What a Malaysian restaurant menu carries and charges, from the 12 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Indonesian.
Menu length
96 dishes
the median; the middle 80% list 34 to 175
Sections
15
on the median menu
The typical dish
$17.85
the median of each menu’s median price, across 12 menus
How long the menus are
Middle half of 12 menus: 44 to 167Median 96Scale stretched at the low end
What most of them carry
Share of menus listing itMedian price
Beef rendang$28.5075%, 9 menus. Middle half $24.50 to $29, across 9 menus pricing it
Nasi goreng$19.9075%, 9 menus. Middle half $17.90 to $21.80, across 9 menus pricing it
Steamed rice$475%, 9 menus. Middle half $3.90 to $4, across 9 menus pricing it
Mee goreng$19.9058%, 7 menus. Middle half $17.90 to $20, across 7 menus pricing it
Nasi lemak$20.0858%, 7 menus. Middle half $15 to $21.25, across 6 menus pricing it
Char keow teow$19.9050%, 6 menus. Middle half $18.90 to $19.90, across 6 menus pricing it
Curry chicken$23.1850%, 6 menus. Middle half $22.90 to $23.35, across 6 menus pricing it
Coconut rice$4.5050%, 6 menus. Middle half $4 to $4.80, across 5 menus pricing it
Soft drinks$4.5050%, 6 menus. Middle half $4.10 to $4.50, across 6 menus pricing it
Gado gado$2342%, 5 menus. Middle half $19.50 to $24, across 5 menus pricing it
Singapore noodle$21.2542%, 5 menus. Middle half $17.90 to $21.90, across 5 menus pricing it
Vegetarian fried rice$17.9042%, 5 menus. Middle half $16.25 to $20.11, across 5 menus pricing it
Vegetarian spring roll$1042%, 5 menus. Middle half $6.60 to $10.90, across 5 menus pricing it
Roti canai33%, 4 menus
Roti curry33%, 4 menus
A price is shown once at least 5 of these menus price the dish.
The sections they use
Drinks42%
Rice dishes33%
Vegetables33%
Seafood25%
Stir fried noodles25%
Sweets25%
Section names as menus print them, folded together when they differ only in case or punctuation.
Your own menu
Give us your menu and we will set it against places like yours, dish by dish, with how many menus each answer rests on. It is free.
We read menus from venues’ own websites, as they publish them, between 13 and 16 October 2026. Each menu counts once, prices as printed. A chain’s branches that serve the same menu count as one menu. We never name a venue: every figure here is a median, a range or a share, with the number of menus it rests on.