21 December 2009
;17:31"Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out; where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs." //Margaret Atwood
so because our parents decided that we were not going overseas this year, they decided to bring us on a local day-tour instead. hahaha, ohmy I haven't been on a day-tour in years and years lah, I think the last time was in secondary school when we went to a chinese exhibition about tea? my parents having our breakfast before we get onto the bus and my bus mate for the day, my second sister! I think we were already the oldest kids on the bus lah, everyone else was like in primary school or kindergarten haha.
first stop was tassler's salmon factory and warehouse somewhere in woodlands! the salmon here is really cheap apparently and it's fresh! there's a really strong fish smell the moment you get off the bus and go near the factory.
defrosting, deboning, slicing and breading to make breaded salmon! racks of salmon! it wasn't as much fun as I thought at the salmon factory since their main job is to defrost salmon that was caught overseas. I thought there would be some real life salmon swimming around in a pond for us to see :(
us outside tassler's!
then the next stop was the bird nest's warehouse! unfortunately, we couldn't go into the factory because of H1N1 precautions. but the guy giving the bird's nest presentation was quite interesting haha.
blood's bird nest! the reason that the bird's nest is dark red in colour is because of the swiftlet's diet that causes its saliva to be red. apparently, there's a story that the bird's nest is red because the bird worked so hard to build the nest that it vomitted blood haha!
after lunch, we headed to the organic farm!
they sell edible cactuses at the organic farm market!
mushroooooms!
us inside the mushroom tent! the only thing that wasn't so great about the day tour was that most of the time was spent buying the things they offer at each stop instead of the actual touring of the location can.
last stop was the gardenia bread factory! this was actually the best part of the tour because we got to tour the factory and they gave us loads of free bread at the end! but sadly, we weren't allowed to take any pictures inside the factory. they have a damn cool bread cooler that can cool up to 8,000 loaves of bread at one time! haha, I didn't know day-tours can be so much fun lah!
"Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out; where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs." //Margaret Atwood
so because our parents decided that we were not going overseas this year, they decided to bring us on a local day-tour instead. hahaha, ohmy I haven't been on a day-tour in years and years lah, I think the last time was in secondary school when we went to a chinese exhibition about tea? my parents having our breakfast before we get onto the bus and my bus mate for the day, my second sister! I think we were already the oldest kids on the bus lah, everyone else was like in primary school or kindergarten haha.
first stop was tassler's salmon factory and warehouse somewhere in woodlands! the salmon here is really cheap apparently and it's fresh! there's a really strong fish smell the moment you get off the bus and go near the factory.
defrosting, deboning, slicing and breading to make breaded salmon! racks of salmon! it wasn't as much fun as I thought at the salmon factory since their main job is to defrost salmon that was caught overseas. I thought there would be some real life salmon swimming around in a pond for us to see :(
us outside tassler's!
then the next stop was the bird nest's warehouse! unfortunately, we couldn't go into the factory because of H1N1 precautions. but the guy giving the bird's nest presentation was quite interesting haha.
blood's bird nest! the reason that the bird's nest is dark red in colour is because of the swiftlet's diet that causes its saliva to be red. apparently, there's a story that the bird's nest is red because the bird worked so hard to build the nest that it vomitted blood haha!
after lunch, we headed to the organic farm!
they sell edible cactuses at the organic farm market!
mushroooooms!
us inside the mushroom tent! the only thing that wasn't so great about the day tour was that most of the time was spent buying the things they offer at each stop instead of the actual touring of the location can.
last stop was the gardenia bread factory! this was actually the best part of the tour because we got to tour the factory and they gave us loads of free bread at the end! but sadly, we weren't allowed to take any pictures inside the factory. they have a damn cool bread cooler that can cool up to 8,000 loaves of bread at one time! haha, I didn't know day-tours can be so much fun lah!
