Sarawakian chef Michelle Goh helms the one Michelin-starred Mia Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand and is the youngest Malaysian woman to have bagged this accolade.
Veggies on the cheap: Gayathiri showing the vegetables that have drastically gone down in price at her vegetable stall at the Batu Lanchang market in George Town, Penang. — LIM BENG TATT/The StarGEORGE TOWN: Amidst the scorching heatwave, while most people are feeling the burn, local vegetable and fish farmers are thriving under the sun.Instead of withering crops and dwindling supplies, the prolonged dry spell is actually boosting their yields.
“When it is expensive, demand drops and when customers buy less, we have total loss when the vegetables spoil.She said tomatoes used to be RM8 per kg during the Chinese New Year stretch, but now it is half the price .“Cucumbers and sawi are both RM4 per kg now. Before, they were RM6 per kg,” she said.
“However, now the yield is great and nationwide, locally-grown vegetables are cheap,” he said, adding that in the absence of rain, pests like aphids and mealy bugs also do not do well and that adds to the tonnages of each harvest. “Fish, especially barramundi , is RM10 or RM11 each. We are selling squid at RM18 for 500g and prawns between RM18 and RM35 for 500g depending on the sizes and species,” he said, adding that fishmongers did not expect prices to go up for some months yet.
Sungai Udang Caged Fish Farmers Association chairman Tioh Tiang Lai said the hotter the weather, the better it is for the fish farmers.
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