Now, let me just briefly talk about why I was in this factory visit trip.

One of my coursemate has organised this event called "A date with bloggers at Melaka 2012" and he invited me to join. I wasn't really attracted as I just visited Melaka on last November, until he told me that we will be having a visit to JULIE'S factory -- my all time favourite peanut butter sandwich cookies' "mama", and I decided to join him with the other bloggers..
I can still remember everytime when I was packing my stuff to go back to university, my mom will surely ask:" Mei Mei, you want to bring along Julie's with you?" and my answer will definitely: YES!!



Well, as a final year food-techer, I had the opportunity to visit many factory, including bread, packaging materials, oil mill, oil refinery, dairy products..... and yes i had many chances to ask on the technical, quality as well as processing of those factory. However, due to luck or whatsoever causes, those trip has never  let us really walk into their processing line, and JULIE'S is the first factory that I can really stand beside the cookies and watching the sandwiching process of my favourite cookies...

Logo on the building~~

A reliable company with HACCP certified, GMP, ISO 9001 and 22000, OHSAS as well as Halal Certification.

Julie's Factory was the first station of the trip and there were people come all around from different places, so for us who came from KL, have our seat in the meeting room and enjoyed some biscuits...

My new favourite -- Le-mond with lemond flavour~~

The trip started with an opening speech from the GM, followed by safety instructions and company briefing by the QA in charged and lastly by Miss Chiew Ling for the Corporate Social Responsibility - CSR project by Julie's... I was stunned by the "Share The Love" movement by Julie's where they really go down to the floor to show their appreciation to the forgotten groups. In addition, those programmes done by Julie's are really interesting. They had their own concert in the factory, they had fun with the citizens by baking kuih raya with them and send those cookies to the old folks home. They even helped out those victims in Thailand flood and their local distributers went to the flood area to share their love around.. *touched* <3<3


And now, for the processing line trip~~~ the part i loved the most~~~ (sorry, no photos!~)

First of all we are asked to put on face mask, hairnet, over coat as well as shoe cover... Alright, i didnt take any picture on how i dressed like because I can't even recognise myself (LOL)... followed HACCP and GMP standard, proper hand washing procedure before entering the plant, hand sanitizer and HOT!! The 30-year-old baking oven from the Netherlands is just functioning beside me while waiting for the others to join us.The whole factory area is well constructed.. well covered lamps, smooth corners, smooth flooring...

We were brief on how the major works are being done, and while walking along the processing line, the dough are sheeted and you can see from a very thin and tiny dough sheet, the cookies are baked into crispy-golden brown and being sandwiched with peanut butter.. (yummy~~)... People always say - you wont eat what you did, but after watching the processing of Julie's biscuits, I am very confident to consume their product ^^...

<3 <3 Share the Love <3 <3

Before I end this blog, I would like to thank Julie's Biscuits for providing us the chance to visit them~~ Nice factory~~ Thanks for all the gifts and lunch that Julie's Biscuits has provided to us as well as the tee shirt~~

KX and Me in Julie's T-shirt ^^