This July, come celebrate the Singapore Food Festival at Bollywood Veggies. Be transported back in time in the Kranji Countryside and learn how our little island coped with food scarcity during the Japanese Occupation. Discover little known facts about the resilience and adaptability of people faced with limited resources in post-war Singapore, and see how hunger and the need for food became a catalyst for culinary ingenuity.

Here’s what in store on Sunday 16 July:

- Guided Farm Tour on Wartime Plants (10.30 am to 11.15 am) led by Dr Antony Hopkin, our senior guide and voluntary education consultant

- Wartime Cooking Demo (11.15 am to 12.15 pm) led by Mary Ho, our Good Food Warrior and macrobiotics & whole foods expert

Both activities are suitable for anyone who is 13 and up.

What to bring?

- Wear comfortable clothes and shoes suitable for walking

- Insect repellent, water bottle, umbrella, hat, sunglasses

- Eventbrite e-ticket booking (a softcopy will do)

How do I get to Bollywood Veggies?

You can take the Kranji Countryside Express Bus from Kranji MRT (return trip $3/adult and $1/child or senior citizen). Please refer to the bus schedule at https://goo.gl/ZHRS8N

WARRIOR PROFILES

Dr Antony Hopkin is Bollywood Veggies’ voluntary education consultant and senior guide. He is more affectionately known as Uncle Tony, and is a former academic with degrees in history and comparative education and extensive international experience. An active octogenarian, the Second World War remains vivid in his memory and continues to fuel his interest in the way people in Singapore coped with wartime shortages, just as his own family experienced during the war. Uncle Tony is a treasure trove of botany fun facts and hopes to use his knowledge to increase awareness about the importance of plants and their impact on people.

Mary Ho is Bollywood Veggies’ Good Food Warrior. A Macrobiotics alumna at Kushi Institute in Amsterdam, she conducts regular macrobiotics and whole foods cooking classes in Singapore and overseas, in exciting gastronomic hubs like Shanghai, Manila, and most recently, Jerusalem. Her love and passion to promote whole foods led her to co-organise the Green Cook-off in 2016, Singapore’s first whole foods cooking contest. Besides being a star in the world of healthy cooking she is also a lymph drainage and cranio-sacral therapist, and in her spare time enjoys solo travelling in search of food adventures.