Wednesday, October 29, 2008
PENGUMUMAN TERKINI MAJLIS SUAI KENAL DAN SAMBUTAN HARI RAYA PIMK MB
saya telah diminta oleh Bendahari menghebahkan maklumat berkaitan perkara di atas.
Dijemput kepada semua ahli-ahli PIMKMB menghadiri majlis sambuta hari raya dan suai kenal pada hari Jumaat (31/10/2008). Jamuan bermula jam 3.00pm walaubagaimanapun, semua ahli PIMKMB diminta menghadirkan diri seawal 8.00am di perkarangan KIMAR dengan membawa brosur, kad perniagaan, produk dan lain-lain untuk dimasukkan ke dalam "goodies bag"...
Penasihat dan saya sendiri tidak dapat menghadiri kerana ada komitmen lain. Semoga majlis berjalan dengan lancar dan kalau boleh, tangkaplah gambar sebanyak mungkin untuk dimasukkan ke dalam blog nanti.
Azli
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Invitation to the Seminar on the Food Processing Industry
Dear Sir/Madam
Invitation to the Seminar on the Food Processing Industry *
Wednesday, 5 November 2008 at MIDA Hall, Plaza Sentral, *
Kuala Lumpur Sentral*
We are pleased to inform that MIDA is organising a Seminar on the Food
Processing Industry on *5 November 2008* at MIDA Hall, Plaza Sentral,
Kuala Lumpur.
The objectives of the seminar are to update Malaysian manufacturers/entrepreneurs on the investment opportunities and facilities
that are available for the food processing industry as well as to promote
domestic investment in the food processing industry.
In this respect, we cordially invite you(and association members) to participate in the seminar which is free of charge and is on a first-come-first-served basis. The tentative programme is attached for your reference. Please kindly complete the registration form and return it to
MIDA latest by *30 October 2008* via fax 03-2274 8502 or e-mail.
Should you require further information or clarification, please contact the
following officers :-
(i) Ms. Khamilah Mohd Yusoff
Tel : 03-2267 3593
E-mail : *khami...@mida.gov.my*
(ii) Mr. Stonton Morse Anak Jerry Rumpang
Tel : 03-2267 3594
E-mail : *ston...@mida.gov.my*
Thank you.
Stonton Morse .Agro-based Industries Division
Block 4, Plaza Sentral
Jalan Stesen Sentral 5
Kuala Lumpur Sentral
50470 Kuala Lumpur
Telephone: 03 - 2267 3633 Ext:594
Fax : 03 - 2274 8502
E-mail : ston...@mida.gov.my
Website : http://www.mida.gov.my*
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
SEMUA GAMBAR DAN HEBAHAN BOLEH DIBESARKANLAH ADIK, ABANG, KAKAK DLL...
Sorrylah kalau ada yang tak boleh baca posting saya terutama bab hebahan hari raya. Just nak inform kalau ada yang masih tak tau. Dia bukan untuk dilihat as it is, ia direka bentuk untuk di "click" untuk dibesarkan supaya semua warga muda atau tua boleh membaca hebahan tersebut...saya kalau baca dari blog terus tanpa klik gambar atau hebahan tersebut (yang ada thumbnail tu...), pun tak nampak sebab dah kertu...hehe...Tentang tulisan dan choice of background, it's me...please accept me as I am.
Azli
PERBINCANGAN BERSAMA MATRADE DAN SMIDEC
A'kum,
Saya mendapat e-mail dari Tuan Presiden untuk menghebahkan maklumat di bawah yang dipetik dari e-mail Pn Juriah. E-mail berkaitan tentang perjumpaan yang dirancangkan oleh Pn Juriah bagi pihak PIMKMB untuk bersama-sama berbincang dengan pihak MATRADE dan SMIDEC tentang bantuan-bantuan yang boleh didapati dari organisasi ini. Harap semua pihak mengambil kesempatan di atas usaha yang telah dilakukan oleh Pn Juriah. Thanks Kak Ju...
E-mail asal seperti di bawah...
Dear Ms. Juriah,
Merujuk kepada perbualan telefon pagi ini, dimaklumkan bahawa sebanyak 18
syarikat (40 peserta) dibawah seliaan MARA atau dikenali sebagai Kumpulan
Industri Makanan MARA di bawah projek Halal Hub, akan mengadakan
perbincangan bersama MATRADE dan SMIDEC berkenaan bantuan yang diberikan
oleh agensi kerajaan tersebut.
Berikut adalah tarikh cadangan bagi program yang dirancang:
Tarikh : 6 November 2008 (Khamis)
Masa : 10.00 pagi*
* Tempat : Bilik Johannesburg 2,
* Tingkat 5, West Wing MATRADE
Disamping itu, pihak kami juga ingin mendapatkan senarai syarikat-syarikat
di bawah program ini (Full contact, termasuk produk keluaran dan pasaran
eksport sedia ada).
