Last night the bf and I wanted to go out for dinner. The criteria were 1. inexpensive and 2. of the Asian variety. We settled on Rasa after reading reviews on Urbanspoon. We brought our own bottle of wine and a bottle of beer. Corkage is $1.10 per person and they only charged us for two even though the beer required a separate glass. Our server was excellent. As soon as he saw we had a bottle of white, he immediately brought a bucket with ice, as well as two wine glasses and a cold beer glass, along with a bottle of water and two water glasses. I am always disappointed with service in Australia, but this guy was great and is probably the reason I'm giving Rasa 3 stars instead of 2.
The food was fine. There was nothing wrong with it, but it was, well, boring. We started with the pork balls...good, but essentially just pork in a wonton wrapper that were steamed. Presentation was nice. For mains, I had the "Rasa" stir-fry with chicken. It was tomato based and I liked it. The flavors were good and the chicken was moist. The bf had the "cashew" stir-fy with beef and it was "eh". I though it lacked flavor. He thought the beef was a bit chewy. I'm used to cashew beef being in a "brown" sauce whereas this one was more of a "white" sauce. Soy sauce would have helped.
Overall, the food was fine and filling and the server was excellent, but, given the number of inexpensive Asian places in the area, I think we'll try other places before coming back to Rasa. read more