Factory Tour -Fassler Salmon Factory

To all Chinese, I wish you a very happy Chinese New Year! I am now very busy writing textbooks and educational materials for the US markets so please accept my apologies for the slower post.

This post aims to change the status of Fassler Salmon Factory from the warehouse category to educational and factory category.

For the past one year, the boss Martin and his Ops director Bruno has through their thorough and engaging tour open up many people eyes in the world of Salmon and Sashimi.

The tour will encompass several stations.

1) Descaling station

2) Salting Station

3) Deboning station (Kids can try to see how the seemingly effortless job requires lots of skills)

4) Smoking station (Learn smoke are produced without fire)

5) Slicing station (Kids learn how Fassler satisfy fussy chefs using hand slice and general market using machine slice)

6) Food tasting station (Depending on the mood of the boss, you may get a taste of the raw sashimi free!)

7) Packaging station (This include seeing how mushroom, lobster soups are cooked in huge kitchen and packed)

8) Freezer Tour (Warning! Kids go wild in this place. Experience -14 Degree Celsius environment in Singapore! )

9) Buying - Buy anything you fancy!

This tour is classified under warehouse tours.

If you need transportation services to visit this place, please refer to our product listing page.

You can also purchase a list of Top 40 Must Visit Places in Singapore with Sample Itineraries at the Donation/Payment Details page.

Factory Tour - Coffee Factory

Singaporeans and the world at large love their coffee, at least I do. Many of us survive through the day with not a few cups of coffee. Do you know that Singapore has her own coffee powder factories? Do you know that different coffee powders, different ingredients and different type of grinding are used for coffee powder used in Starbucks and coffeeshop?

Recently, I was invited to a coffee factory to learn about coffee manufacturing process. From adding of maize, butter and sugar to coffee bean, to the baking process to the cooling process, to the grinding process and to learning how to identify the readiness of the baking from the smoke, it is really an eye opener.

 It is a not an easy environment to survive as the heat from the cooked coffee beans spread quickly once they are poured onto the mixer. Through out the factory, you can find large trumpet like structure to suck hot air out of the factory.

This tour will enables coffee drinkers a greater appreciation of the effort, time and ingredients that went into making your favorite cup of coffee!

I will classify this place as part of factory and educational tour.

If you need transportation services to visit this place, please refer to our product listing page.

You can also purchase a list of Top 40 Must Visit Places in Singapore with Sample Itineraries at the Donation/Payment Details page.

Educational Tour - Wan Qing Yuan

Wan Qing Yuan was a place where Dr Sun Yat Sen stayed when he setted up Tong Men Hui in Singapore.

If you are like me, with no clue on the important role Dr Sun Yat Sen played in the modern day Chinese revolution from old Imperial culture or his role in WWII effort (maybe I should include this place as part of WWII series too!) against Japanese in China and Wan Qing Yuan colourfull history, you should visit Wan Qing Yuan.

Situated along Ah Hood road, it has recently been renovated and is again opened to public.

Inside the museum you will learn about the history of China revolution, WWII, various effort undertook by Dr Sun in finding Nationalist China, his role in Xinhai revolution.

Apart from the nice exhibits and the peaceful garden (now that the free entrance is over...I guess it will be peaceful once more), one thing that stick with me is the revolutionary wait for putting 3 timeline for the same event in different locations together.

 It is easier to observe how events in different location can advance either independently or dependently of each other. During a time where Telegram is the main mode of communication, we can already see time is of the essence and feel the urgency of the situation.

Other exhibits that stick to me are the newspaper clipping. It shows case the importance of newspaper media and how life must still go on despite the war. Just that instead of headline news on dead bodies at Bedok Reservoir, it will be how many sailors or warships were sunk in the Straits of Malacca.

I will classify this place as part of educational tour.

If you need transportation services to visit this place, please refer to our product listing page.


You can also purchase a list of Top 40 Must Visit Places in Singapore with Sample Itineraries at the Donation/Payment Details page.