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Culinary destinations should have family-friendly food labels: Ministry
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The Tourism Ministry is urging culinary destinations to put up family-friendly labels at their places of business as most of foreign tourists are concerned about eating healthy food. (Shutterstock/File)
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he Tourism Ministry is urging culinary destinations to put up family-friendly labels at their places of business as most of foreign tourists are concerned about eating healthy food.
“In Japan, family-friendly food has become a way of life among the Japanese,” said Tendi Naim, the head the ministry’s culinary and shopping tourism acceleration team.
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Tendi, who is also the founder of the Bumbu Desa Restaurant, shared his personal experience going to the Semawis Market in Semarang, Central Java.
At the night market in Semarang’s Chinatown district, which offers an array of dishes, he did not know which eatery he was going to pick because none of them had family-friendly labels.
Another thing that he emphasized was cleanliness, especially regarding clean water supply.
“Washing buckets should never be visible to visitors. Everything needs to be hygienic, with a proper water supply system,” he added. (kes)
