{"id":16364,"date":"2023-02-17T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2023-02-17T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:52:47","slug":"anwar-stops-for-hainanese-chicken-rice-at-sepang-stall-before-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16364","title":{"rendered":"Anwar stops for Hainanese chicken rice at Sepang stall before prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SEPANG, Feb 17<\/strong> &#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today visited\u00a0the Medan Selera Taman Putra Perdana\u00a0here\u00a0to have a meal of Hainanese chicken rice before going for Friday prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attired in a purple baju Melayu, Anwar arrived at the food court at about 12.40 pm and had&nbsp;the chicken rice prepared by the stall owner, Shafeek Affendi Abdul Malik, who has been operating the business for the past 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anwar also greeted other patrons at the food court, and they took the opportunity to snap selfies with him as keepsakes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-1024x553.png\" alt=\"hainanese\" class=\"wp-image-16365\" width=\"607\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-185x100.png 185w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-350x189.png 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-800x432.png 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM.png 1174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After having lunch with Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, Anwar proceeded to the Taman Putra Perdana Mosque, which is located about three kilometres from the food court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shafeek Affendi, 51, who hails from Taiping, Perak, said Anwar&#8217;s presence at his stall would be a treasured experience as he had&nbsp;never served meals to any national leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was so excited when told that the prime minister would stop by for lunch at my stall. Alhamdulillah, I was&nbsp;almost moved to tears that the No 1 leader came to my stall,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Today marks a day in history for me. I had not&nbsp;met Anwar before but today I was able&nbsp;to serve lunch to our prime minister,&#8221; added Shafeek Affendi, who learnt to cook Hainanese chicken rice in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2165316\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPANG, Feb 17 &#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today visited\u00a0the Medan Selera Taman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM.png",1174,634,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-768x415.png",640,346,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM-1024x553.png",640,346,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM.png",1174,634,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM.png",1174,634,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM.png",1174,634,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM.png",1024,553,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-6.51.08-PM.png",720,389,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Local<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16366,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions\/16366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}