Farm Tour :- Prawn Fishing

This is not a farm tour per se. It is prawn fishing in Punggol Marina Country Club. Recently, I was invited to have a tour of Punggol Marina Country Club and to introduce it as one of the venue for visitation.

The thing that caught my attention is the large prawn fishing ground available. They charge a rate of $15 for first hour, $25 for second hour and $30 for three hour. As far as I can understand, once the prawn are caught, you could BBQ it over the pit (no rental charge, but need to pay BBQ start up kit-$2).

Apart from Prawn fishing, there are water sports such as water jet, take a boat ride around Singapore, Karaoke and other stuff.

I am not technically correct in putting this under farm tour. However, a prawn traditionally are grown in farms, I shall put it under farm tour.

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Farm Tour - Oh Chin Huat Hydoponics Farm

Ever wonder how vegetables are grown before reaching your favorite super market? Come join the guided vegetable tour!

Learn how the various stages of how your favorite vegetables are grown. The processes in general are seeding, nursery stage, sorting stage, adult stage, harvesting stage and lastly packaging stage. In this guided tour, you will learn the details of the above-mentioned stages.

In additional, visit the cold room at 0 to 4 degree Celsius and see how the farm produces are stored. Also see how onions are sorted base on quality and size.

At the end of the guided tour, learn how to grow your own plants using the hydroponics method followed by a simple question and answer session, those who got the answer right will walk away with some potted plants!

Before leaving the farm, pay a visit to their shop and buy some fresh produce, compost, gardening equipment, etc.

This tour will be classified as part of farm tour and educational tour.

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181 Seafood

This place is quite crude to my taste. This is a live seafood center. Whatever seafood that fancy you are purchase as fresh as you can imagine (fresher than NTUC). The seafood is slaughtered live before your very eyes.

The fishes or frogs are mostly hammered to death before being slice and skin (or vice versa). This place is full of blood and gore. I have visited it when I am a small kid. 10 Years later the image is still retained. Unfortunately (Fortunately to some), nothing has changed 10 years on.

Apart from viewing life eels, groupers and the aunty hammering skill, witness how a few thousands frogs live together and their stuggle to get out. Either physically by building a living ramp or by having sex constantly...

This place will be placed as part of Farm Tour

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Kelong Tour Updates

Have anyone heard of Linzhi "Po Pi Bao Zhi Fen"? I am given two boxes of such powder free of charge. I am told that this is supposed to be a great but expensive tonic. Being a greedy pig that I am, I start taking them immediately. However, there is a curious side effect...I keep having to "LS" at night (LS is diarrhea) but feeling very good during day time. Weird!

Anyway, I have revisited the Kelong the other day and the Lady Boss has kindly shown the group several interesting stuff! This is an update post from the original Kelong Tour article.

During the tour, we saw how the fishes upload at Changi Point is monopolized by a family (down with cartel I say) of trader.

Cartel is bad because fishes by local fishermen or Kelongs are force to sell to this Cartel at a ridiculously low price but at sell to the logistic or other middleman at twice the price, who sold to the restaurant at twice the price and then to us at twice the price again!

A fish sold by the fisherman for say 16 dollars could become 64 dollars by the time it reaches us!

After viewing the upload, we went to the Kelong and witness the feeding session for Cobia and Tiger Grouper. Oh there are lobsters in the Kelong too...but it seems that lobster feeds on the crap that flow around in the sea and do not need feeding (they are omnivorous scavengers...same as Cockroaches).

After the feeding session, climb up onto the Kelong to witness how the nets are lower and rise. On a good night the high power lamp is able to attract up to 800 kg of fishes. These fishes are then used to feed the fishes in the fish farm. On a bad night, the lowest record is 8 kg.

After the tour, enjoy a good meal of Nasi Lemak and Otah (from this otah factory) and drinks before leaving the Kelong to Singapore.

This Kelong tour will be categorised under both educational tours and Farm/Nursery tours.

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Farm Tour - Hay Dairy

I am back after suffering a serious bout of food poisoning...anyone misses me?

Hay Dairy is the only goat farm in Singapore. The milk are not sold through retails, rather it is by direct delivery. This ensures that only the freshest milk is delivered to you...just like old times.

Visit Hay Dairy only in the morning. In the morning, the farmers will milk the goat and will give a detailed explanation of the type of goats, the advantage of goat milk vs cow milk, etc. During the explanation, see how the milking process is carried out.

As a quick introduction, goat milk differs from cow milk in the following way:-

1) Goat milk is alkaline while cow milk is acidic (Goat milk is good for those with gastric)

2) Goat milk has less lactose compare to Cow (suitable for those with lactose intolerance)

3) In Chinese medicine, Goat milk is cool effect while cow milk is heaty effect (If you do not understand what I am talking about, never mind)

Due to HSA restriction, feeding of Goat is NOT allowed.

Oh a last trivia, there is only 1 male goat to satisfied the hundreds of female goat there (the goats need to be pregnant to produce milk)....Chew on that guys!

Booking is required and there is a entrance fee of $3 per person. Contact us for more info.

This tour will be classified under both Farm Tours and Educational Tours
 
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