Mitsuyado Seimen - Tsukemen ミツ矢堂製麺 @ The Starling — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

Review from June 2023: Thinking of tsukemen after our recent Tokyo trip... So today we went to Starling Mall's Mitsuyado Malaysia which we haven't been for quite some time (about a year), and we are surprised that their menu has expanded so much!

My friend at Tokyo, recommended the Chicken Broth Tsukemen last time from the Mitsuyado Tokyo's branch. So I am glad to see it's now available in Malaysia and also with promo price now (for weekdays)! Of course, I ordered it and it's yummy because it's lite and has a good yuzu taste to the chicken shoyu broth. I always choose the "Cold" noodles so it feels more chewy~

It's non-halal though because the place serves pork and the yuzu oil contains non-halal ingredient. I also ordered the extra side dish of Chicken Kaarage with my set - the chicken pieces are big and juicy with thin layer of crispy batter... tasty!

We also had the Karashi tsukemen which is nice too but not very spicy so we had to add more chili powder and chili oil, kindly provided by the restaurant. To top things off, we also got a spicy boiled gyoza which is good and a small bowl of Cheese and Taco sauce rice with egg... but I won't recommend this because it doesn't fit in with the Japanese food we are having, it's like I am in a complete different restaurant eating a different kind of food. It's still good but I wouldn't order this next time unless I really want a taste of non-Japanese food.

Staff at Starling Mall were nice and very efficient with refilling our iced green tea too.

Review from August 2023: We went to try the Volcano tsukemen, it's tasty but very spicy!! A good type of spicy but please only attempt if you can take very spicy food. It comes with whipped egg white on top which looks very unique and probably 'cool' the...

Today was my second bad experience with the restaurant. I had a bowl of white rice that I was feeding my child. I used a clean spoon to move the food to her children container for her to eat.

While I went thru half way with the rice, I have found sauce stains. It means it was a recycle rice from other dishes. There was no way we would have sauce as our dishes was only fried chicken.

I had to throw everything away and stop feeding my child. Hopefully she is not going to catch sickness or virus from it.

The restaurant says it was burnt rice which was ridiculous as it was soft with sauce. Such disgusting hygiene the restaurant fails to know the importance.

Last time I have caught the chef smoking outdoor without washing up before preparing food.

I am never going to this restaurant again. Please check your food when you eat and be careful.

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It is relieved to hear that your restaurant don’t recycle rice.

However I am sure it was a sauce with rice and not anything burnt which it is not the first bowl of rice for me to different shade. It was definitely sauce as it was soft with stains to the next rice when I move it.

Please kindly check Next time before serving to ensure something like this doesn’t leave an unpleasant experience and ensure your staff come forward to explain in details when someone ask.

Customers doesn’t find time to complain or review for nothing that is not meaningful and please provide a phone to the right person next time to call for something as this as well.

As we were so worried sick that we would caught something...

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