Rice Workshop restaurant @ Little Bourke St review

There are a number of cheap-eat restaurants in Melbourne. Generally, you can get a decent meal from any of these restaurants with less than $10. Rice Workshop is one of them. There are two Rice workshop outlets in Melbourne CBD. One is located on Little Bourke street and the other is at Emporium food court on level 3. 

Rice Workshop on Little Bourke st is one of those cheap-eat restaurants that I'll pop by to get a quick lunch on the busy workdays. It's a fairy small restaurant with a few seating on the ground floor but there is also a seating area on the first floor. Similar to a fastfood outlet, customers would place their order at the counter, collect and pay before getting a seat or packing the food for a take away. It's pretty much self service. 

There is considerbly quite a selection from their menu ranging from various rice bowls, noodles bowls to salad bowls as compared with Don Don and Hanaichi which have the similar setup. Besides that, there are some ready made sides which you could add on to your meal. 

Ontama teriyaki chicken is my favourite at Rice Workshop. Although there was a lack of grilled effect on the chicken, the meat was tender soft. I especially love the perfectly cooked soft boiled egg which really made an egg-cerlent meal! 

Well, it's often hard for me to resist topping up my meal with additional sides such as the prawn tempura and crab croquette. I have to say that the prawn tempura was really good. The prawn was coated with an adequete thickness of crispy batter and it's not oily.

During one of my visits, I have a taste on the tempura prawn and veggie udon bowl and topped it with a soft boiled egg as well as some croquettes. By the way, I always request for the tempura to be separated from the udon noodles to maintain the crisyness of the tempura. While the tempura prawn and veggie were good, the udon noodles weren't great. The soup was lack of flavours other than saltiness.  

Overall, Rice Workshop on Little Bourke St is a great place to grab a quick lunch as the food is decent and affordable.