Showing posts with label My Judgement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Judgement. Show all posts

Friday, 23 May 2025

37. Petrol Subsidy Removal Proposal for Malaysia

Proposal for oil subsidy restructuring in Malaysia.

1. Prevent people from buying petrol using cash. All purchase must be done via card. Traceable purchase. Only small purchase is allowed RM10 cash for motor bike.


2. Track each vehicle mileage meter. Whenever one renew his road tax, correlate their petrol purchase with mileage. Then charge accordingly depending on

a) Vehicle type

b) Mileage used

c) Petrol purchased

d) If there is a mismatched  called up for inquiry.


3. If high mileage, charged the excessive petrol purchased.

E.g. Yearly allocation per citizen is RM1200  or RM100 subsidy per month.

Petrol price different per liter RON95 vs RON97 : $1 per year. Monthly allocation of 100 liter.


4. Example, in 1 year, if petrol purchases is 1200 liter = 1200x 2.05 = RM2,406/=

Let said, Mr Ali used RM6000/- per year

RM6000 – 2,406 = RM3594

Total subsidy due = RM3594 / 2.05   = RM1753/- Due payable during road tax renewal.


5. Cross reference. RM6000/2.05 = 2927 liter.

Car petrol consumption is 15 km per liter.

2927 liter x 15 km/l  = 43,905 km

There should be extra 44,905 km in your vehicle meter. Vehicle meter tempering will be fine rm10,000/=.

Monday, 17 June 2024

36. Good Information Dissemination

 18th June 2024.

I used to write blog but there is not much traffic in my blog. People simply don't read. So, who will be my target customers. Well, the best will be my student and facebook friends.

After some time, I changed my strategy, I will post it 1st in my facebook account then later on I will repost it in my blog for archived purposes.  Every 1 week I should post something short and interesting and not personal. I think that is the maximum information dissemination/absorption capacity among my audience. After one week, the traffic will die off and time to repost in blog for archive purposed.  Having a blog may enable my audience to search through every idea I have posted here if they are interested.

I also found that articles forward to my facebook posting will not result in much traffic. Only self-written post got more view, like + comment. 

I assume since I not ah-sem, many audience may not be interested in the places I went etc...(unless it is a new place etc). I would prefer to talk about something that my article can be translated into action among my readers. 

 




Monday, 17 April 2023

32. Private Medical Insurance Proposal.

This is just a suggestion for future medical care in Malaysia.

User: Normal People who work/stay in the same region for example Klang Valley.

Insurance Companies : Local Universities with Medical Degree Program with a running hospital. (UKM, UM, UIA, UiTM etc).

Banker/regulatory body: An institution which withheld the fund paid by policy holder on behalf of the universities. This body responsibility is to slowly disburse fund to local universities as many universities are inexperience in handling fund and can easily run out of $$.

Each user upon it’s first employment he can buy a long term insurance policy from one of the local universities. This fund will be slowly disbursed to the universities as operational expenses and future development.

First before the user is admitted for a long term insurance policy, the local universities will do a health check and analysis on the user.  Base on the user lifestyle, a premium value is calculated and the users are admitted to the insurance policy. Any big health issues with the policy holders, it is the local university medical faculty responsibility. There is no hassle in checking insurance company. Just come and you ‘ll be served.

Transparency, a statistics of number of doctors, specialist for each area, medical facilities and other resources are identified, published and they are bind to the policy holder. Policy holder will be served first instead of non-policy holder.

Policy Holder trading.

Let say Mr Charlie move from KL to Kota Bharu. He can change his policy from UM to USM hospital. The will be a small handling fee and if Mr Charlie lifestyle is extremely bad, USM hold the right not to accept Mr Charlie policy.

Let say Mr Alex who currently a policy holder from UM, he is not happy with the service. He can switch to UKM.

Towards a healthier society.

The university is incentified to implement a healthy lifestyle program among its policy holders to minimize their future health expenditure and yet collect the same amount of premium. More focus will be done on prevention side. Thus, a lot of health problem will be eliminated.

There is a lot of unclear issue to address. Thus, a new company should be formed consisting of local universities medical faculty team, medical testing facilities company such as BPLab, insurance companies and banker. This will facilitate the move to a healthier society at a more affordable price. It must be regional for example Klang Valley only. It should not be nation-wide like “National Health Care System” which bound to be failure.


Direct feedback. Shorten the feedback cycle and you will see a more sensible result/action.

Example: for dental care.