Bagi tujuan surat menyurat, boleh ditujukan kepada :
Pn. Wan Norma Wan Daud
Pengarah
Bahagian Produk dan Perkhidmatan
atau
En. Yusram Yusup
Pengurus Kanan,
Bahagian Pembangunan Produk dan Perkhidmatan
Isa Farhin Abdullah
Services and Product Promotion Division
Tel : 603-62077672
Fax : 603-62037281
e-mail : isafar...@matrade.gov.my
PS-Kak Juriah, saya dah approvekan e-mail untuk participation dalam KIMAR google group. Sorry sebab baru balik dari Kelantan ada kerja sikit. TQ
Thursday, October 16, 2008
AZLI...SAKA GILA POKOK
PENGUSAHA KATERING
Gambar ni tak nampak sangat ni, kena close up baru nampak....
yang ni baru jelas...orang ni masak sambil bergendang ke masak pakai gigi, untung juta-juta ganti ler periuk yang semenggah sikit. Sorry le kak, saya ambil gambar ni masa orang kawin baru ni. Ini yang bahaya kalau majlis ada blogger atau wartawan...renung-renungkan
SERANTAU DESA FOOD
BOS KITA DULU MASUK PAPER
AMBANG DORONGAN SDN BHD
Nak cerita pengalaman kami dengan usahawan bumiputera antara yang terawal adalah dengan Syarikat Ambang Dorongan Sdn Bhd. Syarikat ni dah dapat pensijilan GMP dari Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia. Kak Nani saya perhati ada attitute dan memberi layanan yang betul baik terhadap kami, pihak MARA maupun pekerja sendiri. Saya rasa itulah antara resipi kejayaan syarikat ini....teringat pulak kuih cucur badak yang Kak Nani bagi masa saya melawat kilang ari tu. Sedap sungguh. Ni ada keratan majalah walaupun dah lama, tapi ada info gak pasal Syarikat ni...
LATESTEST INFO (SUPERLATIVE BAGI LATEST)
Berita terbaru berkaitan jamuan hari raya KIMAR. Tunda 31 Oktober 2008. Aturcara dll sama seperti posting terdahulu. Sekian harap maklum.
Azli
CHIKUNGUNYA...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
PEMBATALAN SAMBUTAN HARI RAYA KIMAR
Saya lampirkan maklumat yang diekstrak melalui e-mail dari Pn Nonie (DMG) berkaitan perkara di atas...e-mail berbunyi (dengan nada sedih !!!).
Assalamualaikum semua,
Pada hari ini, kak juriah,kak aini dari seafood terminal dan saya dah
berduskusi pasal sambutan aidil fitri PIMK Mukim batu, yang kita
jadualkan pada 16 Oktober ni.
Berikut adalah verdict yang telah dicapai untuk makluman & TINDAKAN setiap
ahli PIMK.
Tarikh : - tak jadi 16hb. akan di confirm kemudian. yang pastinya before
1 November 2008, otherwise dia tak jadi sambutan aidil fitri.
Masa : mulai 3 petang onward
lokasi : seafood terminal restaurant
lot 3, jalan kelab ukay utama, kelab ukay, taman kelab ukay
68000 ampang
tel/fax : 03-41472300
kak aini & abang mat (maaf kalau salah eja)
Menu : Signature Buffet by Seafood Terminal
Sekian harap maklum...harap ada la orang yang call atau at least sms semua org. takut pulak ada yang pergi gak esok sebab tak dapat maklumat pembatalan yang last minute ini...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
PATUTLAH SAYANG NAK MAKAN KUIH RAYA NI...
STEADY LAH HIKMAH FOOD ???
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Kertan Akhbar Dipetik Daripada : Utusan Malaysia (10 Oktober 2008)
By Rohana Mustaffa Bernama - Wednesday, October 8
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8(Bernama) -- It was a Saturday and Hikmah Food Specialities Sdn Bhd's outlet operated from 9 am to 6 pm like any other day. Several workers were seen busy packing an assortment of pre-cooked ingredients, mostly made from a mixure of seafood and beancurd, that is used in the tantalising yong tau foo delicacy.
Each of the packages contain fish balls, crab meat and squid balls, lady's fingers (okra) and chili stuffed with fish paste (surimi), wantan and fucuk, fish curry puffs and fish fingers and up to soup flavouring, soy sauce, chili sauce, fried shallots, seeds and ground nuts, and all destined to a leading hotel in Jalan Ampang.
At the same time a number of Malay customers were seen busy buying the yong tau foo of their choice. This is no surprise as the popularity of the Chinese delicacy has transcended the ethnic lines in Malaysia. The only difference is that Hikmah Food Specialities's offering is produced by a Malay entrepreneur with his own secret recipe to success.
Hikmah's yong tau foo spread is ubiquitous in the night markets, farmer's market and supermarkets all over the country.
