Its been literally years since I visited Chinta Ria, at least 5 years to be exact, so when Gina, Teena and I go there for a girl’s weekend lunch we’re all curious to see whether things have changed. Walking through the heavy wooden doors with the sashes of colourful cloth and a large smiling buddha with incense and pineapple offerings for the gods, it appears that little has changed. As its a glorious summer’s day, we are sitting outside amongst the little garden under large umbrellas. As with all girls’ lunches, we take a while to decide what to order as catching up seems more important and the patient waiter comes several times to see whether we’re ready to order.
As its hot I feel like a salad but the menu doesn’t have any salad or cooler offerings. Fair enough, after all its Malaysian hawker food. What the menu does have are funky sounding names such as “Satchmo’s Squid”, “Blakey’s Beef”, “Ikan Melody” and “Sassy’s Duck”. We’re steered towards an entree item that always has us laughing, Parker’s Gems. And I don’t mean to offend, you do see, but Teena’s husband’s last name is Parker and we always have a giggle that we’re consuming his “gems” 
. Along with these, we order one of the specials: Udang Merah aka Red Prawns ($28) as well as the Fried Kway Teow ($17) and the Ayam Blues ($22.50).
Parker’s Gems $8.60
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