The maximum age for dental patient new policy holder is 25 year old. The policy is renewable up to age 70. An annual fee of RM200-300/- is required. Inflation price will be added yearly.

Coverage: Dental filling, yearly dental check-up. For every 10 years, 1 crown, 1 root canal treatment.

Term: Good behaviour such as daily brush teeth, not eating hard food.

Non-coverage: accident, teeth implant.

If this policy is done early, many people don’t need root canal treatment.

In Summary, ”old time local dentist guarantee”, if you come here every time, I guarantee you no need root canal for the rest of your life.

 

 

Sunday, 16 April 2023

31. Future Local University Funding.

There are many things happen due to system design failure. The reward structure is unclear and most of the time, government policy is very forgiving for public universities. Thus, I propose the following.

1.      A fraction of the university funding will be coming from their own student future tax revenue. All students graduated with a funded degree/undergraduate program from a public university will pay taxes to their university for 10-20 years. I strongly believe Master and PhD by research program, the fee should be minimal unless a lot of research facilities are required.

2.      The annual tax return from these students will be channeled 100% to the local university.

3.      The university staff salary/pension will be paid from the fund received.

4.      University are free to set their quota system and course offering

5.      The fraction of university funding from government will be slowly reduced and the funding from student tax return will be gradually increased up to 30-50% of the university revenue.

6.      If there is insufficient fund, the university will have to reduce their staff salary and benefit.

Whatever big financial decision made by the university management must be recorded (who suggested this, who approved it). Later on, anything wrong there will be penalty/reward on the pension side. Then, the university will make a wiser economic decision rather than a political one.

30. Local Public Universities. Please publish your account (P&L, Balance Sheet).

There should be an allocation of up to 5% for transparency ranking for all university.  Many public universities receive a lot of grant from their government. Yet, very few of them publish their balance sheet information to the public. The general public need to know how public universities spend their money. Without this information, it may be difficult for the public to judge any action taken by the university such as raising student fees, reducing the number of student grant etc.

In Malaysia, as far as I know off, only University Malaya published their balance sheet information in their annual report.

https://www.um.edu.my/about-um/media-centre/annual-report

The rest of the public universities, these information is unknown to most people. If these information is published, the public can properly assess the ROI of government funding and any wrongdoing in each public university.  In stock market, the quarterly P&L statement and Balance Sheet information of a company provide the basis on whether one should buy or sell their stocks. These universities are given massive funding every year, why can’t we see their accounts.

All these while, what the public talks about quota system, bad facilities, mismatch education and industry need. Publish the account then we can see lot of things to improve.

Monday, 9 January 2023

26. Rule for tasty Meat.

 During a hike, I was told by a hiker that her husband is operating a chicken/pig roasted shop somewhere in Cheras. Ok friend2 must support mah. so I paid him a visit. His roasted pork is nice. Thus, we have a chat. "How do you compare big restaurant chicken/pork/duck compared to coffee shop stall?"

Well, the first rule is the meat cannot be frozen, once slaughter it must cook within 24-48 hours depending on availability of cold storage (2-4 degree celcius Lowest temperature before frozen). Cook once, finish selling it within 1 day and tomorrow start over again. Once frozen, it will be less tasty. Thus, big restaurant (other than specialized chicken/pig/duck rice shop) cannot beat coffee-shop chicken rice stall if the stall operator operated professionally. So, the chicken rice stall operator will have to go to the market every morning 4am to get their chicken. On top of that, they are not greedy, roughly they have an idea how many chicken will sell and have a near zero-waste policy. He then told me about the process used by big restaurant to deliver chicken for their customer. After I heard it, I think it is best to eat from nice/reputable chicken/pig/duck rice from coffee shop or specialized chicken rice shop.

The conversation roughly ended here. Below is my own writing!

What a self-cooked househusband and wife can do? If you want fresh tasty food, go to market every day! Some markets sell live chicken and slaughter on the spot. If you can get that, once slaughter, go and cook your soup, chicken whatsoever. Your taste is one grade above. There used to be a chicken stall selling buy to slaughter chicken and duck in Dengkil  town (behind the mosque). However, the land owner has taken back the land. The seller ended up selling frozen chicken instead.

What regulator and market maker can do? Announce publicly or inform suppliers the slaughter time-table for your chicken, pig and duck. Those house husband/wife, coffee shop stall operator may be very keen to know it so that they can time their action to get a constant fresh supply of meat.

2nd: Argument, method of slaughter. IKEJIME.

