She was serving herself raw meat at a hotpot buffet inside a Kuala Lumpur mall when something moved among the cuts.

The customer, a Threads user, froze when she noticed they were baby cockroaches crawling over the tray of meat. She shared the moment with a mixture of disgust and outrage, and the post quickly went viral among Malaysian diners demanding answers.

Kuala Lumpur City Hall, through its Sanitation Unit in Titiwangsa, visited the restaurant to inspect the kitchen. They did not find an isolated case: they discovered more cockroaches inside a bottle of oil and hiding in the refrigerator door. Based on this evidence, they ordered the restaurant to close from August 26 to September 9 under the health regulations in force in the city. The establishment, until then one of the most visited in the shopping center, remained closed while it dealt with the infestation.

