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  • Chef Wan Buka Restoran Baru Di Esplanade Lepas Hari Raya

    Chef Wan Buka Restoran Baru Di Esplanade Lepas Hari Raya

    Cef selebriti dari Malaysia, Chef Wan, akan membuka sebuah restoran baru di Singapura – lebih tepat lagi di Esplanade! BERITAMediacorp diberitahu oleh cef terkenal itu, restoran tersebut akan diberi nama ‘Chef Wan’s Kitchen’.

    Bila restoran tersebut akan dibuka? Selepas Hari Raya Puasa nanti, dedah Chef Wan.

    Sebilangan orang mungkin akan terkejut dengan berita ini, kerana cef terkenal yang sebelum ini dikaitkan dengan restoran 1 Market by Chef Wan, baru ditutup pada Jun tahun lalu (2016). 1 Market pernah beroperasi di Plaza Singapura dan tutup kedai setelah tiga tahun setengah beroperasi.

    Namun demikian, beberapa minggu lepas, cef popular itu sempat memuatkan posting di Instagram rasmi beliau bahawa beliau sudahpun bersedia untuk kembali ke Singapura. Iaitu dengan satu usahasama yang baru bersama pelabur serta rakan kongsi perniagaan yang baru – dengan membuka sebuah restoran baru.

    Lokasi baru kali ini bertempat di Esplanade yang turut menempatkan beberapa restoran lain.

    CHEF WAN: ESPLANADE “LOKASINYA BAGUS”

    Baru-baru ini BERITAMediacorp menghubungi cef terkenal itu menerusi panggilan jarak jauh ke Kuala Lumpur untuk mendapatkan kepastian serta perincian dari beliau yang masih lagi sibuk menjalani sebuah rakaman program televisyen terkini beliau, berjudul Selera Rasa Seksa.

    “Saya memang inginkan mempunyai restoran di kawasan utama macam Esplanade. Lokasinya bagus. Saya tengok di situ ada pelancong asing tapi dari segi makanan halal, kurang. Lebih-lebih lagi makanan Melayu kita. Jadi saya terfikir mengapa tidak I buat restoran di situ,” cerita selebriti kelahiran Singapura itu yang nama sebenarnya ialah Redzuawan Ismail.


    Secara kebetulan, pelabur dan rakan kongsi baru beliau memaklumkan kepadanya tentang restoran mereka yang “tidak menjadi” dan terpaksa ditutup.

    Mereka jugalah yang menyarankan kepada Chef Wan untuk sama-sama membuka restoran yang diberi nama Chef Wan’s Kitchen, di Esplanade.

    Cuma buat masa sekarang ini, beliau belum bersedia untuk berkongsi identiti pelabur serta rakan kongsi terbarunya untuk restoran di Esplanade.

    “Saya tak gemar menyebut mereka itu orang Cina atau Melayu ke. Mereka lebih senang untuk tidak dikenali. Mereka banyak pengalaman sebab memiliki banyak restoran di Singapura. I tengok dari pengalaman mereka dan I cakap oklah kita cuba sama-sama,” jelas Chef Wan, yang bakal berusia 60 tahun pada tahun depan.

    CHEF WAN’S KITCHEN, RESTORAN “LEBIH KECIK”

    Bezanya kali ini, Chef Wan menjadi rakan kongsi untuk restoran yang dijangkakan beroperasi selepas Syawal. Selain itu, terdapat juga ura-ura untuk perniagaan mereka dikembangkan lagi.

    Mengapa pula Chef Wan memilih untuk menjadi rakan kongsi kali ini dengan pembukaan Chef Wan’s Kitchen nanti? Sedangkan, bagi restoran 1 Market beliau setakat ‘meminjamkan’ nama sahaja.

    “I rasa restoran lebih kecik senanglah nak uruskan. Tak macam dulu restoran itu besar. Mengapa tidakkan?” terangnya ringkas.

    Restoran yang boleh menampung seramai 100-120 pelanggan itu bakal menyajikan pelbagai menu ala carte, tidak seperti sajian buffet di restoran lama itu.

