Cinta Raya Restaurant — Restaurant in Melbourne

Parents of young kids, do yourself a favour and do not dine in in this Cinta Raya Restaurant. The ladies are mostly nice, one lady seems like a boss lady who recommended good food for us, in a pretty bossy way. I was fine with that, everybody speak in different way. But at one point, my baby started crying because he was sleepy but couldn’t fell asleep in the noise. We tried standing, rocking, going outside, but my older one followed outside and it was not very safe for him to be playing in the carpark so I went back inside and try to comfort my baby in my seat. The lady told me in mandarin ‘he wants milk! He wants milk! Don’t let him cry like that inside, bring him out!’ It was a shock for me and excused me, I know my baby was just fed an hour ago, he needs sleep not milk, but we didn’t say anything and kept our head down. The same lady also told another family with 3 young boys ‘Wa these are all yours? Oh my god.’ She proceeded to say ‘Too many kids. Look at this.’ while turning around looking and gesturing at our table. I couldn’t help but look at this lady with shock and disappointment every time she passed by our table. Everyone was stressed out, my husband, my mom and myself, until the baby calmed down in my hubbys arm.

I mean the food there is amazing and this lady she is a good waitress but hack she dislikes children, at least that’s the impression she gave me during this meal.

So don’t bring your young children to dine in here as a favour for her and yourself. Because no one should ever feel ashamed for their baby being a baby and think they’re bad parents because their baby cries. I do feel sorry for bothering other customers with my baby’s noise, but I mean I didn’t ask them to be quite so my baby can sleep. I think any decent adult can appreciate and be considerate as parents try their best to calm their crying baby, look after an older boy and at the same time finish the food quickly so they can get out soon.

Honestly I don’t ever write reviews, but something triggered me inside as a mom that I have to...

Feb 2024: back for our regular Malaysian fill of great authentic dishes. Since it was within 15 days of CNY, we were lucky to be able to taste their CNY pork belly dish. Yumm! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Dec2023: Ahhh … the satisfaction of having consistency in quality and taste of food!! I love Cinta Raya for that. Hokkien Mee, CLT, Yinyong, Kamheong pipis, nyonya barramundi - all the best taste of Malaysia in one place.

Today we had sambal prawns with salted fish chicken fried rice yummy 😋

Aug 2023: Still my favourite Malaysian as food taste is consistently delicious and authentic esp CKT (with wok hei), (Real) Hokkien mee, wantan hor , nasi lemak, nyonya barramundi, four heavenly kings, King toh pork chop, sambal prawn/calamari, etc etc …

Dec2022: Been a year now since discovering this amazing restaurant. Still am a regular and Kak Shirley is the best!! Love the cooking because they are consistently delicious!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Update: I am addicted to food in this restaurant! Best Malaysian ever!!! Thanks, Shirley and boys!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Trying out this place despite remarks of bad service attitude. It seems to be the norm for chinese older generation to speak a bit more brusquely. The lady was answering the phone, cleaning, serving, taking orders - all by herself. I can understand her “grumpiness”.

She was actually quite motherly towards us, suggesting the 4 Heavenly Kings to accompany our order of Nyonya barramundi. They were both delicious. I couldn’t stop tucking into the okra, brinjal, petai and long beans. Barramundi was cooked to perfection and went so well with the nyonya style gravy.

I absolutely recommend this place to those who want to try authentic Malaysian cooking. Shirley is lovely and may cone across as terse but she has a heart of gold.

Seems their signature dish is Hainanese chicken Rice. Will try another time, cos...

The PERFECT CELEBRATION dinner making 35 YEARS since my parents, sister and I moved to Australia in 1990, all four of us being Malaysian born Chinese Australia citizens what better way to commemorate it than...an absolutely INCREDIBLE Malaysian feast from Cinta Raya Restaurant in Scoresby (albeit we celebrated a few days earlier, we actually arrived in Australia on July 12th 1990)?

It was Uber Eats takeaway who delivered our Cinta Raya Restaurant feast to us - THANK YOU so much to our delivered driver we are so grateful, you deserve to be very highly commended by both Uber Eats AND Cinta Raya - and many thanks and lots of gratitude to my sister for arranging abd paying for most of our food!

Most importantly, THANK YOU so much to the absolutely AMAZING team at Cinta Raya Restaurant for the absolutely INCREDIBLE Malaysian food you flawlessly prepared and packed for us - photos of which I have uploaded with this 5-star Google review - we are especially grateful to you all!

Cereal prawns, coconut rice, beef rendang, Marmite spare ribs, Noyona style Barramundi and dessert namely the pulut hitam glutinous black rice and sago pudding (both with sugar and coconut milk)...first rate Malaysian cuisine, 100% authentic, 100% nostalgic, 100% delicious and 100% took us back to Malaysia.

My parents, sister and I very highly recommend Cinta Raya Restaurant in Scoresby...make it one of your go to Malaysian restaurants today for eat in, takeaway or Uber Eats delivery, they...