Around the 3rd of April 2008, RTB carried the news regarding the restaurant that served the "pork enzyme" chicken buns. .. Within several hours of the news, everyone in the country knows it is the famous Wywy restaurant. The next day, the restaurant saw a drop in the number of customers that enter its doors...
By the 4th week of April, Wywy restaurant published a notice in Brunei Times and Borneo Bulletin newspapers claiming that their product is halal and they used non-pork ingredients in the making of the pau. Anyone who says otherwise would be sued by the company.
Since that statement, the authorities haven't come forward to either agree or disagree with the statement published by Wywy restaurant.
So the question now is, what is going to happen? Is anything going to happen to whoever was responsible in making the news report?
Since some of the most resourceful bloggers in Brunei managed to get the Ministry of Industry and Resources memo in their blog for all to see the content of the "lab test," what then is the actual story of the whole thing?
Some people actually believed that Wywy's success has always bring many jealous enemies who wanted to destroy its business. From its cleanliness to its operating hours, someone is really "sakit hati" with wywy's business success. I hope that mole is exposed.... heheh...
Anyway, the point is, since Wywy published such statement for all to see, the government must respond in kind... they cannot just let the public be in suspense in the whole saga... Where's the transparency and accountability? Could someone just misused his position to target some business in Brunei and get away with it so easily??
As long as the govt remains silence, then i guess Wywy is right and they didn't actually served anything non-halal, and it could be due to sabotage by some unhappy former or currently working staff (ps. i ever went to one of their new branch, and the manager of the branch was really "kuai lan" to the staff, who were not attentive to customers. One does not criticized staff loudly in front of customers, not only embarrassing the staff but also making customers feel - why such manager/boss exists!).
Brunei law on halal-haram is quite "unique" - as long as the cook and owners of the restaurant are non-Muslim, their restaurant are automatically "Not Halal". So this is quite tricky... One could say that this is really bias, but I guess there are several sides of argument in this matter.
How halal is Dynasty, Emperor's Court, Empire, Sheraton, etc.... can Bruneians just eat food from Indonesian restaurants or Indian restaurants all the time? how halal are those restaurants? Have you check the cleanliness of the restaurants... sometimes the toilet are darn dirty and yet the restaurants could still operate.
"Muslims" restaurants by the sidewalk, road ways are allowed to operate but when non-Muslim try to ask permission, it is always denied. Must use "ali-baba" license then can get approval. Does this actually help the people or just allow them more dependent on other people???
By the 4th week of April, Wywy restaurant published a notice in Brunei Times and Borneo Bulletin newspapers claiming that their product is halal and they used non-pork ingredients in the making of the pau. Anyone who says otherwise would be sued by the company.
Since that statement, the authorities haven't come forward to either agree or disagree with the statement published by Wywy restaurant.
So the question now is, what is going to happen? Is anything going to happen to whoever was responsible in making the news report?
Since some of the most resourceful bloggers in Brunei managed to get the Ministry of Industry and Resources memo in their blog for all to see the content of the "lab test," what then is the actual story of the whole thing?
Some people actually believed that Wywy's success has always bring many jealous enemies who wanted to destroy its business. From its cleanliness to its operating hours, someone is really "sakit hati" with wywy's business success. I hope that mole is exposed.... heheh...
Anyway, the point is, since Wywy published such statement for all to see, the government must respond in kind... they cannot just let the public be in suspense in the whole saga... Where's the transparency and accountability? Could someone just misused his position to target some business in Brunei and get away with it so easily??
As long as the govt remains silence, then i guess Wywy is right and they didn't actually served anything non-halal, and it could be due to sabotage by some unhappy former or currently working staff (ps. i ever went to one of their new branch, and the manager of the branch was really "kuai lan" to the staff, who were not attentive to customers. One does not criticized staff loudly in front of customers, not only embarrassing the staff but also making customers feel - why such manager/boss exists!).
Brunei law on halal-haram is quite "unique" - as long as the cook and owners of the restaurant are non-Muslim, their restaurant are automatically "Not Halal". So this is quite tricky... One could say that this is really bias, but I guess there are several sides of argument in this matter.
How halal is Dynasty, Emperor's Court, Empire, Sheraton, etc.... can Bruneians just eat food from Indonesian restaurants or Indian restaurants all the time? how halal are those restaurants? Have you check the cleanliness of the restaurants... sometimes the toilet are darn dirty and yet the restaurants could still operate.
"Muslims" restaurants by the sidewalk, road ways are allowed to operate but when non-Muslim try to ask permission, it is always denied. Must use "ali-baba" license then can get approval. Does this actually help the people or just allow them more dependent on other people???
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