The Japanese has a method to slaughter a fish to maintain it freshness and taste. I was surprised that it is rarely practise in Malaysia despite many of the fishes are quite expensive.  

You can view the video from here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVxjjxQkoE

Generally, the process is to kill the fish quickly by damaging the brain. If the fish dying slowly, it will release some chemical that may spoilt the fish tasty. Then, it is followed by draining most of the blood from the fish. The less blood in the fish, the better the fish will taste and it can be stored longer in frezzer. Can we have the process for pig, chicken, duck etc.

 

3rd: Poultry operator.

Well, we have many poultry operators in Malaysia. They have the first hand control over the production of chicken and eggs. How come, I never heard of any high end restaurant that is linked to any poultry owner. As a large poultry owner, you have end to end control over what breed to breed, what food to give to your chickens, ducks, pigs. What you miss out the last part “high end restaurant” which give you the best profit margin.

Generally, it is like this

a)      Select a chicken/duck/pig breed based on high end market demand

b)     Select special food for the chicken/duck/pig

c)      Optimize your slaughter process.

d)     Deliver it to customer.

OKlah! Let end here! I talk enuf! Don’t know whether got any reader! If got also dunno got action or not.

25. Food Reasoning. How Nice is Self-Barbeque meat?

     Most of you might have tasted Roasted Pig or Roasted Duck. This is a popular dish for Chinese. I wonder how long it takes for someone to learn how to roast a duck, chicken or pig professionally. This come to my mind after a barbeque meal at local barbeque restaurant.  I am not a professional chef or a good food reviewer but I have something to say for you to make your own conclusion. Prior to the roasting process, the meat has to be marinated evenly with special sauce for a prolong period of time. Most of the time, the sauce may be a trade secret. The roasting process has to be precise, not too early (uncooked meat), not too long (meat get dried and harden). At the same time, the burning process has to be evenly distributed. Thus, it is a long learning process.

Now let do a 180 degree turn, you go to a barbeque shop and barbeque your own marinated meat. How do you know it is fully cooked or over cooked or evenly cooked or evenly marinated. How tasty can it be? Can U beat those professional. The only advantage you have is your meat is hot and freshly cooked or perhaps nice friends + leng lui around. If there is a special sauce in the barbeque why don't the restaurant make their own roasted meat, fish, seafood etc. Thus my conclusion, 99% of time self-barbeque cannot beat those professional. I will go for self-barbeque mainly for fun and tasty food maybe secondary. If I want to eat nice barbeque I will go for those professional who will marinate, barbeque for me. E.g. “Ikan Bakar restaurant”, “Roasted Duck restaurant”, “roasted pig restaurant” etc. I will not go for self-barbeque restaurant.

Tuesday, 1 November 2022

24. The Logic of Taking Many2 Photos

 With the widespread of handphone camera, the amount of photos taken in your lifetime had exceeded your own mental ability to appreciate it. This, is worsen among those photo fanatics especially those aunty, leng moi and many others. For each site angle, there are more than 5 photos that need to be taken.

Let break down it into component

1.      Time taken to shoot the photo: T1

2.      Time taken to process the photo: Upload to PC, Facebook etc : T2

3.      Time taken to enjoy and look back at the taken photo:  T3

T3/(T1+T2+T3) ==รจ approaching zero.

In a holiday, weekend trip, you probably have taken 50 photos for your trip.

IN one year, if you have gone through 20 trips there are 1000 photos. Then, your friends will also take photos and shared it in the whatapps group/facebook. So all in, double your photos. So, you end up with 2000 photos a year. This is very conservative. Those fanatics, they will end up taking 300 photos per trip. So, the amount of photos in their PC is countless. On last record, I got 2400 photos for 2019. I rarely recalled each of them.

Yet, how often a photo is view again. Most likely many photos are taken and never to be seen again. Then what is the purpose of taking it at the first place. Thus, it is better to restrict the number of photo taken in each trip. Just take the key one at various checkpoint and move on. At the same time, do spend some time to watch back and rejoys on your old photos as you have made so much effort in snapping them.

 

However, there are some exception:

If U R a sexy model, handsome fellow, or influencer where there are many people view your photos, then more photos are better. For example, suppose your photo will be able to influence/help someone to go a specific place/buy specific item then more the better.

