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A good Welcome and how-do-you-do to our new visitors (or maybe you’re existing visitors?) who saw our article in the Malay Mail this afternoon.

You can see the whole article here: http://www.mmail.com.my/content/8456-food-review-fresh-treats-farm

If you’re wondering, the full articles of those 3 restaurants can be found below:

1. Thai Food, Fish/ Vegetable Farm, Cheras
2. Mix Cafe, Phileo Damansara I, Petaling Jaya
3. New Paris, SS2, Not France.

Thanks and enjoy!

Here at Feedmelah.com, we’re proud to announce that we’ll be launching our first newsletter soon!

Our plan for our newsletter is to bring you promotions, restaurants you may or may not have heard of, recipes, news, competitions, blog posts you may have missed and more.

To gain access to the newsletter, just register as a member to our site (it’s FREE!) and you’ll be added to our mailing list.

Additionally, in the future, as a member, you will gain access to our member’s only areas (which we are still building), which will be FULL of useful stuff.

Did I mention that it’s FREE?

So sign up today! Thx!

The world has gone through many many changes in the last few decades. We grew up in those decades. We remember when the air was cleaner, when there were less natural disasters, when it seemed like things were all good.

Well times have changed, the Earth as we used to know it is no more. We are plagued with a failing ozone, rising CO2 omissions and are ultimately paying for the extreme rate of development that the World is going through.

There are more cars on the road than ever before.

There is pollution.

There is more industrial production.

There is more pollution.

People need more ‘things’ in life.

And even more waste.

What Is Earth Hour?

Earth hour was started in Sydney in 2007,  where 2.2 million individuals and businesses switched off their lights in support of the planet Earth. The aim of Earth hour is to get 1 billion votes to present to the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where the global warming policies that will replace the Kyoto treaty will ultimately be decided.

You can see more about Earth Hour in the videos below.

Earth Hour Videos

How Can You Help?

It’s simple. 28th of March 2009 (Saturday) at 8.30p.m switch off your lights and keep them off for just 1 HOUR. Not that hard is it?

Here at Feedmelah.com we’ll be eating in the dark. You can too.

Hi everyone,

Some of you may have noticed that our site has been unavailable at certain times during the day today. This is due to some technical difficulties we are having with our webserver, which keeps crashing…

We will be changing from our current host to a new, more reliable host in the very near future so that this does not happen again…

And hopefully we’ll be able to provide you a much better food browsing experience

Thanks for your understanding,

-William

For those out there who own a restaurant, you’d think that you’d be referred to as a restauranter or maybe it’s spelt restauranteur right? Well according to the dictionary, you’d be wrong.

An owner of a restaurant is know as a:

[Dictionary.com]

Why is there no ‘N’ in restaurateur?

Apparently it’s because:

Restaurateur is the noun created from the verb restaurer by replacing the -er ending of the verb with the -ateur ending for for a man (its female equivalent, restauratrice, only appeared in 1767) who carries out the action. Hence, no n. At first, he was an artisan who restored or repaired objects. In the seventeenth century, he was an assistant who set broken bones for a surgeon. In the 1770s he became a man skilled in creating this special soup called a restaurant. [Eating in translation via Serious Eats]

The English language can be quite confusing sometimes!

From UPI.com:

LONDON, Feb. 4 (UPI) — A London restaurant said it has begun a monthlong promotion to allow customers to skip the bill and pay only what they feel their meal was worth.

The Little Bay restaurant said all patrons who dine during the rest of February will be asked to pay whatever they consider to be a fair amount instead of receiving a bill, Sky News reported Wednesday.

Little Bay owner Peter Ilic said the promotion is aimed at easing the stress of the economic downturn.

“Anything between a penny and 50 pounds ($72) will make me happy, it’s entirely up to the customer to decide,” Ilic said. “It just seemed the right thing to do with everyone under the cosh and feeling pretty miserable.”

“Customers have already paid 20 percent more than the original price,” the owner said. “People want to be polite and would be embarrassed not to pay enough.”

Somehow I don’t think this kind of scheme would work very well in Malaysia… I think alot of people would go to the restaurant, eat, then say,

“Umm… the food only so/so lah, I’ll give you RM5 ok? Thanks! Bye!”

The restaurant would be out of business in no time at all. Haha… [Photo from Flickr: Neubie]

With the major fluctuations of oil prices we’ve had the last few months, you can’t be blamed for thinking that one day, the price of oil will be so expensive that it’ll be unrealistic to use. But would you be surprised to hear that you can say the same for chocolate as well?

[Flickr: Captcreate]

[CNN]:

“I think that in 20 years chocolate will be like caviar,” says John Mason, executive director and founder of the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council (NCRC).

Could you survive a future without chocolate? Communities and the environment are also at stake.
“It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won’t be able to afford it.”

The prospect of a future without a ready supply of chocolate is not a pleasant thought for anyone with a sweet tooth, but it’s an even more terrifying prospect for producer countries that depend on cocoa beans for a huge portion of their GDP.

[Flickr: Sifu Renka]

Yields are declining all across the cocoa plantations of West Africa, where two thirds of the world’s supply is grown, as soils are degraded and the area able to support the crop retreats, according to Mason.

“The way we farm is just not sustainable,” he says. “I’m afraid by the time we wake up to that fact it will be too late. I’ve worked in Ghana for 25 years and I can show you huge areas that can no longer support a crop.”

The problem is that cocoa is naturally a rainforest plant that grows in shady conditions surrounded by a high biodiversity, but recently hybrid varieties have been grown on cleared land as mono-cultures and in full sun.

[Flickr: ParsecTraveller]

While this will give higher short term yields, the soil quickly becomes degraded and the lifespan of plants can be cut from 75 or 100 years, to 30 or less. When the trees die and the land is exhausted the farmers must move on and clear more rainforest to plant cocoa.

But the looming decline of West African cocoa is not only a problem for farmers and chocolate producers – Cadbury sources 100 percent of the beans they use for UK chocolate production from Ghana – environmentalists are increasingly concerned about the destruction of the rainforest for short-term gain.

Yes you read the title correctly. Pizza flavoured beer.

I didn’t have time to put up a post on some of the things that Feedmelah.com has been up to, but I thought you’d find this story amusing.

Officially called “Tom Seefurth’s Mama Mia Pizza Beer,” the brew is made with tomatoes, garlic, basil and oregano. It’s kind of like beer-meets-marinara sauce or a Bloody Mary and a beer chaser mixed in one bottle.

What’s even funnier is the website the creators of the beer have come up with to market the product. It is so cheesy, like a cheap commercial for a 1980s Italian pizzeria. A cheap pizzeria. See it here.

The things Americans can come up with… hmmm… wonder what it tastes like though? [Serious Eats via Chow] [Tom Seefurth's Mamma Mia Pizza Beer website]

Like I said in an earlier post, Malaysian’s always seem to have food on the mind. But it’s good to know that we’re not alone.

My friend Stan pointed this out to me yesterday while checking out football scores of some of the UEFA cup games that were played during the week.

It looks like the Germans always think about food as well.

Even while they’re naming football teams!

Maybe there's a Hotdog FC as well?