Rumah Aneka Restaurant - Highett — Restaurant in Melbourne

I returned after some time to the Rumah Aneka. Lovely people work here. There are a great Vegetarian options. I had beef rendang, my friend Gado Gado and both of us enjoyed delicious food with roti and coconut rice. Coconut water was vey refreshing. The restaurant is not licensed but you can bring your bottle of wine. We have dine on Thursday night and the restaurant was full. Its good to make booking, then to miss it. We shall return to the Rumah Aneka.

After regular visits to Black Rock, where they use to be before many years, we have returned to this lovely family owned restaurant. Restaurant is not big and all tables have been occupied even on Thursday night. People who didn't book table have missed it.

We happily did order their banquets for 4 and all did enjoy lovely entry of plan roti. satay chicken skewers with homemade satay sauce. Curry Puffs (Vegetarian/Homemade),. Spring Rolls (Vegetarian/Homemade)  and Prawn Dumplings.

Main did include as per our choice Rendang beef, Singapore noodles, Sweet and spicy prawns, spinach, rice and  as dessert sago...

Giving this a star for the good friendly service & very cheap prices - unfortunately not much else nice to say. Food was just really poor quality, Beef Rendang was sickly sweet - it's only have a very small amount of palm sugar in it and this was overpowering and utterly destroyed the taste. Nonya chicken curry used very cheap quality thigh fillets & while flavour was OK it was not at all authentic. Satay sauce seemed like it was just melted peanut butter but with almost no chilli/coconut milk or the other required spices - attached satay sticks were deep fried and dried out. Possibly one of the worst Malaysian meals we've had in Melbourne and that's a pretty low benchmark too. I'm not sure if the other reviewers giving it high stars here have any idea what Malaysian food is even supposed...

This place is a LOCAL GEM - and great VALUE - don’t let looks deceive you!

We are regulars for takeaway - food is incredibly delicious. Probably the best Rendang I have had in many many years. Meat soft and with a sweet note to it and they give you lots of meat!

The servings for takeaway are VERY VERY GENEROUS and always ready close to the time promised. I am not exaggerating when I say I am always surprised at the heavy weight of the takeaway bag when I collect it.

We haven’t dined in yet almost every time I pickup, the dining room is near full with families and couples. It’s cosy yet well presented and clean.

Parking is out front is often near full but usually one or two bays...