MELBOURNE | Lim Kopi is a Malaysian restaurant that’s popular with Malaysian expats in Melbourne, looking for a proper taste of home. Their Facebook pages lists a simple mission statement ‘our ambition is to make you feel like home’. I visited on behalf of What’s On Melbourne to find out more.
As someone who isn’t Malaysian, I can’t speak to that fact, but by all accounts from Malaysians that I’ve spoken to, the food at Lim Kopi does transport them back to home. As someone who has visited Malaysia before, it certainly evokes memories of delicious feeds while there.
The menu is extensive, featuring a wide assortment of dishes. Favourites like nasi lemak, char keow teow, and fish head curry. A great place to start is some of the signature dishes. Special sauce chee cheong fun is a delicious plate of flat rice noodles topped with an assortment of fried goodies, dried onion, sesame, and a sweet and spicy special sauce.
The Malaysia curry mee is another must try. Thin noodles in a fragrant curry soup, topped with potatoes, bean sprouts, long green beans, spring onions, and bean curd. Char kway teow, with generous amounts of wok charred noodles, prawns, fish cake, egg, bean sprout, and chives, is also great. I highly recommend getting both with the optional blood cockles.
To drink, it’s a great selection of made to order hot and cold coffee and tea drinks like Kopi O, Teh C, and Kopi Cham. There’s also soft drinks and packaged teas.
Lim Kopi
542 Little Bourke Street
Melbourne
Victoria 3000
Australia
Telephone: 0452 642 883
E-mail: [email protected]
Website
Open
Mon – Sun: 11:00am to 9:00pm