Miyos (several of them in Columbia now) is one of my favorite Chinese and Japanese restaurants in Columbia.

If you want a huge meal at a buffet, go down the street. If you want pretty good Chinese, there’s a few around. If you want the best Chinese, made with really fresh ingredients that’s always good, then stop at Miyos.

The dishes are always good. The sauces are rich and subtle, and the tempura is light and delicate.

This Miyos had a very modern look inside, and has a GREAT area to sit outside (covered).

Emailed to me from my mother:

I want to share with all of you our horrible experience at the new Miyo’s restaurant in Sandhill today (Mother’s Day). I was there with my daughter, Jessica, who has a lot of allergies. The OWNER of the restaurant was called over so that Jessica could ask her what the ingredients were of the sauces to determine which one she could eat. The OWNER told her the ingredients very hurriedly and then said, “You should not eat out in public if you have so many allergies. You should eat at home.” She was extremely rude and we were shocked!! The waiter apologized for the owner’s behavior and said that she acts like this often.

After we ate dinner (which wasn’t really very good anyway), I calmly walked up to the Owner and said to her, “You were extremely rude to my daughter, which was not necessary.” The Owner ignored my comment all together and kept writing. I said, “I see you don’t seem to even care that you were rude?” She then said basically that no she didn’t care. I then said that I will never be back again. At that point, the Owner looked at me and said, “Good, I don’t want you to come back to my restaurant.”

I was appalled. Jessica, my mother and I then started to walk out of the restaurant. The Owner purposely ran to the door to open it and told us not to come back and started yelling at us and followed us to the car even though we said we were done talking with her and didn’t want to talk with her any more. She continued to make a scene yelling at us until we got in the car.