19 January 2015

'Line Clear' hampir kena clear...

Seorang pekerja gerai nasi kandar Line Clear menyediakan makanan untuk seorang pelanggan walaupun premis itu diserbu Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang, pagi tadi. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider oleh Hasnoor Hussain, 19 Januari, 2014.
MPPP serbu restoran nasi kandar Line Clear, peralatan berniaga dirampas...

Restoran nasi kandar terkenal Pulau Pinang, Line Clear hari ini diserbu Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang (MPPP) dan beberapa kerusi, meja serta peralatan dapur turut dirampas.

Bagaimanapun, restoran itu dilihat masih menjalankan aktiviti perniagaannya dan menghidangkan makanan kepada pelanggan yang beratur untuk menikmati masakan nasi campur berasal dari Selatan India itu.

Line Clear memulakan operasinya pada 1947, diusahakan secara tradisi oleh keluarga pemiliknya sejak turun temurun dan perniagaannya terkenal di kalangan penduduk tempatan dan pelancong asing.

MPPP berkata, pihaknya bertindak jam 4 pagi tadi selepas mendapati restoran itu menjalankan perniagaan tanpa lesen pada sejak awal tahun ini.

"Tindakan penguatkuasaan selari mengikut peruntukan Undang-undang Kecil Peniaga 1979," kata MPPP dalam kenyataan hari ini.

Katanya, MPPP sudah mengeluarkan surat arahan pelesenan kepada pengurusan baharu susulan keputusan yang dibuat majlis pada 8 Oktober tahun lalu.

Memulakan perniagaannya dengan kereta tolak pada 1950-an, restoran Line Clear menjadi terkenal dan mendapat perhatian chef selebriti Anthony Bourdain semasa lawatannya ke Pulau Pinang pada 2012 untuk dijadikan dokumentari dalam program televisyen.

MPPP yang mengeluarkan arahan Lesen Penjaja Gerai Lorong Belakang, pada Jun tahun lalu mengumumkan untuk mengambil tindakan terhadap restoran itu selepas berlakunya pertelagahan antara saudara yang mahu menuntut waris perniagaan daripada keluarga asas. – tmi

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Enforcement officers at the Line Clear stall in George Town, as seen in this video taken by closed-circuit camera. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Hasnoor Hussein, January 19, 2015.
Line cleared, Penang cracks down on famous street stall...

he famous Penang side lane eatery, Line Clear, had a few tables, chairs and cooking equipment seized today in a crackdown by the Penang Municipal City Council.

Despite the seizure, the street stall continued serving food to its patrons, who queued up for the mixture of rice and South Indian curries, fried food and vegetables.

Line Clear which first began operations in 1947, is run by a large family of cousins who take turns to operate the restaurant, and is patronised by both locals and tourists.

The Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) said it took the action at 4am as the operator of the eatery was running the business without a licence this year.

“The enforcement action is in line with the provisions under the Hawkers By-law 1979,” the MPPP said in a statement.

The MPPP added that it had issued a licence to a new operator following a decision made by the council on October 8, last year.

Said to have begun from a makeshift pushcart stall in the 1950s, the Line Clear restaurant, was featured by celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, during his visit to Penang in 2012, in his television series.

MPPP, which issues Back Lane Hawker Licences, had announced in June last year that it wanted to take action on the joint following a dispute between the cousins who claimed to have inherited the business from the founding family.

When met by reporters later, operator Abdul Hamid Seeni Pakir questioned the MPPP’s move to raid the 24-hour restaurant, without issuing any notice.

He said he would have been willing to address any issue had the council given notice beforehand.

“I am very perplexed at the way this was conducted,” he said.

“Don’t you feel that this action is excessive?”

He said the timing of the operation at 4am meant that the handful of staff working at that time were caught off guard. The MPPP enforcement crew took the chairs and tables away in a lorry.

The restaurant hit the news in June when the family dispute between Abdul Hamid and his cousins Sahubarali China Mohd Hanibah, Abdul Latiff Thulkarunai and Pathumah Iskandar, who all claimed rights over the restaurant became public.

The restaurant started as a makeshift stall by Seeni Pakeer along the alley which was then known as Lorong Jamban, because a public toilet is till today located at the end of the lane.

