You Want Good Food, Come to Johor (my home state)......Even the Singaporeans Flocking the Eateries!!

You Want Good Food, Come to Johor (my home state)......Even the Singaporeans Flocking the Eateries!!


By Arshad Khan, Harakah Daily

Whatever happened to Malaysia's health inspectors and enforcement? Do such departments and their personnel still exist or have they absorbed into other departments with different roles?

Somehow, these departments really do not exist anymore for the last decade or so, otherwise how could the food outlets be allowed to operate under unhygienic conditions?

Pekan, Pahang is just one of the hundreds of towns all over the country with dirty eateries and zero enforcement. But other than being honoured with the country's top member of parliament as its representative, there is little else the residents here could be proud of.

Pekan is a small coastal town near the mouth of the Pahang river. There are some important features and dwellings but do not attract much tourists except those needing a journey’s break bound for the north from the south or the other way around.

This was supposed to be motorway but converted for food stalls

There are no food for the adventurous palates and cottage products are negligible. Treeless and hot, it has nothing to offer to outsiders.

Even the fact that the Prime Minister hails from Pekan has not made the place popular other than some ‘planned’ industries for livelihood of the voters. The indigenous people have been driven out of their natural habitat in the nearby forests and placed in ramshackles with nothing much to do for a decent living; theirs is a pathetic situation even though they are the real people of the land we live in.

What happened to their former forests? Your guess is as good as mine! Did someone scream "Timber!"?

Never flowing water in drains

In Pekan’s town centre we find garbage strewn almost behind every building, in the drains and alley ways. All over, the drains do not flow but remain stagnant with dark - at times pus-like, water heavily loaded with all sorts of garbage. Does this remind you of anything?

Yes, riverside dwellings where all the human activities one could think of are done daily. They are like the buffalo tied to a pole, grazing, does its business, and then sits down after a while for a rest or snooze!

Yes, that is how people should be compared. People who can think have choices whereas buffaloes cannot think like man and when they are tied, have no choice at all. Humans are not tied at a point but never learn.

Comments (5)...

written by NottyMaus, March 03, 2011 03:04:24

Oh, don't bother him now. He and sexy wifey are busy.

He is receiving his prestigious doctorate in law at MooNash Undi-versity; and the wife wiil be awarded Most Achieved Barbie Doll at MaleBorn U in Auzzieland. ..

written by eloofk, March 02, 2011 12:54:59

Well, well, well, the condition of Pekan constituency speaks well of the man who represent it. A person who is filthy, uncaring and abusive is what maketh the man.

Doesnt it reflects also on the constituents who voted him into parliament and propels him to become the Prime Minister??? ..

written by syd, March 02, 2011 11:35:47

Just across the river from the royal town of pekan, is a filthy malay village, with no drainage and sewers are just dropped into the filthy ground and makes its way by gravity.

The village sits to the north of pahang river mouth.

The stench is there nut i suppose you will get used to it if you live there.

The food court is equally filthy. It could be the malay enforcement oficers pity the stall holders, who just cannot afford to clean themselves and their place up, either due to ignorance, or just too dirt poor. ..

written by HamChak, March 02, 2011 10:51:19

Check all those Mamak Stalls.

They are F I L T H Y !

Only fit for those ParaihMaMak customers only.

They consume filthy food and their mind get filthy ideas.

Look at that BangsatPariahMaMakThief. ..

written by my oumrie, March 02, 2011 10:30:54

We have laws for everything in Malaysia, inherited from the British. Once Malay Muslims (law enforcers & law breakers) understand that Rasuah is HARAM, then and only then, will all laws will be adhered to or followed strictly.