A Taste of Spice — Restaurant in Queensland

I am British-born Malaysian. All my family coming from Malaysia and I have been to Malaysia over 20 times. I am passionate about Malaysian food and want it to be done well and represented accurately around the world. This restaurant was a poor imitation of Malaysian food and I regret ever visiting it.

Most of the people here giving this place good reviews I can only assume do not know what Malaysian food is.

The Char Kuey Teow was terrible, it had BBQ flavour and no Sambal or Belacan at all. It was definitely not freshly made.

The Piratha came out of a frozen packet from Coles and was raw in the middle. I know because I use the same frozen packet Piratha at home after a long day at work when I can’t be bothered to cook. Just go on YouTube and learn to make a Piratha it’s cheap it’s not hard, there’s no excuse for laziness.

The Ikan Bills was simply fried anchovies in oil burnt to a crisp. There was no sambal sauce to it or any discernible Malaysian flavour at all.

Areas for improvement: Ask your Chefs to taste Malaysian food and understand what it is they are trying to replicate. Send them to Malaysia for a week and they will feel ashamed at masquerading what they cook as Malaysian food. I spoke to the Chef and none were Malaysian or had even been to Malaysia. Yet your establishment proudly advertises this as Malaysian food.

The service was however good, the food came quickly (likely though because not freshly prepared and just heated up). The staff members were nice and the Chef when found out I was dissatisfied did offer to try to change the flavour of the dish by adding more Sambal. These people are trying, but it’s not good enough.

I can’t comment on the Thai, Chinese or Indian dishes they cook.

Simple put: I don’t like to leave bad reviews but I hope this acts as a catalyst to DO BETTER.

This is a message for the owners and not directed at the staff working there, who did a good job. If you’re going to profit out of Malaysian food the least you can do is do it well. Feel free to contact me on here and I would be happy to even have a phone call to...

Taste of Spice is an institution for a reason….. actually a few.

For over 14 years, owners Shelly and Anil, have honed Malaysian culinarily perfection.

There are many fantastic dishes though after watching not just my plate on dozens of meals, there’s general consensus, maybe even a cult following that this is the best Charquetow and Singapore noodles most have ever tied….. to the point where many return to the area from our of state, and a couple, the country for these dishes. And that’s over the Magical area of Noosa.

When you come back for a dish over years, sometimes multiple times a week, you get to know the consistency within and between the chefs.

Not only is this consistency profound but they’ll remember how they cooked it for you and iteratively bring out more of the flavors you taste, love and communicate from last time or a dazzlingly identical replica. In this kitchen, Anil’s pride is evident in the deliberate precision of each dish, from his hands or those he’s trained, it’s something you’ll more often see in fine dining. Out front Shelly is lovely, anticipating your requests, receptively listening with respectful warmth complimenting the food in more than a little contrast to your average...

I agree completely with previous low ratings. The curry puffs are frozen mass manufactured and verging on plastic. There were no indentifiable contents, and the curry flavour was insipid. I also ordered nasi goreng with satay skewers. The nasi goreng contained NO vegetables, a bit of egg white, one slice of char siu, about four minute colourless canned shrimp of some sort, and a couple of red slivers that could not be identified. The satay chicken skewers were fried until dry and topped with a curry-like sauce that owed more to Clive of India curry powder than to the spicy peanut satay sauce from Indonesia. At $20 and sitting in one of Noosa's not so iconic locations it's nothing to get five starry about. How previous reviews could rate this grub highly amazes me. If this restaurant was in Malaysia or Singapore it would fold in a month. It just goes to show that most Aussies have no idea when it comes to authentic Asian food if they rate this place as a really authentic Asian food experience. Given food quality, price, and location, one star is generous and probably only awarded because the...