Ayam Penyet Ria - Adelaide

Name: Ayam Penyet Ria - Adelaide
Address: 12 Pirie Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Telephone: +61 405 601 593

Restaurant · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

About Ayam Penyet Ria - Adelaide

Ayam penyet, literally "smashed chicken," is the dish that built an international chain out of a single hawker stall, and Adelaide's branch of Ayam Penyet Ria is the latest place in Australia to serve it. The restaurant opened at 12 Pirie Street in the Adelaide CBD in 2025, bringing a brand that began decades ago in Indonesia under its founder, known to customers as Ibu Ruth, who built the business from a small roadside stall into a chain now counting roughly seventy five locations across several countries, nine of them in Australia.

The signature dish presses a piece of fried chicken under a mortar and pestle until it flattens and its crust cracks apart, then serves it with fried tofu and a spoonful of sambal, with extra chilli or a peanut sauce offered on the side for those who want it milder. Alongside it, the kitchen cooks an elevated version of nasi goreng, fried rice topped with beef ribs cooked until they fall off the bone and a sunny side up egg, and iga penyet, beef ribs given the same smashing treatment as the chicken and served with tofu and tempeh. The wider menu runs to crispy fried duck, chicken satay and a curry platter where diners choose their own combination, with durian among the drinks on offer for those who want the fruit in liquid form rather than whole.

Local coverage of the opening described queues forming soon after the doors opened, a response the restaurant's own publicity attributes to its refusal to tone down the spice level or simplify the flavours for an unfamiliar audience, a formula that has carried the Ibu Ruth name from its original stall to outlets across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and now South Australia. The restaurant is open daily from 11 in the morning until 9 at night and can be reached by phone during those hours.

Address

12 Pirie Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Opening hours

Daily: 11:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Contact

Phone: +61 405 601 593

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