Minister Kulasegaran has been attacked on the Net because of his proposal to limit restaurant chefs to locals.
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Some of the protests or complaints were outside the scope of his proposal which touches only on chefs and not servers. But some of those Net-whingers are nonsensically saying locals refuse to serve for more than 2 days etc etc etc, and thus the minister had been unreasonable.
Well Kula, fCk those irrelevant complainants.
In Penang, the ruling of locals as chefs of heritage hawker food has taken effect beautifully so Kulasegaran should seek inspiration and strength from Penang's success - see NST's Penang hawkers share 'locals only cook' policy experience. Extracts of article follow:
Since the ban, the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) has revoked 17 operating licences of hawkers on the island.
Well Kula, fCk those irrelevant complainants.
In Penang, the ruling of locals as chefs of heritage hawker food has taken effect beautifully so Kulasegaran should seek inspiration and strength from Penang's success - see NST's Penang hawkers share 'locals only cook' policy experience. Extracts of article follow:
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Mayor Yew Tung Seang |
Its mayor, Yew Tung Seang said MBPP would not compromise on the matter as ample time had been given to hawkers to prepare themselves for the change.
“We have to take enforcement action. Close monitoring is ongoing every now and then since 2016,” he said.
Yew said the policy, however, was only applicable to 13 types of local street food.
“We will continue our efforts to ensure the food are fully prepared by Malaysians for the ardent local food hunters,” he said.
The 13 local food covered under the policy are; nasi lemak, asam laksa, pasembor, mee sotong, char koay teow, koay teow soup, hokkien mee, curry mee, wan tan mee, loh bak, chee cheong fun, char koay kak and oh chien.
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“We have to take enforcement action. Close monitoring is ongoing every now and then since 2016,” he said.
Yew said the policy, however, was only applicable to 13 types of local street food.
“We will continue our efforts to ensure the food are fully prepared by Malaysians for the ardent local food hunters,” he said.
The 13 local food covered under the policy are; nasi lemak, asam laksa, pasembor, mee sotong, char koay teow, koay teow soup, hokkien mee, curry mee, wan tan mee, loh bak, chee cheong fun, char koay kak and oh chien.
