Anzac Parade Kensington is the little Indonesia of Sydney. We wanted to eat at Ayam Goreng 99, but it was packed to the brim, so we headed next door, to the much more upmarket, and (hence) less packed Ratu Sari instead.
Food
The food contains your typical Indo dishes, as well as some more unusual offerings. We’d already fuelled up a bit beforehand, so were only looking for a light feed. There are items on the menu to cater for all. I chose the Soto Ayam ($8) – sliced chicken, potatoes & sprouts in a unique coconut milk soup. The serving was smaller than I expected, and tasted very much like a gravy like broth. It wasn’t exactly unpleasant, but there was not really any complexity in flavour like Thai cuisine. The chicken was a bit dry and tough, but was ok once you soften it in the broth.
Slokky’s Lontong Sayur ($10.50) – rice cakes with taucho tofu, lodeh vegetables, peanuts & egg in spicy coconut milk, served with rending beef. Don’t ask me what “taucho” tofu and “lodeh” vegetables are, because I can’t really tell. The sauce on this one is better, with some spicy and sour notes. The rice cakes are really that, like glutinous rice stuck together, and were not very big on texture or taste. There were only 2 mouthful of rending, and that was pretty tender and the sauce was good, if only there were more.
All in all, the food was ok, just very unexciting. They got some pretty good reviews from SMH though, so maybe we just ordered wrong? Well, I'm not going to find out as there are just too many other restaurants to try.
Rating - 6
Atmosphere
Well, it’s basically like a low-class restaurant trying to act high class. What I mean is that they try to create the designer look (square white plates, stainless steel, decoration), but they used such cheap imitation, it just looks tacky. I think I would accept this place if they were really bare and basic, as I would take it as it is. It was trying to be upper class, with the prices to match, but the quality just isn’t there. Above all, it doesn’t matter whether you are the most expensive restaurant or the cheapest, serving stuff on chipped plates is NOT acceptable.
If you want to escape the student crowd though, you’re better off choosing this place, as there were more "older" people and families here. For me, give me the atmosphere of the students and the prices to match any day!
Rating - 0.5
Service
Well, they weren’t rude, but they weren’t polished, pretty much reflects the atmosphere of pretending to be something better than it is.
Rating - 3
C-factor
It’s a pretty cheap feed, but the portions aren’t very big and the quality not that great.
Rating - 0.5
Brownie Points - 10
Info
470 Anzac Pde
Kingsford
NSW 2032
Phone (02) 9662 8788
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