Kaki Lima RMIT

A nice convenient place as part of RMIT Building in the Melbourne CBD, this little cafe was part of growing Indonesia’s eatery places in Australia.

Alun Alun Market Based Review:
Came across this at the Alun Alun festival, saw the name crazy rice and was appealed to it!

It was a combination of meat - beef, sausages, corn chips and rice.

Beef was extremely soft and juicy, I even thought it was wagyu! Sausages and corn chips added a new element and texture as well as flavour complementing the whole dish.

The rice was moist, sticky and delicious, just like how you'd find it almost in a properly made authentic sushi in Japan.

In conclusion, it was 5/5 and would definitely come back to their stores in Melbourne to try the rest of the menu!

Well done!

Foods were good. Giving it two stars solely because of the worst customer service ever. Was asking them about the menu, the staff didn’t even answer nor look at us, she was busy playing with her phone.

Just had volcano chicken, food is good.portion could have been more but I'll still give 5stars as it was real good.thankyou

Very disappointed to some staff, it seems they don’t want to do their job well. No service mind, no feeling. Once they were taking order, just ask like “ what do u want? ” And I said ‘Can I get this one’ then she said what else with no feeling within 5 seconds after I answered her. It was very very rude I have no words to say it. But when she was talking with her co-worker she smiled and laughed. I thought she can’t smile. If you guys don’t want to the job please don’t come to work. If the owner sees this post please go to check with your employees please let’s them know to change their attitude to work with customer’s services mind. And this happened not just one time.

Low quality food with intense flavours, low service and sticky tables. Maybe suitable for the poor undiscerning uni students?

Very small tight restaurant and greasy messy environment. Food taste is good but portion is little for the price. Mee Goreng is like a glorified Ibumie instant mee goteng.

Personally I didn’t like the noodle (Mie Ayam/Babi) that they offer. It taste bland with strongly-dominated of pepper. Maybe I will give another chance later for their rice bowl. Hopefully it will taste good! L

Quite impressed with the quality and quantity of the food. I ordered a volcano chicken ($11.90) today as the chef said it was the most spicy one on the menu and it was spicy and then some. I'm definitely going to try the other items as well!

#2: Bang J Pork Noodle ($11.90)

#3: Crispy Chicken Rendang ($11.90)

#4: Grilled Fish Rica-Rica ($11.90)

#5: Crazy Rice ($12.90)

#6: Sukiyaki Cabe Ijo ($12.90)

Very ‘street’ vibe lil shop, looks like it’s not about to last if I’ll be honest, their soft serve machine was just a place holder for their cleaning materials… Not flexible at all with their menu, and well you don’t go to a food truck type store for the service, our food was sitting there on the sill from the kitchen to counter for so long I wanted to go grab it myself, and the girl was scrolling through her phone, cutting up food, walking around, until she realized oh this is their food…. ‍️
Look food wise is not bad and $14 is fine, since the food was fresh, the migoreng noodles were handmade freshly cooked as I saw her put it in, not the dried ones but fresh noodles so it had extra bite, but everything else was just poor. We asked what was good and how the menu worked and the girl at the counter said to me “you just choose”

Good rendang taste even at Indonesian tounge of mine:) the steamed vegie though is really clean no salt lol. Rendang on rice was $ 10.5. The fish though is dominantly spicy so i wont recommend that. I believe the business model serves the students lifestyle, cheap and quick service and bonus is that it's tasty. This is Feb 2022.

Came back in Aug 2022, price hasn't changed much but the quality has been compromised, just comparing the pictures, vegies are gone, meat and sauce is not enough, even the presentation is messy, very disappointing.

I am ordering beef rendang this afternoon, I paid extra money for more meat but no rice. The looks and taste are terrible.

This is the worst rendang I have in my life.

1 star for the crazy rice the one that has the hot dog in it.that’s got to be the worst I try all others dish there but the one that has hot dog pieces in it is very bad, the pork belly dish is good but please don’t get the dish that has hot dog in it you won’t be able to finish it it’s just taste so bad I had to thrown mine in the bin after 2 bites.

Very disappointed, used to be decent.
Just had a Butter Chicken that was mostly this mushy thick mash potato textured thing, guessing it's either batter or chicken fat. (Was not the cheese)

Been coming here since 2018, I love this place! Personal favourite is Indonesian Butter Chicken and Crazy Rice, also love that they offer brown rice. Staff here are always friendly and nice!

Charging for a new price with an old menu, then say the new menu hasn't arrived, but we are charging you the newly elevated fee anyways. Going large is a total scam; for $3.90, change the size of the bowl and call it “large”. I mean, I wouldn't mind paying the money but be ethical if you want to run a restaurant or any business. What is the purpose of a restaurant when you can’t even feed your customer enough? I went large because I am hungry, not because I am rich.
Also, Crazy rice has sausage with the skin on. Come on. This can't be Indonesian cuisine, right?
Sorry, but I hope your stall remains small.

This place used to be good during lockdown for its cheap price (when you have coupons), and I used to like the pork belly here.

But now the quality is very bad and unstable. The pork cracker on the pork belly is hard rather than crispy. The sukiyaki beef sticked together rather than thin slices, and has a smelly taste of old meat. The worst part: that evening after eating the meal, I got food poisoning. Reconsider before buying a discount voucher of this place

I’m a return customer. I order ayam geprek from ubereats and upgrade it to large size but they gave me the normal size. They didn’t even pick up the phone when I tried to call them many times.

Just feel disappointed.

Unfortunately, I can't say that the food quality is any good. This is a review after two visits, thinking there might be some inconsistencies with the food quality.

Had the Crispy Chicken Rendang and Pork Belly Sambal Matah the first time. Rendang sauce was very salty. Rice was mediocre. There was also a lot more rice compared to chicken rendang. The sambal matah tasted decent but there was so little sauce on it. Pork Belly has some crispy bits but not all. And again, plenty of rice which you'll end up eating by itself as there is insufficient sauce.

Second visit, had the Nasi Goreng with Lamb. Was expecting a flavour punch but got a very mediocre fried rice with small lamb pieces. Doesn't seem to have anything else. It was better than the Chicken Rendang but still wasn't great.

Melbourne has a lot of other better Indonesian places than this. Unfortunately, this one just didn't impress.

The fried chicken skin and grilled fish is awesome! I had it with brown rice, sambal sauce, can’t complain. I’d definitely come back.