The 111th Episode : Restriction of Muslim
[March, 1998 Barcelona, Spain]
The planning and sponsorship of the meeting were on our company, and the conference room and meals were asked to be arranged by the distributor in the venue for the meeting.
The lunch on the 1st day, we had a problem with a dish arranged on the table. Two Lebanese couldn’t eat it because it contained pork.
They were Muslim. They paid attention not to happen such a thing on arranging meals. We were very sorry for the inconvenience for them. We explained to a head cook and asked to cook another one urgently. We made a trouble also to the hotel. Oh, a big failure. We were very sorry.
Muslim never eat pork. Even not only the meat, soup from pork is also ban. We do take care of this part most when we attend those people. There’re some people who don’t care in abroad these days. They can eat chicken and other meat but there’s strict regulation for cooking. They usually eat only the materials and dishes cooked in accordance with the regulation called HALAL. It’s serious for both hosts and attendants.
