Udon Koubou, SS15 Subang Jaya

When Ifirst told of  Udon Koubou I said ‘What? Udon Cowboy?’

And the people around me said almost in unison ‘No lah, Udon Koubou’

OK….so what’s this place all about? That was what I set out to discover.

Occupying 2 shop lots on SS15/4B is this restaurant that specialises in home made udon. A look at the pictures displayed prominently along the glass doors tells us what they serve –besides udon, that is. They have rice and tempura as well. Frankly choices are rather limited here.

The first thing I noticed as I walked in was that although the restaurant occupies 2 shop lots, there were not many tables in it. The second thing that caught my attention was the fact that many of the patrons were Japanese….and the kitchen crew (at least the one I saw) spoke limited English and was more conversant in Japanese. An important fact that I must highlight based on my observation today was that the restaurant was spotless –really clean!

The concept of this restaurant is such that you are given a menu (which wasn’t really necessary) –you make your selection- and then you place an order with the cashier and pay before you are served. You can then help yourself with hot water or normal plain water which is available at another counter. You have a choice of mugs or  plastic cups.

I ordered a plate of Japanese curry with rice (RM9.80). …hmmm…it looked really different from the picture displayed in the menu. Anyway, the portion was too tiny for me. With hardly anything in the curry except for pieces of potato and some carrots, it felt like daylight robbery. But one thing I must mention is that the taste was pretty alright.

This is known as Lunch set D (RM13.30) and it comes with a free drink –you have a choice of Coke, 100 Plus or green tea. With a very soggy prawn tempura on a bowl of udon,we decided to just forego the tempura. Potato salad was also included in this set. Well, the salad was superb –it was fresh and had chopped onion in it.

As the portions were small, we ordered another set known as Dinner Set A –photo below. For RM15, I would say there wasn’t much to eat -  a bowl of plain udon, a bowl of rice, some fried vege and a bowl of potato salad.

This is fried chicken (RM3.80) – the pieces of chicken were aromatic and we polished off  everything within seconds!

Address : 50, Jalan SS15/4B, Subang Jaya

Opens for lunch & dinner

Cash terms only