    Menjadi rakan kongsi kali ini padanya memudahkan beliau untuk “mempunyai suara” dan membenarkan beliau membuat keputusan juga dalam pengurusan restoran tersebut nanti.

    MENU MAKANAN BAGAIMANA DI RESTORAN BARU NANTI?

    Menu yang bakal disajikan akan turut merangkumi masakan-masakan yang beliau tampilkan untuk buku-buku masak beliau. Antaranya, ‘400 Resipi Terbaik Chef Wan’, ‘The Best of Chef Wan: A Taste of Malaysia’.

    Beliau sempat berseloroh: “Ada dari buku masak kita, apa yang you tengok kat tv, kita masak macam tu, kalau sedap, sedaplah.”

    Chef Wan tidak menafikan setiap perniagaan pasti ada risikonya. Kekadang, menu yang disajikan tidak sesuai. Makanya beliau mengambil pendekatan ‘trial and error’ untuk Chef Wan’s Kitchen di Singapura nanti.

    Beliau sendiri yang akan turun padang untuk melatih kesemua cef yang akan menjadi tenaga kerja restoran tersebut. Seperti sebelum ini juga, Chef Wan menambah beliau akan turut berada di restoran tersebut untuk menemui peminat-peminatnya yang bertandang ke restoran untuk menjamu selera.

    Yang penting, perniagaan di lokasi yang baru itu dijangkakan lebih mencabar disebabkan restoran itu bukan sahaja harus bersaing dengan restoran-restoran hebat lain yang sedia ada di Esplanade. Chef Wan juga menaruh harapan, restoran barunya itu akan dapat menarik perhatian pengunjung-pengunjung asing yang ke Esplanade, selain daripada para pelanggan Melayu.


    (Gambar-gambar: Chef Wan)

    TIDAK SERIK LAGI TERBABIT DENGAN RESTORAN?

    Beliau sebelum ini marah dengan apa yang berlaku dengan pihak pengurusan restoran 1 Market. Jadi, tidakkah Chef Wan berasa serik untuk membuka lagi restoran di Singapura?

    “Eh takdelah, merepek saja. Meniaga tak boleh serik. Kalau serik, kita tak meniaga,” kata beliau kepada BERITAMediacorp.

    “Dalam dunia perniagaan, sentiasa ada jatuh bangun kan? Kekadang dari kesilapan yang lalu tu buat kita lebih prihatin dan boleh hasilkan keputusan lebih baik lagi InsyaAllah,” tambahnya lagi penuh yakin.

    Yang pasti, para penggemar makanan di Singapura ini tidak sabar menantikan kemunculan Chef Wan’s Kitchen untuk ‘berasap’.

  • Khan Osman Sulaiman: Reserved Elected Presidency Is Fundamentally Flawed

    Khan Osman Sulaiman: Reserved Elected Presidency Is Fundamentally Flawed

    Im not that fired up on the upcoming Presidential Election. I know some of my friends are grateful that we now can have a Malay President after 50 years. We now can see photos of a Malay President and a Malay First Lady in every government buildings.

    Let’s not miss the forest for the trees.

    There are fundamental issues that need to be addressed with regards to reserving the presidential election for Malay candidates.

    1. This gov has put out of reach the aspirations of Singaporeans from being the president. It has implemented some strict conditions where most probably only the top 1% of the population is eligible, perpetuating an elitist society

    2. It has made changes to the President’s role that there is not much the president can decide on its own discretion. Council of Presidential Advisers (CPA) can override the President. Parliament can override the President. President to consult CPA. In the end, the President is a ‘lame-duck’

    3. Reserving this presidential election for Malay candidates posed a few problems. It gives out the notion that the Malays cannot stand on its own merits and win the election fair and square.

    It is condescending and reek of tokenism when at the same breadth, minorities are not allowed to assume the position of Prime Minister

    4. It goes against the grain of meritocracy. It places the Malay community as a pawn in a chess game. To be used only when needed.

    If the above points cannot be seen by those rejoicing for joy on the prospect of getting a Malay President, then as a whole, we deserve to be minions.

     

    Source: Khan Osman Sulaiman

  • Customers Should Stop Complaining About Price Of Bazaar Food

    Customers Should Stop Complaining About Price Of Bazaar Food

    People who complaint about prices in bazaar that are actually standard. Do you guys even think that we have rentals to pay , we have our costings to pay , we have workers to pay , we have water to pay , we have electricity to pay.