 

22. The Changing Trend in Amateur Sports : Running, Cycling, Hiking

 Back in 1980s, 1990s and perhaps early 2000s, people participate sports just for the joy of it. Most of them will be “Hangat2 tahi ayam” approach, where they will come on and off to train. They just come for the joy of it, because there are some company and nothing else.  However, recently I do see things are changing rapidly among those amateur sport takers.

Many of them take sports seriously, if they are in running, they are more than willing to go through a long challenge. Starting from 10km, over the years they will progress to marathon and some to trail running and ultra marathon.

In every distance, they come with a mind to set their personal best. Sub-5, Sub-4 marathon. Damn they take it competitively and seriously. They will come for training every week. They are more serious than you. Young, old, auntie, uncle, grand pa, grand mum they came for training and will certain train and run much faster than you.

The Chinese are more to running and Hiking. As far as cycling, some of the Chinese are a bit reluctant to fork out the capital$ to buy a road bike + accessories (which cost RM3 – 5K) and other are a bit fearful on the safety side of cycling. The malay they are more dominant in cycling. They have a higher willingness to spend $$ and willing to take more risk. On top of that, they like to be associated with an expensive road bike and fancy attire.

The number of cycling and running event have been on the rise so far. Every week there is a running event. Not only that, it is also expanded to Trail Running, Hiking Group etc. The number of event I think it is 3-5x more than what we have in year 2010. (10 years ago).

Even in badminton, people will go from matches to matches. Every year, each club will have 1-2 annual competition. With around 10 clubs, you will have at least 10 badminton competition to go for every year. Parent will be more than willing to send them for competition. In the end, those that came out strongly in every sports are those from sport groups. There are various running, hiking, cycling, badminton etc groups in Klang Valley. Each group are leaded by inspiring leaders who has a deep interest in their sports. Some goes to the extend to hire badminton coach to teach themselves in their 40s. The main purpose is to raise the level of their game so that they can keep up with others and have more fun.

 

Friday, 23 September 2022

18. ZI Wei Dou Shu A waste of time.

 It is a great waste of time studying something where the opportunity to apply it is limited. Many people are scared to disclose their date and time of birth (compulsory element in Zi Wei Dou Shu fortune telling calculation). Some scare that you’ll make witch craft (I bet even if I study 10 Phd I won’t be able to do it). Other simply felt it is a breach of their privacy. More than 50% will give a hypocrite answer or action, “Oh I don’t believe in fortune telling”, yet they did not disclose their details.

 So, you end up with a limited set of people who are willing to provide you with such data. Therefore, your ability to practice it is limited. Most of the time, it will be self-experimenting whether your own life calculation is right or not. One of the important things, is to have a brief characteristic of people behaviour especially those who you are dealing with frequently. Well, in this case, physiognomy (Facial fortune telling) will be a better option. Aiyah! Got to study again.

Sunday, 15 July 2018

7. Origin Point Medicine. 16th July 2018. (Posted Date).




 Written about one month back.16th July 2018



As I was listening to youtube in 2015-2016, I accidentally came across Origin Point medicine video. The speaker spoke about Alternative approaches to medicine in deep Mandarin language, which I can only understand 30% of the words, then one of my colleagues came into my room for lunch. What a co-incident? Oh, You also listen to this fellow arh? He is Dr. Zhang Chao Han. Etc. (forgotten what my colleagues mumble already). Since he is so energetic, there must be something behind it, so during the lunch carpool, I asked him about Dr. Zhang Chao Han’s story. In summary, what he told me was Dr. Zhang ‘s wife was diagnosed with cancer, he with full faith begin western medicine treatment for his wife, when western medicine failed, he begins to try on Chinese medicine, which also fail miserably, so he decided to find the source of his wife sickness and found origin point medicine The main thing that got me hooked was “The doctor said his wife only could live for 7 days, Dr. Zhang manages to extend her wife life by 7 months”. Had my colleague did not come into my room on that day, I may have a delay of 1-2 years in learning origin point medicine.



I think if you want to know more about Dr. Zhang Life's story, you can read the link below.

http://origin-point-medicine.org/dr-chang-chao-han-story-part-1/



So, since strong evidence was given to me on such good alternative treatment in medicine, I begin to search for all his lectures contained in 18-21 hours of length on Origin Point medicine. However, the lectures were in Mandarin, which I could only understand 30% of it. So, I managed to find a set of videos with the Chinese subtitle written in text. I then use the google translator website to translate each of the mandarin characters to English. Then while I listen to the video, I read the translated English texts. There my understanding improves till 60 – 70%.



