Nazri dismisses MCA’s criticism, says party irrelevant after last election

Nazri dismisses MCA’s criticism, says party irrelevant after last election

BY JENNIFER GOMEZ

Published: 3 August 2014

Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz dismisses MCA's criticism of his stance over Penang hawker food and who should be cooking it, as coming from a party that's lost its direction and become irrelevant after the last general election. – August 3, 2014 TMI pic, August 3, 2014.Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz has brushed off MCA's criticism of him for supporting a Penang government plan to ban foreigners from being hired to cook Penang street food, saying that the party and its views had become irrelevant after the last general election.

The Tourism and Culture Minister said he was puzzled over MCA's push to allow foreigners to cook hawker fare, arguing instead that the party should be more concerned about employment of locals.

"I don't care about what they have to say. I only care about preserving the taste of local hawker food.


"To me, you cannot ask a Bangladeshi to cook Chinese food and expect it to taste just as good because his taste buds would be different from locals," Nazri said.



As such, the minister said he supported Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's idea despite the chief minister being a political foe, adding that his main concern was attracting tourists to Malaysia.

"To me, Lim Guan Eng is right in this matter because my concern is tourists coming to Malaysia.

"Penang hawker food is famous," he said.

His comments come in the wake of remarks by MCA youth wing secretary-general Leong Kim Soon, who took the tourism minister to task over his support of Lim's plan to bar foreigners from cooking street fare.

MCA had said that Nazri's endorsement gave the impression that Putrajaya was agreeable with the idea.

Nazri told The Malaysian Insider that he did not care about what MCA had to say, especially since the party was no longer relevant having been rejected by voters in the 13th general election.

Nazri also questioned why MCA was politicising the issue, and hit out at the party for being overly concerned about employment of foreigners instead of locals.

"Why are they so bothered about foreigners being employed? see more at :
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/nazri-dismisses-mcas-criticism-says-party-irrelevant-after-last-election

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