Restoran How Yekee — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

📍 Date of Visit: Saturday, 22 June 2025 🕘 Time: Around 11:00 AM 🧾 Stall Involved: Pork Noodle Stall (staffed by a foreign worker) 👥 Persons Involved: Myself and my elderly father

I am extremely disappointed and disturbed by the appalling treatment my father and I experienced this morning at this hawker-style restaurant.

After ordering pork noodles for takeaway, my father and I sat down at a table inside the restaurant to wait for the food. There were only two chairs at the table, and we were clearly using it. After about 10–15 minutes, my father stood up to get himself a drink. The moment he got up, a foreign female worker from the pork noodle stall rushed over and forcefully took his seat — while I was still sitting there.

I told her that my father had only stepped away and would be back shortly, but she rudely claimed, “This is my table,” despite there being no “reserved” sign or indication of any kind. The table looked like every other table in the place — available for anyone.

I then approached the restaurant counter to find the person in charge. The two boys at the counter pointed me to their father, who was managing the mixed rice stall. When I explained what happened, he didn’t even attempt to listen or understand the situation. Instead, he cut me off mid-sentence and told me to “not make a scene” and to “go sit somewhere else.”

This response was deeply insulting and dismissive, especially considering we were the only Indian customers in the Chinese restaurant — and everyone around was watching. I was speaking clearly in English, but it felt like my presence and words were treated as a nuisance.

When I returned to the table, that same foreign worker was still sitting there, glaring at me up and down — and then she SPAT at me in disgust. That was the final straw. My father and I were stunned.

Only after that, the owner and his son came over again. The father continued telling us to calm down, but only then did the son ask me what actually happened. I explained again, and my father pointed out the shocking disrespect of being spat at. Only then did the father raise his voice and say the spitting was unacceptable.

I told the son again exactly what the worker had done, even demonstrating the spitting, and asked, “Would you be okay if someone did this to you or your family?” He finally apologised, but the damage was already done.

Even as we left the restaurant, the worker was still staring us down, full of attitude and zero remorse.

❗ What made this experience so awful was not just the shocking behaviour of the worker — but the completely dismissive, disrespectful and delayed response from the owner. If the roles were reversed, I highly doubt the response would have been the same.

No customer deserves to be treated this way. This incident was hurtful and a clear example of how some people are treated as lesser — not just because of what happened, but because of how it was handled.

I will never return here, and I urge others to think twice. This level of rudeness, discrimination, and lack of accountability is absolutely...

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