak chor mee (minced meat noodles). Though I didn't like either as I find chwee kueh a bit tasteless and didn't like the use of vinegar in bak chor mee. The fried oyster omelette, fried carrot cakes, Loh bak, wah tan hor fun (they called it Yee mee combination on the menu) meegoreng were good, but not enough for me to order it again. Though my daughter did enjoyed the fried carrot cakes. We also had the yong tau foo laksa, it was nice but still too spicy for us even though the owner added extra chicken stock for us. The soup was very creamy, I will imagine someone who loves spicy food loving it. According to the reviews, it's very similar to what you get in Singapore. Lastly, we had the rojak (Malay salad) which is commonly found in Indonesia. It is a salad composed of a mixture of sliced fruit and vegetables served with a spicy palm sugar dressing. I think the sauce was interesting, it think it's made from ground chilli, palm sugar and peanuts. Both my daughter I didn't mind it, but my husband doesn't like it. All the portions were very big well priced. Might try the fish porridge fish head curry next time.

Strongly not recommend Food: 3 Service: 1 Atmosphere: 1

Dining in for lunch at this restaurant will cost you between A$20-40 per person. The food and service are both rated 5 out of 5, while the atmosphere is given a rating of 4.

Salty fish mee hoon tastes really good! Rojak and other dishes are average. Disappointed with the chicken kapitan or fried chicken? Overall is good but small portion served very slow probably lack of staff... Food: 3 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 3