"Exim Bank (Bank Eksport-Import Malaysia Berhad) should give out loans to anyone interested to set up Malaysian restauarants abroad to encourage more Malaysian entrepreneurs to venture in the food business overseas,"Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Deputy Prime Minister
KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 - hopes that Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak8,000 restaurants offering Malaysian cuisines can be opened worldwide by the year 2015.
He said that currently there were only 400 restaurants offering Malaysian dishes which were operating throughout the world.
"Exim Bank (Bank Eksport-Import Malaysia Berhad) should give out loans to anyone interested to set up Malaysian restauarants abroad to encourage more Malaysian entrepreneurs to venture in the food business overseas," he said in his speech at the `Pahang Nite', here.
He hoped that the low interest rate of three percent per annum would be one of the factors that would attract restaurant operators to take up the venture.
He said Malaysia restaurant operators should also change the environment to give the Malaysian look so that patrons could identify the restaurants from their interior designs.
Najib said the Malaysian menu offered delicious food with varieties compared to the restaurants of other countries.
"Foreigners are not familiar with the delicious Malaysian cuisines. I don't want to sound over-patriotic or biased but I know Thai cuisines are very popular but Malaysian cuisines are actually more diversified in their tastes rather than the Thai food," he said.
Najib said the lack of promotion on Malaysian cuisines made them less known compared to the food of other countries.
The `Pahang Nite' organised by the Pahang state government was held in conjunction with the Pahang Food, Cultural and Craft Fest held for a week from Monday.
He said that currently there were only 400 restaurants offering Malaysian dishes which were operating throughout the world.
"Exim Bank (Bank Eksport-Import Malaysia Berhad) should give out loans to anyone interested to set up Malaysian restauarants abroad to encourage more Malaysian entrepreneurs to venture in the food business overseas," he said in his speech at the `Pahang Nite', here.
He hoped that the low interest rate of three percent per annum would be one of the factors that would attract restaurant operators to take up the venture.
He said Malaysia restaurant operators should also change the environment to give the Malaysian look so that patrons could identify the restaurants from their interior designs.
Najib said the Malaysian menu offered delicious food with varieties compared to the restaurants of other countries.
"Foreigners are not familiar with the delicious Malaysian cuisines. I don't want to sound over-patriotic or biased but I know Thai cuisines are very popular but Malaysian cuisines are actually more diversified in their tastes rather than the Thai food," he said.
Najib said the lack of promotion on Malaysian cuisines made them less known compared to the food of other countries.
The `Pahang Nite' organised by the Pahang state government was held in conjunction with the Pahang Food, Cultural and Craft Fest held for a week from Monday.
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