A-Wan says she is half a "riceless cook", but since she has been farming, she hopes to take what is natural and use it naturally.

Her father was a farmer, A-wan has often heard him say since she was a child: people have no food without land, and her feelings for the land took root. When she was preparing to retire, she began to think about regaining farming and planting for herself.

Five or six years ago, she and her friends rented a field in Yuen Long and figured out what to plant. After opening up the land, a friend spread a handful of sage to plant the field, which later grew tall and started to produce flowers. Friends don't have to take care of it, and it grows lushly. Everyday when Ah-wan goes to plant a field, she will admire its beautiful leaf shape and fragrant fragrance. Going to the field is like admiring flowers, but she has not yet discovered its edible value.

It wasn’t until she participated in the Home-trepreneur Women’s Micro-Entrepreneurship Program that she started to want to use crops as ingredients and started noticing this sage again. Basil, an annual herb, has medicinal properties, can boil water to ward off colds; just like eating crabs will also put a piece or two under steam. Ah Wan likes the taste of tempeh and thinks it goes well with the sweetness of shiitake. She created the shiitake bean sauce without referring to outside recipes.

“At first, the soybean flavor was heavier, but later I wanted to highlight the farmer-grown basil,” Awan said, adding that she prepared almost 30 bottles of sauces with different flavors, constantly calculating and blending the ratio between scallion and bean curd, and the balance with ginger, onion, garlic and oil flavors. She emphasized that although the sauce has soy sauce, the product is not strong at all and "completely tastes like nature."

"I love this land (Hong Kong)," A-wan can't help but feel when she sees the city changing. She feels that the city has changed too much, especially after planting, the scarcity of nature and the fate of development will make her constantly reflect on the land she is living in. And her feelings for the land, she also practiced in her life——

Because the road was long and the miscellaneous tasks of farming were many, the farmers who had farmed with Awan in the past had all left, leaving her alone. But she didn't want to give up because "I don't miss the land." She discovered that there are still many things in nature that can be eaten or used, and that when you get to the fields, you can feel life very plainly. This kind of life "I hope to keep as much as I can keep."

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