Sunday, July 16, 2006

Bollywood Veggies: Organic farm in the coutryside - Posted by Maggie

Yesterday Darin and I went on an adventure to the countryside in Singapore. We had to take a train for 40 minutes to get to Kranji, a rural town on the north side of the island. Once there, we still had to get a cab to Bollywood Veggie farm.
Our first cab driver said he had no clue where it was, even after we gave him the address. The second cab driver we asked said the first one lied. He just didn't want to take us there because he would have no passenger coming back. This, we have found out, is "taxi diplomacy". Drivers would pretend that they don't know where the destination is, and tell you to get out of the car!
Anyhow, the second cab driver was a lady, and she gladly took us right to the farm. Only 10 minutes from the station.
Bollywood veggies is a farm that groes organic fruits, vegetables and herbs on a lovely 10-acre farm run by nature lovers Mrs Ivy Singh-Lim and her husband, Mr Lim Ho Seng. We ate at the farm's restaurant "Poison Ivy Bistro" - they served very tasty dishes using produce straight from the farm!
I had the banana & coconut curry, and Darin had some lemongrass chicken and a dish that came with all sorts of things on it - about 70% of which were edible.
We had a fun time!

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