Hotels cook dinner up a storm with hawker fare

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JEN Penang in George City has turned its driveway into a drive-via ‘hawker strip’.

GEORGE City: With attendees pressured to remain absent and no vacationers in town, a number of Penang hotels are turning to hawking street foodstuff to make finishes meet up with.

Not only are best cooks putting on a new hat as roadside meals handlers, the inns are also offering away totally free stays for typical patrons of the hawker fare.

In the MCO period, hotels are not permitted to give rooms to any one other than government officials, frontliners and necessary company workers. Their kitchens and places to eat are also shut as dining-in is not allowed.

To experience the total added benefits of the takeaway marketplace, a 5-star hotel close to Komtar here has transformed its front entrance normally crammed with valet cars and trucks into a hawker avenue.

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The pop-up hawker stalls at the car or truck park of the Rasa Sayang Resort in Batu Ferringhi.

JEN Penang has now absent into the food business enterprise comprehensive-time, with major cooks leaving their kitchens to acquire to the wok and make regional favourites this sort of as char koay teow.

Organization for the hotel’s “hawker strip” has been brisk because it opened its doors yesterday, a spokesman mentioned, pushed by the un-lodge like costs of in between RM6 and RM8.50. Beverages, ranging from teh tarik to lattes are also fairly priced for a prime resort, ranging from RM2.50 to RM10.

In search of an option supply of earnings, other five-star motels on the island are also using the food stuff and beverage outdoors their premises. The Rasa Sayang Resort and Golden Sands Lodge in Batu Ferringhi have turned their car parks into a place for pop-up stalls, promoting laksa, hokkien mee and cendol.

Foodstuff is priced in between RM5 and RM12 with a issue supplied to customers for every RM2 expended. With 350 factors gathered, a shopper can make 1 night’s totally free remain.

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A mee stall at Bayview Seaside Hotel in Batu Ferringhi.

G Lodge at Gurney Travel has also taken a related technique in supplying takeout at RM15 nett for a selection of high-end meals. Bayview Seashore Lodge in Batu Ferringhi is also using the hawker route, offering food outside the house its entrance, with RM5 “ais kacang” and RM6 dalgona coffees.

The Malaysian Association of Resorts a short while ago told FMT that hotels are in dire straits, with occupancy dipping beneath 20% nationwide. Among March and November final year, a whole of 204 tourism and lodge organizations shut simply because of limitations brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.