18-05-2025
Sabah students create meat floss from fish scale
Thiery (left) and Danish showing their product.
KOTA KINABALU (May 18): A group of students from Keningau Vocational College (KVC) has been crowned the overall champion of the Greenovate 2025 competition in the regenerative design category for the secondary school group, with their food innovation called 'Serusik'. This international online competition was organized by the Hong-Kong based Asia Pacific Children and Youth Talent Association and it was divided into two main categories: artistic design and regenerative design.
Its main goal is to encourage ideation that helps protect the environment. The official results were announced on May 16, 2025, on its website: The team consists of five students from the Culinary Arts program, two second-year students, Thiery Christian and Danish Asyraf, and three final-year students, Danial Jauhari Sidar, Faiz Asmaan Hamizan and Iqwan Qhairi Naidu who are currently undergoing interning in the industry.
They created a type of meat floss locally known as serunding made from fish scale waste which has received positive feedback from the local community. They have also successfully sold the product and made a profit.
The idea came about when they realized that fish scales are a common waste in food preparation and these tiny scales are often problematic in kitchens due to their strong fishy smell, fine texture, and sliminess which makes them difficult to clean and they tend to clog drains and pipes.
This project is one of the college's initiatives to venture into social entrepreneurship by recycling and reusing waste materials to turn them into marketable products.
The project was also the winner of the Reimagine Waste competition organized by Catalyst of Change ASEAN several months ago.
The college director, Lumang Anak Lang, congratulated the team for their dedication in applying their culinary skills to develop an innovation that not only has commercial potential but also addresses environmental issues.
He stated that such success is in line with the educational goals of vocational colleges under the Ministry of Education with the target of producing entrepreneurs among the graduates.
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