GOASIAPLUS May 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE
It is usual that
as we get busy
on a routine
basis, we tend to overlook the blessings in
our surroundings. Always looking afar for
vacation places, getting tempted with foods
on social media and socialising through
phones than bonding with people around us.
Because sometimes we don’t have to
look far to seek for the finer things in life. If
we pay close attention, we will notice that
the good things are always nearer at hand.
From awesome places to go, amazing food,
and of course, people.
For a change of scenery, Kenyir Lake
by Malaysia’s east coast has been long set
out of sight as a travel destination. It is by
good chance that Tourism Malaysia engaged
with GOASIAPLUS in the ‘Ekspresi Media’
programme to uncover this hidden gem.
Check out page 12 on how simple
activities like living on a houseboat,
trekking and swimming with fishes
make Kenyir Lake a great relaxing travel
destination without breaking the bank.
Local food as never been a
disappointment to Malaysians. Most of our
first love is nasi lemak and it also never fail
to amaze tourists who first try the icon of
all Malaysian food. But, how many of us
actually know how to make this iconic dish?
Professional cook and author of four
Malaysian cookbooks, Sara Khong, opens
her kitchen for travellers to join “New
Malaysian Kitchen”, a cooking class of local
cuisine right at her home (page 22) for
you to try your hand in making all of our
delicious offerings.
For every person’s best folk, we have
our ever reliable and supportive mothers
to take care of everything. It is a great day
to celebrate all that they have done for us
on May 12 so if you need a gift guide, see
page 20. Lastly, to all great mothers, Happy
Mother’s Day!
John So
Publisher
MOUNTAINS
MADE OF
PLASTIC
Photo ADOBE STOCK
I have been making the news headlines lately.
Here I am in a small country in Southeast Asia,
an absolutely beautiful place called Malaysia, (not
very surprisingly) made into the world’s rubbish
dump of plastic wastes.
Malaysia is already one of the world’s biggest
single-use plastic consumers before the country
became the plastic waste capital of the world.
There are landfills filled with endless trash as
the country import wastes at large from United
States, Japan and Britain.
With no proper faculties of disposing the
plastics, these wastes are burnt in the open air
releasing toxic chemicals. My surroundings parts
from air, soil and waterways are polluted and
when I’m sick, my ecosystem will cause health
issues to people and other living species.
Come on, it is not only our problem. It is a
global problem. Enough of prostituting me for
profit. Save the earth and stop single-use plastic.
There is only so little of the plastic wastes are
clean plastic that are recyclable.
Stop purchasing drinks that comes in a
plastic packaging on a whim. Doesn’t it make you
feel better if knowing that the end product of the
take-out food or drink you buy only goes down
your stomach and nowhere else?
Forever forsaken,
The environment
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