Bollywood Veggie

While making a documentary for Channel News Asia, my friend met the owner of a local farm, Ivy Singh-Lim.(http://www.bollywoodveggies.com) Her story on how she and her husband went about venturing into this was rather interesting. My friend liked the place so much that he organised a trip down to the farm on sunday for his few urban friends (3 girls, one boy & me).

The location was somewhere in Kranji, we have to wait 25 mins at Kranji mrt stn for the only bus that would take us in right to its doorstep, 925.

Although it was 10am, the sun was brutal and scorching. The girls happily paraded with their umbrellas, while I started my shutter spree.


Damn, the only things I know abt veggies are; they are green and leafy... as for their names, forget it. I was like walking around "Yah yah, I ate this before, that one too..."

Farmers hard at work.....

No idea what this is, kinda looks like chilli right?

There were many planks/pieces of wood around the farm, they were used for things like signages, walkway, stumps for sitting, etc. The owners felt that Singaporeans were throwing away too much wood, so they will often salvage whatever they can and bring it back to the farm to recycle it.

There's quite a nice lotus pond at the end of the farm, I think I also saw some koi or similar fishes in the pond. Managed to spot several kind of uncommon birds, yellow, blue.... oh what do u call a blue bird in hokkien? heh heh.....


One of my friend who arrived later, happened to lived in a big house with her grandma. Her grandma planted many similar plants including those that most of us have not heard abt. So she gave us some 'tour guiding' as we continued to walk ard. Noni fruit? Supposedly very good for your body but taste horrible!

After trotting ard for a while, we headed back to the guest house for lunch.

And passed by this beautiful maze of plants.

The lunch wasn't great, we had omelette (taste bland), chicken curry (too oily), veggie curry (too diluted), Kangkong (also bland) and spring rolls (this is yummy) with rice. But at least the dessert was good, we had banana fritters with sesame (solid yummy) and some kuehs (soft and tasty) and banana cake (moist, fluffly and tasty). Click on the following photo and check out the amount of oil in the chicken curry....

The place was crowded when we left, probably a lot of sua kus like me who wants to kaypoh and see how a farm is like. Bet most of them haven't got a clue what a Noni fruit is too. :)