We admire how Merrow takes the extra effort to make its own pasta in variations like spinach fettuccine and tomato spaghetti. And we appreciate that the price of nearly every plate is kept south of RM20. But the pasta here begs to be saved from suffocating sauces like the wafu mentai (RM19.80 with three large prawns) and the synthetically sweet tomato and herbs (RM18.80 with crab sticks).

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Chicken-stuffed ravioli with sage butter sauce (RM12.80 as an appetiser) highlights the conditions to calibrate: Pasta needs to taste more unprocessed than this, buoyed by equally market-fresh meat, seafood and vegetables, with better-balanced herbs and spices. As it stands, Merrow currently works best if stomach-stuffing is your key criterion for pasta.

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Location & Details

Merrow Pasta

67, Jalan USJ 10/1A, Taipan Business Centre, Subang Jaya, Selangor.

Daily, 10am-10pm.

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