Enforcement officers at the Line Clear stall in George Town, as seen in this video taken by closed-circuit camera. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Hasnoor Hussein, January 19, 2015.The famous Penang side lane eatery, Line Clear, had a few tables, chairs and cooking equipment seized today in a crackdown by the Penang Municipal City Council.Despite the seizure, the street stall continued serving food to its patrons, who queued up for the mixture of rice and South Indian curries, fried food and vegetables.Line Clear which first began operations in 1947, is run by a large family of cousins who take turns to operate the restaurant, and is patronised by both locals and tourists.The Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) said it took the action at 4am as the operator of the eatery was running the business without a licence this year.“The enforcement action is in line with the provisions under the Hawkers By-law 1979," the MPPP said in a statement.The MPPP added that it had issued a licence to a new operator following a decision made by the council on October 8, last year.Said to have begun from a makeshift pushcart stall in the 1950s, the Line Clear restaurant, was featured by celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, during his visit to Penang in 2012, in his television series.MPPP, which issues Back Lane Hawker Licences, had announced in June last year that it wanted to take action on the joint following a dispute between the cousins who claimed to have inherited the business from the founding family.When met by reporters later, operator Abdul Hamid Seeni Pakir questioned the MPPP’s move to raid the 24-hour restaurant, without issuing any notice.He said he would have been willing to address any issue had the council given notice beforehand.“I am very perplexed at the way this was conducted," he said.“Don’t you feel that this action is excessive?"He said the timing of the operation at 4am meant that the handful of staff working at that time were caught off guard. The MPPP enforcement crew took the chairs and tables away in a lorry.The restaurant hit the news in June when the family dispute between Abdul Hamid and his cousins Sahubarali China Mohd Hanibah, Abdul Latiff Thulkarunai and Pathumah Iskandar, who all claimed rights over the restaurant became public.The restaurant started as a makeshift stall by Seeni Pakeer along the alley which was then known as Lorong Jamban, because a public toilet is till today located at the end of the lane.It was later unofficially named as Lorong Seeni Pakeer Coffeeshop before being named N Aishah Nasi Kandar.and finally to Line Clear.The restaurant is also known for the tradition of the cashier hollering "line clear" after a customer has eaten and paid a meal. – January 19, 2015.
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