Chinta Ria

Really nice food and really lovely service. I've been told before going that if you drop your chopsticks you will have a replacement in a second. I went in curious and made a joke that I would knock mine just to test this.. Since I'm a complete klutz, I actually ended up knocking mine over by accident and I kid you not, it was like someone was RIGHT THERE.. And my chopsticks were replaced. I didn't even have time to go down to pick mine up!!!

Chinta Ria is good. Good. But not great. The food is close enough to Malaysian street food and what Amma might have thrown together. But then they have strange concoctions like a battered, fried chicken doused in a mix of lemon juice, tomato sauce and mayo. It just didn't go down too well with Kway Teow. Kway Teow had two prawns in it, and at $24 you would expect, well, four. The Roti was really quite average, not as flaky and buttery as the bread-like substance back home. The Rendang, on the other hand, was wonderful. We considered giving it a 5 out of 5, but the service really lets this place down. A booking was made weeks in advance but we arrived and there was none. We were seated outside and noone really attended to us unless it was to take our orders or bring us the bill. We had to hound staff for water, hound them for incomplete orders and hound them for the dessert menu. In their defence, they were pretty flat-out and there was an ...read more

Lovely food in a great setting at the pier.
$38 banquet a hit and a really well decorated space.
Fantastic restaurant, reasonable prices, will be back.

Great food, I love eating here!

Whenever I have been to Chinta Ria the service has been quick and the food great. There's something to be said for continuity. The atmosphere is great, I love the giant Buddha in the middle of the room.