Compiled by C.ARUNO, OON JUN-YANG and R. ARAVINTHAN
ALTHOUGH the town of Langkap in Perak is known to be a sleepy hollow, a restaurant owner there has been making up to RM18,000 monthly in pizza sales, Kosmo! reported.
Pizzalicious Langkap restaurant owner Mohammad Syamim Rosli, 34, said he offers over 16 pizza varieties.
“I want everyone, including those from the B40 group, to be able to enjoy premium pizza at affordable prices.
“The RM6 small-sized pizza is the most popular choice. I have sold 400 boxes in a single day,” he was quoted as saying at his restaurant in Taman Mawar.
Syamim, who has been in business for about five years, said he initially had concerns if the restaurant would be successful.
“But the response from teachers, childcare centres and kindergartens was very encouraging, and I also received orders for wedding feasts,” he said, adding that he also offered platter sets of Western and Korean delicacies.
> Pahang gendang ketawak maker Mohd Don Abd Rahman said producing the traditional drum was becoming challenging with wood, rattan and goat skin, which are essential raw material becoming increasingly difficult to source, Utusan Malaysia reported.
Mohd Don said that the hollowed wood known as baluh was fitted with dried animal skin and secured with rattan.
He lamented that he might have to give up drum making them if the scarcity of materials continue and public interest wanes.
“This heritage may die as the younger generation prefer all things digital” he said.
Despite these constraints, his handicraft is in demand throughout Pahang, Sabah and Johor, and has even been sent to a pencak silat (martial arts) organisation in the Netherlands.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
