The Star Online: Metro: South & East
The Star Online: Metro: South & East |
- Festive spread featuring must-have delightful dishes
- State fire chief says number of fire incidents increased in 2012
- Malacca hotel costume themed annual dinner a big hit with staff
| Festive spread featuring must-have delightful dishes Posted: 08 Feb 2013 08:15 PM PST MALACCA: Historic City's leading hotel, Holiday Inn Melaka ushers "The Year of the Snake" by unveiling an array of delightful festive dishes. The hotel targets those who are eager dine in style during this festive season and the reunion dinner crowd. Diners could opt for the spread of three auspicious set dinner menus meticulously prepared by hotel's renowned chefs to celebrate the occasion. Holiday Inn Melaka has set its prosperity set menu price at RM888++ that features eight-course of must-have festive dishes such as a Yee Sang set, crispy roasted chicken served with chili almond flakes and other Lunar New Year dishes. To those sweet toothed guests, relish the prosperity set with the serving of delicious glutinous dumpling with red bean cream. The hotel also unveiled its abundance set menu at RM988++, featuring much more premium items such as the braised shark's fin soup with dried scallop and crab meat, deep fried Garoupa fillet with chilia almond flakes, double boiled white fungus and red date with American ginseng and lotus seed. Holiday Inn Melaka has priced it most exclusive reunion dinner menu known longevity set menu at RM1,288++, that features among others, items such as the prosperity Abalone Yee Sang set, superior shark's fin broth, braised tea flower mushroom, deep fried prawn meat, scallop with wasabi, crab meat fried rice. The celebration is incomplete without tossing the yee sang to mark another amazing year ahead hence the hotel has decided to serve its yee sang set with fresh Salmon priced at between RM50 to RM88++ where guests could also opt for take-away. Myriad of Oriental favourites will be also offered as Chinese New Year buffet dinner during the auspicious period from today till Feb 11 where the price has been tagged at only RM68++ per person. On New Year's Day, guests could usher in the year of the Snake with a Chinese New Year High Tea buffet where variety of Chinese Cuisine would be offered at a price of only RM55++ per person. Apart from the cuisine, the hotel is also offering special rates for revellers to pamper themselves during the Lunar New Year at Tea Tree Spa. The Spa places special offer of its 90 minutes "Hibiscus Rose Scrub and Hair Cream Bath Avocado with Express Tension Reliever Massage" at only RM174 nett per person. n Holiday Inn Melaka, Jalan Syed Ab. Aziz, 75000 Malacca. For further information or reservation, call 06-285 9000 or e-mail essence.kitchen@holidayinnmelaka.com for dining or spa@holidayinnmelaka.com for Tea Tree Spa. This is the writer's personal observation and is not an endorsement by StarMetro. |
| State fire chief says number of fire incidents increased in 2012 Posted: 08 Feb 2013 08:02 PM PST JOHOR BARU: The Johor Fire and Rescue Department will hold fire prevention courses to the public in view of the increase in fire related cases in the state. Its director Datuk Abd Ghani Daud said last year there were 3,683 fire cases compared to 2,667 cases in 2011, which is an increase of 1,016 cases. He added that the department was concerned over the jump in the number of cases as 11 people had perished in 2012 compared to six people in 2011. "The state lost RM200mil in fire damages last year in contrast to RM116mil in 2011," he said. Abd Ghani pointed out that most fire-related incidents were avoidable and investigations showed that human error was the cause. "Due to this, the state Fire and Rescue Department will hold seminars and courses on fire prevention to create awareness to the public," he told a press conference after the department's yearly assembly held here recently. He urged members of the public to immediately contact the department for fire emergency cases instead of putting it out alone. "When there is a fire, please do not try to put it out by yourself. "It only takes three to five minutes before a fire can escalate into something bigger and worse," he said adding that seminars and courses would give the correct information to putting out a fire to the public. In another note, Abd Ghani also said the department had taken several measures in conjunction with the Chinese New Year. "The department personnel are on standby where we have place them at the Sedenak Toll and Yong Peng Toll along the North-South Expressway in case of an accident. "We have also conducted inspections at major shopping malls and hypermarkets to ensure that they adhere to the department's regulation," he said. |
| Malacca hotel costume themed annual dinner a big hit with staff Posted: 08 Feb 2013 08:04 PM PST MALACCA: Favourite fairytale characters came to life at an event organised by Bayview Hotel here to mark the hotel's 26th Anniversary. Staff of the hotel gathered for a fun-filled night of fairytales where princesses to villains and fluttering fairies stole the show. The party was celebrated on a grand scale and staff who have served between 10 and 25 years were rewarded with LED TVs. Employees who worked between five and 10 years took home a microwave and grill while those who were with the hotel for a less than five years were happy with an Electrolux vacuum cleaner each. While the main kitchen, sales and maintenance departments team left the crowd in stitches with their hilarious departmental performances, the housekeeping department wowed the crowd with their slick dance moves and well-choreographed performance to take home the grand prize in the competition. The villains proved triumphant as the "Award for Best Dressed" went to the Evil Queen from Snow White while the Queen of Hearts was runner-up. Excitement grew during the lucky draw session which offered a wide variety of holiday packages, electrical items, hampers galore and cash prizes. Grand lucky draw winner, Joyce Lim walked away with RM1,000 while Shaari Dorahim of maintenance department took home RM800 and housekeeping staff Norazlina Rozlin won RM600. The night ended in full excitement as staff let their hair down and danced the night away. |
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