A MALAY WHO VENTURED INTO THE YONG TAU FOO BUSINESS
But why choose yong tau foo? Asked the writer to the managing director of the company Syed Abdullah Syed Hassani, 48, when he was explaining how he started the venture.
“I wanted to do something different,” he said admitting that many of his friends suggested it was better he ventured into tom yam business but he was aware that the halal yong tau foo produced by a Malay had big potential.
“Initially it was quite difficult to find halal ingredients used for the delicacy and this problem provided me an opportunity to find a niche,” he said adding that it was no easy task for the company to achieve success like what it is enjoying now.
The father of four children residing in Seremban admitted that he had no knowledge in producing yong tau foo, thus he looked for business partners – a night market trader Zainon Hashim and Low Pik Woon who had worked in a tofu making factory.
LEARNT FROM OWN MISTAKES
No banks and agencies except Bank Pertanian wanted to lend him a helping hand at that time in 1999, beginning of the economic downturn, so he started the business with his own capital and RM100,000 loan from the bank.
While his partner Low taught the workers on the basics of making fish balls, Syed Abdullah wore different hats - the boss and the worker.
At the same time he attempted his own recipes to produce the tantalizing spread for the yong tau foo, complete with the soup flavouring, sweet sauce and the chili sauce.
“Initially I experimented, wasted a lot of raw material, was even chided by the customers over quality control issues like overcooked sauce and so on.
“I worked with some Chinese entrepreneurs to learn the right process and as a reciprocal gesture I helped them to obtain halal certification. But they all have their own secret recipes,” he explained.
Nevertheless, Syed Abdullah perservered and in four years time his yong tau foo had established its market niche. He procured new machineries and expanded the production and sales at his premises at Taman Industri Bolton, Batu Caves.
The company now manufactures and distributes yong tau foo using about 500kg of fish daily with the sales figure reaching between RM250,000 and RM300,000 monthly.
“My profit margin is small because the price is set by the market forces,” he said. Now Hikmah Food Specialities has 40 workers and its own branch in Subang.
MOVING TO A NEW SITE
The company will shift to a new and bigger area at the Kompleks Industri Makanan Mara (Kimar) in Kampung Batu Muda, Batu Caves, probably by the end of the year along with 17 other small and medium scale entrepreneurs.
Syed Abdullah has invested RM3 million to buy new machinery and other necessities for the new premises.
He has been waiting for this opportunity from Mara to expand his business, including venturing overseas, and distribute his products to hotels, restaurants, more supermarkets and so on.
In staying ahead of his competitors he is now working hard to attain the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Point) and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) certifications from the Ministry of Health.
Syed Abdullah who has a degree and masters qualification in finance and business, hopes that the recognition will help enhance consumer confidence on products and help widen the market.
HALAL STATUS THE HALLMARK
Syed Abdullah is now proud of the fact that the standard of his halal yong tau foo is equivalent to the ones available in the market.
In ensuring his products are 100 percent halal, he avoids using unverified chemicals or animal proteins often used to thicken or soften the fish ball or fish cake.
Syed Abdullah was never deterred by the slow pace of progress and described his achievement “like being in a marathon, slow but never give up”.
HIS SUCCESS AUGURS WELL FOR OTHER MALAYS
In retrospect, the road to success was not an easy one.
In the beginning nobody wanted to share the trade secret and even the Malays were reluctant to support him by supplying halal material or buying his products.
They were lots of setbacks for example a quill's egg supplier who agreed to supply between 30,000 and 40,000 eggs daily failed to supply in the third month and the sales promoters that he employed at hypermarkets failed to turn up and open their stations to promote his products.
But Syed Abdullah believes he has a role in helping other Malay entrepreneurs while building up his own business.
He had tried to assist unemployed Malay graduates help him sell the yong tau foo, but the effort was short-lived as they were not keen.
He even planned to help others by offering them distributorship in other states but with a condition that they have to come up with an initial capital of RM20,000 to set up a cold room. However, many were reluctant to take up the offer.
Why not share the space with stockist of frozen food of well known Malay brand?. Syed Abdullah indicates his idea in establishing his own supply chain.
“I don't want to see my product as the second best, because my ambition is to see that my yong tau foo brand has its own place,” he said.
Syed Abdullah has been working hard to secure continuous fish supply and is now negotiating with the fishermen in the Tok Bali jetty in Kelantan to procure supplies of small fishes like kelisi for the fish paste.
Syed Abdullah's main aim now is to build up his fish based yong tau foo business, tofu and koay teow at three locations - Batu Caves, Subang and Seremban.
-- BERNAMA
CABARAN UNTUK PESERTA KIMAR DARI MARA...
Sunday, October 12, 2008
ANAK AZLI...
Kecik-kecik lagi dah pantang jumpe kamera...ada aje aksi yang nak dibuatnye...Tak kiralah di mana pun...hatta di kawasan perkuburan...