Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the three further offences are pertaining to food handlers, anti-pest rules and failing to register with the health ministry as a food outlet.

“We are looking at this case seriously.

“We would like to advise the public to not eat at unhygienic premises,” he said in a statement today.

Hisham said the three notices were issued under Section 32B of the Food Act 1983.

This section empowers the Health Department to drag the restaurant operator to court to face charges for offences under the act.

Yesterday, a video showing the restaurant’s workers washing used plates by rinsing them in a pothole filled with kitchen waste went viral.

Authorities from City Hall, Health Department and the human resources ministry descended on the outlet this morning. The outlet was already closed when the officers arrived.

The restaurant operator had issued an apology on Facebook, saying the workers were newly-hired and promised to ensure the incident would not happen again.

Meanwhile, national shuttler Lee Chong Wei has denied a viral social media message that he is a co-owner of the banana leaf restaurant.

A company search with the Companies Commission of Malaysia revealed Lee as one of the three directors of the company which owns the restaurant.

In a Facebook posting Wednesday, the restaurant clarified that Lee was not linked to the restaurant.

“While we acknowledge that Datuk Lee Chong Wei was previously a director of the company, he had resigned from his directorship prior to the said incident and he was in any event not involved in the day-to-day operations of our restaurants,” it stated.

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