This whole effort took me about 2-3 weeks of my time. I finally convinced about this approach and began to tell my love one. 90% of them do not believe me. Only 2-3%, believe in it and practice it, the 7% believe in it but do nothing about it.



Upon having learned about origin point medicine, I was slowly removing my dependencies on the Western drug. Antibiotics were the hardest things to remove, especially when I have a throat infection. I think it takes about one year to eradicate it. I think since 2016. I hardly take any western medicine at all except for probiotics and mineral supplements. Even if I got some minor infection, it would get resolved in 1-2 weeks without medication. If it gets bad, I will go for origin point treatment which consists of



a)    Drink hot stuff like concentrated ginger drink

b)      Apply ginger powder on a specific part of the body

c)       Body massage at a certain critical point in our body

d)      Heat treatment on body, neck

e)      Exercise

f)        Soak at Hot spring.

Initially, the English Training Classes for Origin Point Medicine was conducted by Brother Raymond Wong in 2016 with various Buddhist Society in Malaysia. I did attend the training. Later on, now there are English classes offered by the Origin Point Medicine Malaysia section.

For more information, you can refer to this website below.

http://malaysia.cchysd.org/



After learning this, no regret not taking any medical courses such as medicine, pharmacy, etcetera.

I have many relatives and friends. Many I already recommended Original Point Medicine to them. Since I am not RICH, my influence is limited, I already distributed CD and booklet to them back in 2016 FOC. For many of us, your influence level is dependent on how rich you are, what car you drive, where you stay, what profession you do. Well, I can count at least 5 of them already dead. One of them with a funny look at my face (with some lol in his heart), my son is a doctor he can take care of me, the last two years he passed away due to sickness. I give him the DVD he said the DVD  player is not working. Another friend, I told them, I seen many cancer cases in my relatives, all of them died once their cancer recurring. Why not try origin point medicine, well they did not listen and proceed with Chemotherapy. Then later, in 2018, one of them passed away.



So if I got cancer, I would not do CHEMO, I will stick with ORIGIN POINT MEDICINE. Well, I said enough, the rest is up to you.  ORIGIN POINT MEDICINE is something which you can learn, practice to live a healthy and fruitful life for yourself. If it is useful, share it out. Last but not least, I also told Alex KL Hiking about it in early 2018. He did attend the class in July 2018 at Kajang and said it OK and good. Well, if you knew him, you can ask him for confirmation. OK.

Sunday, 17 June 2018

5. How freshness affect taste?17th June 2018.


From a simple conversation with a noodle stall operator I come to know about this.
The owner operates a CURRY MEE stall, I asked him why he no longer provide cockle (kerang) in his mee. His said the supplier give him spoiled Cockle, his customer complaint so he no longer give cockle to his customer as he cannot guaranteed the freshness.

I thought he can always buy from the market, boiled, peel off the shell and remove the dirty and serve it fresh to his customer. He said better buy the “ready peel cockle” as less work is involved. Now I understand. The same applies to Chow Keow Tew noodles. So one of the benchmark for these noodles, is that the stall operator must buy cockles from the market, boiled, peel off the shell and remove the dirty and serve it fresh to his customer. It is difficult to gauge the amount of cockles needed in 1 day. Thus, sometimes you will get overnight or multi night cockles (refrigerated), well that affect quality. Well, that why sometimes it’s nice sometimes it not nice. The same applies to prawns.

Let me go to the extreme side, well if you want good tasty food, must spend a lot of time making your own ingredient. E.g. A noodle operator made their own noodle before serving it to their customer, Nasi lemak operator make their own sambal. Most operator will find out which is the best sambal supplier, best tasting sauces and get it from their supplier and start cooking. Where got time to make their own SAMBAL or Special sauces. Maybe some specialized shop do it.

How about PAU and Bread? Every coffee shop got PAU in a machine correct? How many days the pau are there? Well, some people make $$ by dedicating their effort in opening up, pau shops selling fresh pau. There is one in Sri Kembangan and Dengkil. The same applies to Bread, which is made daily. Well, the taste and quality should be better than what you get from the machine or supermarket. Agree. So if price does not differs that much I will get it from a pau shops.

How about fruits? Due to logistic and commercial reason, the fruits we eat is not riped when it was plucked, so that it can last longer. What we buy it from the supermarket and eat it ‘s taste is always one to two grade below the best.  I wish there is an orchard which sells road by the road side. All the fruits must ripe on the tree before it is served. E.g Banana, papaya, mango.

