Food

MIRI: Panic buying of cooking oil has started in northern Sarawak following talk that the price of this essential commodity may increase by up to 50% today.

The cooking oil rush was seen at all supermarkets and retail outlets starting from 5pm yesterday, sparked by an SMS rumour.

Just two days ago, the rush for petrol and diesel fuel caused traffic jams amid panic buying hours before the hike on Wednesday night.

However, the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry has reassured consumers that there is no official approval for the price of 1kg, 3kg and 5kg bottles of cooking oil to be increased.

MIRI: Erratic increases in the price of rice have resulted in panic buying in rural areas in Bekenu, Niah and Marudi in northern Sarawak.

Bekenu, a sub-district, had almost run out of rice stock.

The district’s population of some 10,000 had been scrambling for Super 15% rice following the announcement that Bernas had fixed the price at RM1.80 per kilo to be the same as in the peninsula.

The June 1 date for this price standardisation coincided with the Gawai Dayak festival resulting in higher demand and panic-buying in the district.

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The lower-income group in Miri city, which has a population of 300,000 people, are rushing to buy the Bernas-controlled rice and this has affected stocks.

The price hikes have increased the price of rice by whopping 100%. We better go back to farming or change diet to grass.

Good food exists in Miri. Really!

You just have to scour high and low for it. Food in Miri is everywhere - but lately as it seems to find consistently good food at reasonable prices is like discovering gold - they are few and far in between. Due to recent price hikes, some other food outlets that used to be good resorted to watering down their products and resulting in bad quality food. Or some people go into the food business simply for profit gains and nothing else. Coffeeshops, cafés and restaurants spring up all over town - sorry I meant city - and you never know what kind of foods and services you'll be getting.

This is exactly what this project created by 'DaSolve' is set out to do. To find the best, not necessarily in terms of price - of the most delicious foods in Miri.

You can read his blog here as he updates it. Let's wish him & his team all the best.

http://mirifoodhunting.blogspot.com/

MIRI (Bernama) - Bakers in the city have raised the price of white bread by about 24 per cent since Sunday.

This is despite the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry's state office here not having obtained approval from its headquarters.

State director Rodin Mamat told Bernama yesterday that he had received an application from the local bakery association to increase the price of bread from RM1.90 a loaf to RM2.50 early this month.

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Remember the term "bread & butter"? Now soon people will simply just eat butter minus the bread.

Miri will host 'Fruits Festival 2007' come November 3 and 4, featuring an exhibition and sales of Malaysian fruits.

To be held at the City Civic Centre, the exhibition is hoped to help promote and create greater public awareness on the commercial potential and nutritional properties of non-seasonal fruits such as papaya, watermelon, dragon and citrus fruits.

Themed "Towards Greater Commercialisation and Consumption of Quality Local Fruits", an official said the exhibition is also aimed rationalising an incremental consumption of local produce in substitution to the imported ones.

Among the highlights, there will be a launch of clones of several varieties of quality indigenous durian, the king of tropical fruits.

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