From Our Backyard: This forager wants you to appreciate Singapore’s edible plants – including weeds

Apart from being part of the Singapore Biennale 2016, it had been also exhibited on the National Museum associated with Singapore. The artists also conducted tours with tastings plus maps featuring native plants, fruits and herbs.

“After that experience, I actually couldn’t look at vegetation the same way once again, ” she remembered. “So, I started to grow some of them. ”

Along with Chua, Lita furthermore co-founded Gastrogeography of Singapore (GOS), a food experience initiative focused on introducing, plus reminding people to prefer the things that are “growing in our own backyard”.

As such, she’s at all times experimenting with new quality recipes using local plant life, in order to conduct cooking food classes where the lady teaches how to make torch ginger pesto, laksa pesto, botanical mixed drinks and cempedak cake.

Some of the edible plants in her yard include local fresh fruit trees, such as rose apples, starfruit plus papaya.