About us. What this is.
We’re Farah and Finn, writing from Ireland. Plant-based Malaysian cooking, honest product reviews, and home projects. We share things only once we’ve actually used them.
Jungle Hugger is the site we share between us. Not full-time. Not for a living. Built slowly between the day jobs, because the questions kept turning up at home and the answers online weren’t great.
Plant-based Malaysian cooking from Farah, written in the kitchen she actually cooks in. Honest product reviews and home projects from Finn: the things that survived, the things that didn’t, the money saved when something worked and the money lost when it didn’t. No sponsorships we wouldn’t pass on to friends. No reviews of things we haven’t put hours into.
The pond below is one of those projects. It started as “we want frogs back”, turned into six months of digging, and is now the quietest thing in the garden.
Six months of digging. Now the quietest thing in the garden.
Two of us. Different jobs, same kitchen.
Farah
Founder · Farah’s FoodsFarah grew up in Malaysia, eats almost entirely plant-based now, and writes recipes the way she actually cooks them: by feel, with notes added when a step nearly went wrong. The Malaysian flavours are the heart of Farah’s Foods. The plant-based bit is decision, not ideology.
Engineer by training and trade, currently in the energy industry. Recipes get tested on the home kitchen, the camera, and the audience on YouTube before anything ships here.
Finn
Founder · Green Living & InsightsFinn writes most of the product reviews and home projects. The standard is the one we use ourselves: a thing has to actually last, work well over months of real use, and pull more than its weight against the alternative. Things fail here often.
Seafarer by trade, offshore weeks of every month, also in the energy industry. The job pays for the patience the reviews take, and sharpens the eye for things made well versus things made to ship.
“We share what we’d recommend to a friend. Nothing more.”
Farah & FinnWhat you’ll find here. Three places to start.
Three sides of the same house.
Honest product reviews
Long-form reviews of the things we use day to day. Cookware, kitchen tools, home and garden kit. Each piece tested over weeks or months. Affiliate links where they apply, never the deciding factor.
Green Living → 02Slower thinking, written down
Essays and longer reads on waste, quality, intentional consumption, and the small home choices that compound. Where the work behind a review goes when it doesn’t fit a review.
Insights → 03Plant-based Malaysian cooking
Farah’s recipes, written for the home kitchen. Heat-balanced sambals, rice that turns out right, broths that take their time. Plant-based as default, never as the point.
Farah’s Foods →