WHY PAY SO MUCH FOR FOODS PREPARED NEAR GARBAGE DUMPS?

At 6.20 a.m. this morning, yarl restaurant is already making loud and thunderous noise with its kitchen hood. Since  I have been waken up from my deep sleep by this loud and thunderous kitchen hood noise and cannot sleep again even though I am sleepy and tired, I might as well come to my computer and write another article about yarl restaurant. Do you think I enjoy writing about yarl restaurant's air and noise pollution program? Life is not easy for me too. I have to be waken up by yarl restaurant early every morning but despite my state of sleepiness and tiredness, I have to think of something to write about yarl restaurant. Every article that I write is filled with pain but this is the only way to call for help because we, as victims of yarl restaurant's noise pollution program, are suffering intensely day and night because of the noise. The grief and pain of having to be waken up early every morning and to endure sleepiness and tiredness every day of our lives since January 2013 when yarl restaurant started operation is what gives me the enthusiasm to go on writing and fighting for our most basic right i.e the right to have enough sleep. Thank God, I am never out of ideas when it comes to writing about yarl restaurant's air and noise pollution program.

Above is the picture of a clean kitchen that belongs to one of the restaurants in the West. In the above picture, you can see a clean kitchen environment where the workers are preparing food. Food prepared this way are certainly more appetizing. This is how a kitchen should look like. Let us compare the photo above with the ones below. Below are photos of yarl restaurant's open air kitchen where foods are prepared. Look at these pictures carefully. A picture speaks a thousand words. Would  you like to eat foods prepared this way? Is this our ideal Malaysian kitchen? Would you mind paying so much for foods prepared under such circumstances? Restaurant foods are not cheap nowadays. Perhaps Malaysians don't mind eating dirty foods. Is yarl restaurant the only restaurant in Malaysia that makes use of rubbish dumps as its open air kitchen? Perhaps this is what makes it so special!

 

The truth is there are many large garbage bins near yarl restaurant and the workers of this restaurant like to prepare food outside the kitchen (probably because the kitchen is too small to accommodate the table that they use to prepare food). Just imagine what will happen when foods are prepared on the same lane where the garbage bins are and that these garbage bins are near to yarl restaurant!  . What do we normally find in the garbage bins? Please take note that when the Alam Flora workers empty the bins, they do not wash them and there are many decaying leftovers sticking to the bins for goodness knows how long. Results from the study by researchers at one of the world's leading waste management centres showed that garbage bins could be a breeding ground for a host of bacteria associated with some of the most devastating stomach bugs including salmonella, e.coli, legionella, clostridium and deadly listeria.

 

Can you see the big arrow in the photo above? It is pointing at yarl restaurant's noisy kitchen hood. This is where yarl restaurant's open air kitchen is. The big garbage bins you see in the above photo can be found on the right of yarl restaurant.

In the photo above, you can see yarl restaurant's open air kitchen with another big garbage bin on the left. Can you see the rubbish on the ground surrounding this garbage bin? (Photograph taken on 18 May 2014 at around 10 a.m.)

Below are some photos of yarl restaurant's open air kitchen where foods are prepared. Look at these pictures carefully. A picture speaks a thousand words. Would  you like to eat foods prepared this way? Is this our ideal Malaysian kitchen? Would you mind paying so much for foods prepared under such circumstances? Restaurant foods are not cheap nowadays. Perhaps Malaysians don't mind eating dirty foods.

 

 yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 12 may 2014 at 7.40 a.m.
 

 yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 11 May 2014 at 5 p.m.

 

 yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 4 May 2014 at 7.40 a.m.

 

yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 4 May 2014 at 7.40 a.m. 



yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 4 May 2014 at 7.40 a.m. 



yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 4 May 2014 at 7.40 a.m.

 

yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 4 May 2014 at 7.40 a.m.

 

yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 4 May 2014 at 7.40 a.m.

 

 yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 27 April 2014 at 8.00 a.m.

 

yarl restaurant's open air kitchen on 27 April 2014 at 8.00 a.m.

 

The photo below is taken from the Facebook "Sampah Tidak Dikutip". If you read carefully what is written on this Facebook, you would realize that this heap of rubbish was just opposite yarl restaurant. Although this heap of rubbish is already cleared now, the flat dwellers still dump rubbish there from time to time since this is the flat's rubbish dump. What is really ridiculous is yarl restaurant also uses this rubbish dump as their second open air kitchen when they have a lot of food to prepare. Why does yarl restaurant need so many open air kitchens? Is it because their kitchen is so small that they have to make use of the rubbish dumps around as their kitchen?