It was later unofficially named as Lorong Seeni Pakeer Coffeeshop before being named N Aishah Nasi Kandar.and finally to Line Clear.

The restaurant is also known for the tradition of the cashier hollering "line clear" after a customer has eaten and paid a meal. – tmi


TG.Nik Aziz cuma uzur biasa, kata Nik Abduh...

Mursyidul Am PAS Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat cuma uzur biasa selepas kesihatannya menurun sedikit selepas banjir besar melanda Kelantan baru-baru ini.

Menurutnya anaknya Nik Abduh, ayahandanya itu tidak turut serta bersolat di masjid seperti kebiasaannya kerana keletihan.

“(Beliau) di rumah dengan aktiviti biasa, berjalan, membaca dan rehat.

"Cuma selepas banjir baru-baru ini, kesihatannya menurun sedikit.

“Apa pun baik insya-Allah,” katanya yang juga anggota parlimen Pasir Mas.

Dalam kenyataannya yang disiarkan di Facebook Nik Aziz sebentar tadi, Nik Abduh berkata ayahandanya juga memilih untuk tidak diziarahi kerana mahu berehat secukupnya.

“Mari bersama memohon doa semoga Allah mengurniakan kesihatan yang baik buat ayahanda dan seluruh umat Islam yang dalam keuzuran kesihatan mereka dan semoga kita semua beroleh hidayat dan istiqamah dalam perjuangan menegakkan Islam,” katanya.

Sementara itu Bernama melaporkan gambar Nik Aziz yang didakwa terbaring kerana uzur dan kini tersebar secara meluas di laman sosial adalah gambar lama.


  
Perkara itu disahkan Timbalan Menteri Besar Kelantan Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah ketika dihubungi Bernama hari ini.
  
"Saya tidak pasti itu gambar bila, tapi saya tahu itu gambar lama. Dia sakit (tua) tetapi tidaklah sentiasa terbaring seperti di dalam gambar tersebut," katanya.
  
Beliau mengulas penyebaran gambar Nik Abdul Aziz, 83, yang dilihat sedang terbaring sambil dikelilingi dan ditemani anggota keluarga di dalam sebuah bilik.
  
Jelas Mohd Amar, kali terakhir beliau menemui bekas menteri besar Kelantan itu adalah sebelum berlakunya bencana banjir di Kelantan baru-baru ini dan keadaan beliau ketika itu, cuma sakit biasa.

Sementara itu, Naib Presiden PAS Salahuddin Ayub berkata beliau mengetahui tentang keadaan kesihatan Nik Aziz yang sedang uzur sejak dua minggu lepas, namun keadaannya beransur baik dan tidak seperti dipaparkan dalam gambar.
  
Sebelum ini, Nik Aziz dilapor berada dalam keadaan sihat dan sedang berehat di Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) Kubang Kerian.
  
Terdapat juga laporan dan khabar angin pada Oktober tahun lepas yang mengatakan Nik Abdul Aziz telah meninggal dunia akibat kompilasi jantung, namun ia tidak benar. - mk        


TS berdoa semoga TG Nik Aziz cepat sembuh...


Nik Aziz well and resting, says son...

The son of PAS' venerated spiritual leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has dispelled rumours of his father being severely ill.

"He is at home resting, reading and walking," said Nik Abduh (right), admitting that his condition has slightly deteriorated.

He also explained that the former Kelantan menteri besar has not been attending congregational prayers at the mosque due to fatigue.

Rumours have been rife over the health condition of Nik Aziz, especially after a photo was circulated on social media, showing him lying down and surrounded by family.

In a footage taken by Malaysiakini on Dec 18 last year before the floods in Kelantan, Nik Aziz appeared frail while attending Maghrib prayers at the mosque adjacent to his house.

He was seated outside due to being unable to scale the steps and having to carry around a a urinary incontinence bag.

Nevertheless, he was still able to walk and was alert to the presence of the cameraman.

Meanwhile, Bernama reported Kelantan Deputy Menteri Besar Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah as saying that the photograph circulating online was an old image of the PAS leader.

He also said that he met Nik Aziz before the floods.

“He is sickly (and old), but it is not like he is lying down all the time as shown in the photograph,” said Mohd Amar.

Nik Aziz, 83, has been suffering from poor health for a long time and this is not the first time such rumours have surfaced. - mk

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