Let goes to one extreme, let said I am a millionaires, I want total food quality/taste control. So I buy a farm, rear my own organic chicken/pig/cow/lamb/goat/fish, control what their eats. Then I also grow the plants such as sawi, cucumber and taugee for  the chicken rice shop. Later, I open a shop which sell chicken rice where the chicken is supplied from my own farm. I have 100% end to end control over the taste and texture of my meat. I guess nobody have done that yet in Malaysia. I do hope someday someone will as Malaysia have sufficient land to implement such scheme. Pls don’t ask me to do it, spread the ideas surely someone will take it up one day. I do hope to go to such restaurant b4 I died. If u know one let me know ok.

Saturday, 9 June 2018

4. Chinese Food Industry: How the Taste is affected? 9th June 2018


“Kedai Kopi model”.
A big tenant rented/owned a big shop lot normally a corner lot for a big sum of money. In 2018, normally depending on area and floor size it could be anywhere between RM10,000 – RM50,000 per month in Klang Valley.

He then will sub-rent to each stall operator at RM30 - 50 per day cash term or RM1000/- per month depending on what kind of food is sold. Noodle normally cheaper RM700-RM800, Rice normally more expensive RM1000, mix rice RM1500 and also “Tai Chow” RM2000, cooking special dishes on order.  It just an estimate, I don’t have the time to do the exact business survey and sometimes they also won’t tell you the model. Even if I can give you the exact figure, you will not be interested and figure will change year by year. The coffee shop owner will run the beverage business and the collected rented will cross-subside the rental for the whole shop.

Each stall hired their own staff. Depending on coffee shop arrangement, sometimes the dish washing operating is centralized and outsourced to coffee shop owner with a fee. Probably due to hygiene purpose and fulfilling the municipal council requirement. In most cases, each stall washes their own dishes.

It’s a symbiotic business relationship between stall operator and coffee shop owner where boundary are more or less clearly defined. Each helping each other indirectly. What I like about this operation are
Each stall operator can only sell specific food, WANTAN Mee and curry mee. Only 2-3 different type of noodles. It’s a specialized stall, the operator need to focus making a 2-3 type of nice food. If their food cannot sell, they will be doomed. So their food must be nice enough to attract customer. If they want to holiday it’s up to them, rental still goes on.

If you compare this to a MAMAK store, normally their operation are centralized, one owner. 2-3 chef cook 100+ varies of food, no specialization. Owner take all kind of deal. Workers remain poor forever, owner drive big cars. Everything is owner operate by hiring staff to perform their duties, 95% of the stall is not rented out. I have hardly seen any stall is rented out in Malay and Indian owner restaurant. If you know any let me know so I can make a case here.

Let me pose you a question,” Chef ABC only do WANTAN MEE for years and every day. One Chef XYZ can cook up to 50 different dishes of MEE for you. If you asked Chef ABC and XYZ to cook WANTAN MEE. Whose “WANTAN MEE” will taste better?
Off course, is it Chef ABC because he can only sell WANTAN, if his WANTAN Mee no good he is out of Business.
So from this argument, I will go to Coffee shop to eat my noodle instead of going to one stop shop which 2-3 chef cook 100 different type of dishes.

From this argument, if you compare WANTAN mee in a coffee shop with a shop that only sell “WANTAN MEE”, which one is better.
Another example, if you compare Chicken Rice stall in a coffee shop with a shop that only sell CHICKEN RICE, which one taste better. The shop may have taken additional risk, effort and most importantly TASTE, if their chicken rice cannot sell, the whole shop Rm10,000 monthly rental cannot be possibly be paid correct. So I would go for specialized SHOP for specialized FOOD, the price is more $expensive, but generally the taste should be better than 90% of the coffee shop operated stall. However, there is a caveat, the specialized shop must be owner operated/monitored. I have few complaints that some specialized shop the taste no longer good because it was so popular that is it franchised.

Another example will be specialized shop such as “BAK KUT TEH” Chicken rice etc with decades of reputation and most importantly I must be rest assured that the old chef or his disciple is still around and cooking the food.
Then what about restaurant where you go for your annual dinner? Well, that a different argument. The amount of ingredient use to prepare for Chinese restaurant dinner varies a lot. Thus I think is it a different argument.


37. Petrol Subsidy Removal Proposal for Malaysia

Proposal for oil subsidy restructuring in Malaysia. 1. Prevent people from buying petrol using cash. All purchase must be done via card. T...