Touring Kuala Lumpur - Day #2

My boss and I decided to do a half day sightseeing and have a nice seafood dinner. We actually planned to covered 2 places but we only managed to cover 1 place + a dinner. Really free and easy eh~

Royal Selangor Pewter Visitor Center 

The Royal Selangor Pewter Visitor Center is built on the extension of the existing Royal Selangor Pewter factory in Setapak. This factory produces the pewter for all the outlets around the world, as far as London, UK and Toronto, Canada. In short, the only Royal Selangor Pewter factory in the world. 

We were welcomed with the World Largest Pewter Tankard... 

World Largest 

A guide was assigned to explain the history of Royal Selangor Pewter and she brought us around the Royal Selangor Pewter... The Royal Selangor Pewter was founded by a Chinese migrant on 1885 and he settled down in Kuala Lumpur, the town with Tin. The whole session was informative and good for kids to learn about Pewter. 

As we finishing the visitor center, we don't have time to head over to the National Mosque, we ended up skipping the National Mosque and proceed to Port Klang for seafood.

Bagan Hailam
My colleague and I have chosen Bagan Hailam to have our seafood dinner.  Journey from Royal Selangor Pewter took around 1hr via DUKE and NKVE.

Bagan Hailam seafood restaurant was located at North Port of Port Klang, we ordered three dishes for 4 adult and 1 children.

• Sweet and Sour Crab 
• Steam Prawn
• Assam Stingray fish

Steam Prawn

Sweet n Sour Crab

The food was yummy~ and every was so satisfied.

Before sending them back to the hotel, i brought them over to have a quick tour to see OLD KL at night... "It looks different, the building looks nice" said my boss~

It was a 1.5 days tiring tour around but it was fun to host people in my lovely metropolitan Kuala Lumpur... 

On Visiting Salzburg in Austria

Can anyone tell me what is the two most popular things / attractions that people would not miss when they visit Salzburg in Austria? Let me give you some clues...

Clue #1

The Famous Composer's Violin

Clue #2 : Click on this
So now any idea what is the two most popular things to do in Salzburg?

The Heineken Experience

Beer tap connecting the brewer

Not sure you still remember i posted two posts regarding What is this for? and What about this?... These are the parts and pieces of the brewing tools which you can find them in the brewery.

Some readers have guessed the knots/tap are for getting beer. They are absolutely correct about the tap but to be specific, it's getting the beer for testing from the brewer. Each of the beer tap is connected to the different brewer. 

This is the brewer that all the beer ingredient are mixed and cooked in certain temperature before letting the yeast its work... which is the fragmentation process.

The Heineken Experience is located inside the old Heineken Brewery building. This Heineken Experience can be consider as the Museum of Heineken. They have placed lots of artifacts and the stories about how the Heineken beer empire was built. The first part of the museum was telling the stories... blah blah blah




So now let's the experience continue and we gotta see the real things instead of listening to the stories...

Before we went into the brewing site... we were brief  by a person on what is the main ingredient of a Heineken Beer... Anybody wanna guess?

Ingredient to make Heineken Beer

As we walked into the big hall, we saw big brewer lining up in the hall.. All the ingredient were placed into the brewers ... which you can see the brewery house.

the manufacturing line - Brewing Beer

The journey continued with how to appreciate the freshly brewed Heineken Beer... There is a stars shape bar which the bartenders will provide us a small glass of Heineken Beer for appreciating and tasting. I learn quite a bit from the session. The knowledge of why beer need to have a white foam covered it... etc

the stars shape bar

Glass of Heineken Beer for tasting

Next,  the advertisement watching... they projected all different advertisement from around the world in different languages. I never saw most of the advertisement... It's awesome!!! So creative~ Besides the advertisement, Heineken as the company has created some games, merchandise as its brand... including bottle your own beer.

Advertisement watching - Advertisement from the globe

game room

Last but not least... It's Booze Booze time. Each person gets two 1/2 pints of freshly brewed Heineken Beer in exchange with the buttons from the given bracelet when we bought the ticket.  YES! the ticket included the free drink of Beer. But it's a bit of disappointment here as i thought it would be ALL YOU CAN DRINK *wink*

button for free beer

We stayed in the drinking bar until we finished the two 1/2 pints. The surrounding and environment is cool as the music makes the bar likes a nice hangout pub in town. 

So if you happen to be in Amsterdam, do not missed the Heineken Experience eh~

Heineken Experience  @ Heineken Brewery

That's all folks... i have gained the Heineken Experience. Should I include those experience into my resume?

Cellini Salt Cellar

If you have read my earlier post regarding Historical Artifact created by Benvenuto. Are you able to guess what is this historical artifact used for?

Cellini Salt Cellar front view

It's a Salt Cellar on the dining table. Yes it's a very beautiful piece of art sculpture created by Benvenuto Cellini in 1543. There are two sculptures Male and Female. The Male sculpture represent the sea and the Female sculpture represents the earth.

Let's have a 360 view of the Salt Cellar... Can you see the detail on the sculpture itself?

Cellini Salt Cellar - Side View

Another Side view... How about the sculpture in the house, look at how define is the sculpture.

Cellini Salt Cellar - Side View

Okay let's turn around and see the other side of the view... which i considered the back view of the Salt Cellar. Can you see those sculpture beneath the bowl?

Cellini Salt Cellar - Behind View

Do you know where would the salt being placed in this Salt Cellar? If you guess the bowl... You are right! The salt was placed in the bowl beside the male sculpture.

So, what do you think about the Cellini Salt Cellar?

Historical Artifact created by Benvenuto

This golden attractive artifact was placed in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. And this is the main icon of the museum i.e. they advertise this artifact as part of the attraction in the museum. I got the opportunity to view this when i was in Vienna.

Artifact created in 1543

So, what was this item used for?

ps: i will review the answer in next two days :)