Chinta Ria Mood For Love

The Chinta Ria Mood for Love restaurant is the Love Child of the legendary Chinta Ria Temple of Love that once existed at Darling Harbour four years ago. Located on the top restaurant level 5 of Sydney Westfield, the restaurant is a perfect destination for a delicious Malaysian meal either at lunchtime or for a dinner time treat. David, Alison and the welcoming staff never fail at making you welcome. I've been going to the Chinta Ria group of restaurants for over fifteen years and the service and food are never disappointing. My favourite dishes to sample here are the Chicken Satay, Sassy Rolls, Springy’s Rolls, Curry Chicken, Beef Rendang, Ayam Ria and Char Kway Teow. All these dishes are full of Malaysian You flavour and portions are generous in size. My dessert favourite is the Pandan Sago Pudding! The restaurant has a fully licensed bar with cocktails, wines and beer. Highly recommended for the best Malaysian food in Central Sydney.

Whilst wandering around Westfield Sydney, I noticed Chinta Ria had a winter special that included soba noodles with crispy fish Maksa glass of wine for $16.80. I loved every part of this dish, the soup was creamy sweet sour, the fish was meaty fresh with crispy skin and who doesn’t love noodles! Although they no longer have this special, I will sure go back to enjoy other delicious dishes. On a side note, the service was average both times I was there.

With so many Malaysian restaurants available in the city, I believe the standout feature would be taste, pricing, ambiance and service. For me the restaurant scored well in terms of pricing, ambiance and service but was slightly lacking in terms of taste. We ordered chicken satay, curry chicken and nasi goerang and I must say we enjoyed having them all but in hindsight when you compare it with other outlets like Mamak and Malaya you will say there’s was a bit better .I felt chicken satay was a bit chewy and it could have been better. Curry chicken was tasty with tender chicken pieces and as per my wife Nasi Goerang was also okay. Although, the seafood smell was so strong in Nasi Goerang that it was overpowering the usual Nasi Goerang aroma. <br/ <br/ One call out for our server, we showed her some dirt on the rim of water bottle and not only she replaced it but I saw her checking all the bottles to ensure its clean. Such dedication and accountability must be complimented. And only because of her I am happy to ignore it.<br/ <br/

Super popular Malaysian favourite with a vast menu and great service. Lunchtime is pretty busy so try to make a booking if you want to dine here. Started with the Billie's Roll $8.80 for 2 pieces) which is a delicious prawn roll stuffed w minced prawns! Mmmm, crunchy! Mee Goreng with assorted seafood was tasty and not too salty. Would highly recommend the Oh Dear Fish $32) which is pan fried wild barramundi fillets w fresh tomato and green beans in a curry and coconut broth. The flavours are exceptional and go perfectly with the barranmundi! A great choice in a competitive environment!

Chinta Ria Mood for Love is at the top level of the Westfield shopping centre. It is a restaurant, rather than the food court style place. The menu offers Malaysian fare and we were here for the $20 deal, available Sun Wedn when quoting aroundtheclockfoodie. Basically you get an entree and street food option or a street food option and dessert. We both went with the entree option, ordering beef and chicken satay sticks. They had a lovey sauce to accompany them. For the mains, we had the hokkien veggie noodles a large serving with a dark soya sauce. We also had the Bee Hoon Goreng; noodles with prawns and squid. They kindly gave us a small dessert to share. Food servings were generous and an easy meal to take a rest from shopping.