Nazri dismisses MCA’s criticism, says party irrelevant after last election
BY JENNIFER GOMEZ
Published: 3 August 2014
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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