    You should try open a stall next year and see if you can sell ur product as low as possible with high rental of 15k and above.

    Thank you for reading and please for “that” person who complaint please throw away that hatred to people who are trying to earn for a living.

    Orang meniaga bukan menipu.

    #SILATERASA

     

    Source: Ali Najib

  • Rishi Budhrani: Dismissing Shrey Bhagarva’s Point Only Proves Him Right

    Rishi Budhrani: Dismissing Shrey Bhagarva’s Point Only Proves Him Right

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    Producer: So Rishi, we wanna cast you in a comedy sketch about a modern-day entrepreneur.

    Me: Ok, interesting. Tell me more.

    P: So, the business idea is that he sells
    nuts.

    Me: Nuts?

    P: Yea, like peanuts, groundnuts, some
    Sugar-coated chickpeas etc.

    Me: Ok.

    P: And, he goes into the heartlands to sell these.

    Me: Ok.

    P: And he keeps moving from block to block selling these nuts.

    Me: Keeps moving?

    P: Yea, cos he sells the products out of a pushcart mah.

    Me: Ok.

    P: And as people go around, he calls out to them to asks them to buy his nuts.

    Me: So, he sells peanuts out of a push cart, and calls out to customers to buy his peanuts?

    P: Ya ya ya!

    Me: Are you asking me to play a kacang putih man?

    P: YAA!! It’s damn funny hor!!

    ——–

    The issue of minority typecasting is prevalent in showbiz all over the world.

    Prevalent does not mean correct.
    Is it with malicious racial intent?
    Perhaps not.
    Is it borne out of ignorance?
    Perhaps.
    Is that an excuse? Definitely not.
    Is it a reality? Most definitely.

    I’ve discussed this issue openly on stage and online, and I’m sure most actors who do comedy, like Haresh Tilani from SG and Vivek Mahbubani from HK, have addressed it in some way or the other. But since it’s done through comedy, maybe people find it easier to digest these perspectives, OR maybe since it’s part of a comedy routine, they take it less seriously.

    From his posts about this event, it seems like it was an epiphany for the actor, and probably an important one, that as actors, we all have a threshold and there are some roles you won’t do cos it doesn’t agree with your beliefs/principles and you feel that performing the character does more harm than good to yourself and your community. And It sounds like he has found that clarity of truth and choice, which are not just cornerstones of playing convincing characters, they are also the building blocks of being a human being.

    An actor from a minority group in Singapore shared his discomfort and discontent about an audition and more importantly, if we can all pay attention, the state of affairs of minority representation in the media in Singapore.

    Agree with him, or disagree with him, but please, let’s not vilify him or digress from
    the issue he has raised by personally attacking him.

    By doing any of those two things, we are doing nothing but proving the point- that the voice of the minority, whichever accent it may be in, will be drowned out if it’s not in agreement with the majority.

    ———

    Me: Are you asking me to play a kacang putih man?

    P: YAA!! It’s damn funny hor!!

    Me: An Indian Kacang Putih seller as a stock character would’ve been hilarious in 1985.
    But it’s not anymore. Cos it’s 2017.

     

    Source: Rishi Budhrani

  • Good News For Malay/Muslim Community – Yaacob Ibrahim Confirms Not Contesting Reserved EP

    Good News For Malay/Muslim Community – Yaacob Ibrahim Confirms Not Contesting Reserved EP

    Aspiring candidates for the presidential election have to see the office not as a job but as a calling, Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim said on Thursday (June 1).

    They must also be able to reach out to all Singaporeans, and uphold multiracialism, he said.

    “Whoever is willing to step forward to take on the job must continue to carry the ethos of multiracialism, which is important,” Dr Yaacob said. “He or she must continue to do their best to rally all Singaporeans, not just the Malay community.”

    Dr Yaacob, who is Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, was speaking to reporters at the inaugural madrasah student awards ceremony.

    He also reiterated that he was not interested in running for the presidency, a point he made in an interview with Malay daily Berita Harian that was published in January this year.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

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