Warehouse Tour - Malaysia and Japan Exploratory warehouse

It has been some time since I have posted. Well, it can be tough finding new places run by real local entrepreneurs to open up their location for tourist for various reasons.

My purpose of this blog is not really to highlight well-known (I do blog about such places, regardless) but to educate the entrepreneurs the wisdom of opening up and be given not just free advertisement for their goods and services but even be paid while at the same time advertising their products and or services.

This post will be about a new concept store where in collaboration with the Malaysia and Japan authoritativeness, this concept warehouse allows small and medium enterprises to showcase their products in Singapore for a few months.

This allows the different brands to gauge the preference of Singaporeans and hopefully they may be able to re-export their products to the rest of the world through Singapore.

 It may be a surprise to some, given Singapore excellent reputation in food safety, honesty in business dealing and strong judiciary system, product widely used and re-export product enjoy a certain brand premium in many other countries.

The products in the warehouse range from household products to food (such as chips, ice cream, coffee and snack, etc) to even Art pieces. They will only be in Singapore for a short while so everything you buy will be unique or even limited collection!!

This location will be classified under warehouse series.

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.

Random Place I have seen - Pulau Semakau Landfill

It has been two months since I have last posted. As some of my loyal readers know, Chinese New Year (CNY) shopping tour always takes up all my time. Well now that CNY shopping season is over, I am back! As promise in my previous post, a quick write up on Pulau Semakau Landfill.

Pulau Semakau Landfill is an offshore landfill using a membrane to carve out a section of the sea using Pulau Semakau as anchor. The landfill is separated into two phase and phase one is rapidly being filled up with ashes from waste incinerators in Singapore. The landfill is planned to last till 2045 and there seem to be no official words on the plan afterwards. So please practice the 3 R - Reuse, Recycle and Reduce wastage if possible!

Currently, through application, the public is allowed to visit the island for educational purpose, tracking along the tide lines and for star gazing.

I have attended an educational trip that show us the video on the life cycle of waste and the construction of Pulau Semakau at their visitor center, follow by a visit to the waste receiving center (Since it is all ash, there is very little or no smell at all) and a tour around the different part of the island using a mini-bus.

As the Pulau Semakau is not easily accessible, I will classify it under random places I havebeen. 

Educational Tour - Tai Hua Soya Sauce

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to make use of this post to wish all of my readers a Happy New Year in 2013 and May all your wishes come through!

I am sorry for the slower post as I am now writing a Chinese Workbook as part of my job as an author and it is taking up a lion share of my time. I hope this post on Soya Sauce make up for delay in my post. 

This post is about the making of Soya Sauce. In this post, I am introducing Tai Hua Soya Sauce. A vital ingredient during Chinese New Year (I have an old link that link most of the CNY locations together, you can take a look at it here.), many mothers and wives in Singapore will surely find this post interesting.

Tai Hua foodstuff has a long history in Singapore. It is one of the few Soya Sauce Factories in Singapore. The other sauce factory which I frequently visit is the Kwong Cheong Thye factory. The difference is that Tai Hua allows visitor to view the Clay vessels that they used to ferment the Soya bean into Soya Sauce.

I find it simply amazing because in land scare Singapore, it is still possible to find a business owner willing to sacrifice a large plot of land to use the traditional method in making Soya Sauce. 

In the traditional way, the clay vessel being semi permeable allow the exchange of gas, while the sunlight which only warm up the top of the vessel (believe it or not, even after whole day in the sun light, the lower part of the vessel remains cool), set up a natural convection current to circulate the liquid. No artificial or additional handling is required except for the occasional stirring of the beans not the whole vessel. The temperature also allows the yeast to do their magic.

On average the Soya beans are allowed to ferment for six months before collection for bottling. Higher grade sauces are allow to ferment for longer time. There are records of sauce that are allowed to rest for 6 centuries! (Oversea Soya Sauce)

In our modern context, instead of using Sun light, a lot of time artificial heating and mechanical stirring are used. This allow for mass production in a smaller area which lower the production cost.

After going through the making of sauce, we are allowed to take a taste of the sauce straight from the vessel! You cannot imagine the amazing taste that roll around the tongue!

To me, what I find amazing is that the vessels resemble the Soya Vessel that we see in many Korean Dramas...simply AMAZING!

My next post will also be interesting. It will be about the Semakau Landfill!

This tour will be classified under Educational Tours and 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.