KUALA LUMPUR (June 7): Keep it clean, boys. And we are talking about food cleanliness here.

Raj's Banana Leaf restaurant was shut down by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) for hygiene violations recently after a video showing its workers washing dishes in murky water on the road went viral on social media.

The Star’s Metro News reported that while the Jalan Telawi restaurant was still closed, up to 30 workers were seen attending food handling courses inside.

The course was conducted by the Malaysian Association of Environmental Health.

A DBKL Health and Environment Department officer was also seen taking photographs while the lesson was going on.

“It is the last measure the restaurant management has to undertake before we carry out another inspection soon,” the officer told Metro News.

“I was told by the restaurant manager that the workers had also been given typhoid jabs.”

“I am also here to check on the upgrading work of the exhaust ventilation system, sink, grease trap and backlane,” he said.

Kuala Lumpur Mayor Tan Sri Mohd Amin Nordin Abd Aziz yesterday said he is “pushing” for the restaurant’s licence to be revoked.

Amin Nordin “wants the place shut down permanently to send a strong message to all eateries in the Kuala Lumpur”.

“I want to send a strong message to everyone that this is unacceptable.

“We have been too kind, and that’s why we have all this bad practices. This type of news is giving the city a bad name.”

In a crackdown of dirty restaurants by the authorities, two eateries were shut down by the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) yesterday afternoon.

The two restaurants in the cross hairs of MBPJ were Face to Face Noodle House and S One One restaurant in Dataran Ara Damansara.

On Tuesday, Raju, Restoran Gasing and Sri Paandi located in the same row along Jalan Chantek 5/13, Seksyen 5 Petaling Jaya were made to close by MBPJ for being dirty.