5 ARTISANAL LOCAL BRANDS TO CHECK OUT AT GREEN-HOUSE 2024
GREEN-HOUSE 2024, Singapore’s first and largest immersive retail festival with a focus on sustainability, zeroes in on artisanal food and drink.
Happening from 13 to 14 July, GREEN-HOUSE 2024 is held across three curated zones within New Bahru at Kim Yam Road. This year’s festival features over 80 local and sustainable brands spanning food and fashion to home, beauty and lifestyle.
A special highlight is the Mercedes-Benz Kantine — a pioneering pop-up cafe in collaboration with gastrobar FURA that offers a glimpse into the future of food. The circular dining experience celebrates innovative sustainable practices by transforming locally sourced humble ingredients into extraordinary dishes through a plant-forward lens. With a limited lunch run through the weekend, seats are available by reservation only.
But if you’d rather walk the festival grounds, here are five food and drink brands that caught our eye at GREEN-HOUSE 2024:
Inspired by Borneans’ everyday hot sauce, commonly known as ‘Lada’, Borneo Hot Sauce works directly with farmers and plantations in Kunak, Borneo who harvest the elusive Momporok chilli. Due to how its grown naturally, the Momporok chilli is susceptible to weather and changes in season. The team at Borneo Hot Sauce helps provide sustainable income and job security to the farmers, while they cultivate chillies with traditional, time-honoured methods.
What results from the minimal intervention style of production is a spicier, more aromatic and flavourful chilli. Borneo Hot Sauce has four delightfully spicy condiments in their thoughtfully curated range. The newest one is Borneo Tuhau, which combines Momporok chilli with wild ginger that is grown under the green canopies of Borneo. Wild Ginger has deep cultural significance for Sabah’s indigenous Kadazan-Dusun people, and showcases a distinct earthy flavour, gingery heat and subtle tanginess. Borneo Tuhau made of wild ginger and chilli is the perfect accompaniment to chicken rice.
Noomoo—or no ‘moo’—is a Singaporean alternative dairy company built on a philosophy of “necessary reductionism”. In other words, they want to do good for the planet and their people by consuming fewer resources. Vegan or not, the plant-based milk category is soaring in Asia where we are a massive population of lactose intolerant folks. Noomoo’s signature “mylks” are Oat and Coconut and are non-GMO, cholesterol-free and contains no artificial flavourings and preservatives. The Coconut Mylk features the addition of pea protein isolate to keep it froth-friendly. The belief behind Noomoo’s innovation is to keep the product as natural and nutritionally beneficial as possible through picking simple, quality ingredients, so if you’re into plant-based milks that boast short ingredient lists, you’ve found Noomoo.
Delicious treats…that just happened to be keto-compliant? Jammy’s range of sugar-free and low-carb gelatos and granolas are the answer to your prayers for sweet treats that don’t quite hurt the waistline. Founded by sisters Jammy and Jacelyn who come from a family of foodies, every product is a labour of love made with intention and honesty. Find comforting flavours like Chocolate Hazelnut, Black Sesame and Roasted Pistachio Crunch, available in both pints and popsicles, or opt for their refreshing limited-edition Summer flavours such as Strawberry and Cashew Butter or Thai Coconut Gelato. It’s a great snack to chow down as you trawl through GREEN-HOUSE’s three zones. Take a shopping bag or two to load up on their popular gluten-free granolas from Sweet Cinnamon Cashew and Pecan, Hazelnut and Almond Cocoa, to Honey Sea “Salt” Macadamia.
Wind down with The Lily Yard, an artisanal Singaporean tea company that blends small batch teas in unique flavours. For full-bodied flavours and maximum nutrient absorption, these tea leaves are hand-picked from high mountains in Taiwan during the spring and winter seasons under strict agricultural standards. The Lily Yard only produces loose leaf tea to safeguard the natural benefits that would otherwise be lost when crushed in the tea bag-making process, while also eliminating the ingestion of harmful microscopic plastic particles commonly found in the polypropylene used to seal tea bags. Both casual consumers and tea enthusiasts can appreciate their easy-to-drink blends like the Alishan Osmanthus blend, made with the perfect ratio of Alishan oolong tea and osmanthus flowers or Vanilla Peach Jing Xuan, a fragrant, velvety blend of vanilla beans and sweet peaches, perfect for afternoon tea.
If you’re not into the hangover but still want a bit of a buzz, check out Jiggy, Singapore’s first naturally brewed hard seltzer with a tropical spin. Tired of beer bellies, wine refluxing and cocktail headaches, Jiggy was founded by four friends (whose initials together spell JIGI) who set out to create better boozy beverages. Jiggy was born out of the desire to create an alcoholic beverage that is low on sugar, calories and carbs, but high on flavour—and fun.
From zesty mango to refreshing pink pomelo, every can of Jiggy is taste-tested in Singapore and brewed in Cambodia. We particularly like their White Pear and Blackcurrant flavours which won gold and silver in Seltzers at the 2023 Asia Beer Awards.
GREEN-HOUSE runs on 13 and 14 July, 10am to 7pm, at New Bahru. For more information, visit https://pass-it-on.co/pages/green-house
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