Golden Bowl in Drogheda

25/05/2025: First time to get food from Mala. I was hoping to be impressed. Unfortunately, I wasn't. The overall experience was OK. The dishes lacked depth of flavour and missing umami in most dishes. The udon noodle dish was very one dimensional. Same for most of the other dishes. The chicken in each dish again was very bland and lacked that umami flavour. I never order boiled rice from a Chinese takeaway style because it's usually stoggy, overcooked and flavourless. I saw on the menu they had boiled Jasmine rice, which is a nice option and so I went with that. What I got was NOT Jasmine rice but th usual low quality, stoggy, bland rice. I asked for Extra EXTRA spicy and I got mild. To be fair they did put a lot of fresh chillies in but these weren't very spicy either. The delivery arrived in a very fancy bag, with fancy food containers. Personally I would prefer the kitchen to put the extra money, effort and time into their ingredients, sauces and overall dishes, rather than frills which add nothing to the food and thats what you should want....the food to spot on. Overall, nothing exciting or enticing to return. They seem to be afraid to be aggressive with their flavours and that for me is what's missing from most restaurants/takeaways.