Vitafoods Asia At Expo Wed 25 209 and Thursday 26 - oops - wong venue! Bag, chocolate tasting and horse placenta

Singapore flag.

Vitafoods Asia provided a day full of surprises. The first was even before I got there. Expo Singapore holds major events. So I trotted off to Expo MRT railway station, one stop away from Changi airport.

Upper Changi on the Singapore MRT downtown line.

Luckily, before exiting at Expo MRT, I asked at the station ticket office for the right way to exit. They asked, 'Which hall?'

I showed them my invitation.

Oh NO! My exhibition, Vitafoods Asia, was at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre exhibition hall at Marina Bay Sands The wonderful shopping and hotel and casino and tourism and conference complex was miles away, not minutes, miles.


Back along the MRT to Bayfront MRT station. About half an hour wasted on the MRT line going to the wrong place. Another half an hour going back.

The moral is, check the destination and MRT station in advance.

But I did. I had printed off my ticket. I had the MRT and location in my diary from weeks back. But I didn't look in my diary. I just looked at the ticket around my neck

The moral is, always check the MRT station and venue and hall on the day of travel.










Marina Bay Sands. Boats.

The Ashwagandha Bag
I arrived too late to get the free bag from Ashwagandha. Everybody seemed to be carrying the bag except me. Ashwagandha is an Indian product,a root extract, like ginseng to the Koreans and Chinese, ashwagandha is something the Indians swear by for health.









Meanwhile, I was in time to go to the tasting section which is a great idea for any exhibition.
All in one place, grouped toether are many of the foods, then the drinks. You vote for your favourite.
Then I want on around the show, looking for novelties.

What was new to me?
1 Giant mushrooms.
2 Soft cuddly toys to demonstrate bacteria in your gut, and nasty looking E-coli.
3 The firm which won the Queens Award to Industry
4 Red skinned ginger in coffee, making a hot drink in both senses of the word hot.

But the biggest surprise was:

Horse placenta
On one stand I stopped to chat about horse placenta.
I asked, "What is good about it?"
I was surprised by the answer:
"It's much better than pig's placenta."

As Peter Sellers said in the song, "Well, goodness, gracious me!"

The next day I went back to the show, the right place, on time, and got the free bag in which to carry all the samples and literature. Lots of gums containing vitamins.

But if you meet me and I am bouncing around, maybe it's because I was sucking on one of those yummy gummy vitamins.

I didn't get any horse placenta. Well, you can't have everything.

Maybe next time. Next year's show is 23rd and 24th September 2020. If you are looking to promote your product, find a distributor, source a service or select attractive packaging, this is the place to be promoting your product or service on a stand or go as a visitor. If you are not in the trade, never mind, just watch out for my informative and amusing blog post.

Useful Websites
https://www.vitafoodsasia.com/en/welcome.html

For next year's event in Europe, Geneva, Switzerland, May 12-14 2020,
see www.palexpo.ch
singaporeair.com

Horse Placenta ingredient supplier:
 www.jp-my.store

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.