A short Visit To A Soya Sauce And Taucu Factory, Gopeng

Sometime in September this year, we had visitors from Hong Kong and Seremban (south of Kuala Lumpur). Hubby and I were recruited to play tour guides to these friends because they wanted to visit the areas around Gopeng and Lawan Kuda. After visiting the Gaharu Tea Valley, we were on our way to Lawan Kuda for lunch. We happened to pass by this soya sauce factory in Gopeng. This was a great opportunity to stop and visit because except for my hubby, none of us have been here before.

This is a family owned soya sauce factory.

Everything is done in the old traditional method.

Snapshots of newspaper cuttings of articles written on this factory.

Featured both in English and Chinese newspapers.

Price list on the wall.

Open air drying of the soya beans under the sun.

Every morning the glazed pots will be uncovered for the sunning process.

For those of us who are so used to modern methods, we might be wary of this primitive method of soya sauce production.

The pots of beans are placed in rows in front of the small factory.

Some pots were covered and some uncovered.

This is how the beans look like in the early stage. 

They are placed in a single row.

After sunning, the beans turned to this dark colour.

The sunning process continues.

The storage bottles and caps are left to dry in the open.

We thanked the owners for the visit and we left without buying anything.

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Then we drove on to Lawan Kuda for our lunch.

Steamed tofu topped with crispy fried garlic and dried prawns.

Paku Pakis stir fried with spicy sambal paste.

We ordered snakehead fish (san yu).

The meat cooked "koon poh" style with dried chilies, onions, and sauce.

The bony parts cooked in soup with herbs and Chinese cooking wine.

After lunch, we walked across the road to this Cendol stall by the roadside to enjoy a bowl of sweet dessert with ice shaving.

Tourists from far and near.

Then we drove to the neighbouring Kopisan village for our tourists to take some snapshots of the wall murals. 

These murals are painted on the back walls of the row of shops.

The name of the village is Kopisan meaning Coffee Hill.

These days, we don't see any coffee plants.

Here ended our half day tour in Gopeng and Lawan Kuda.

But the good man - what a different story!

For the good man - the blameless, the upright, the man of peace -

he has a wonderful future ahead of him.

for him there is a happy ending.

(Psalm 37:37, The Living Bible-TLB)