Liza's herb garden

THESE days when chef Liza Zainol wants fresh kaffir leaves, spring onion and cili padi for her kerabu dishes, she just plucks them from her herb garden, Galeri. Her four-month-old herb garden in Kampung Damai, Kuala Lumpur is just a stone’s throw away from her three-storey bungalow at Taman Tasik Indah, off Jalan Ipoh.

The half-acre herb garden is a culinary haven edged with 200 potted plants, long beans, four-angle beans, thyme, parsley, rosemary and 10 types of cili padi including a tiny purple-coloured, cherry-like chilli which comes all the way from Cuba.