Bentong Organic Ginger

Country of Origin: Bentong, Malaysia

Although Bentong’s ginger name has “Bentong” in its name, but a good Bentong’s ginger is produce at Bukit Tinggi. Compare to normal ginger, is thinner but the level of spiciness is higher and is actually named the “King of Ginger”, and price wise it can 4 or 5 times higher.

Bentong’s ginger is only suitable to grow at the place which is not polluted, cooling air at the mountain, supported by the natural water from the mountain. The farmer said the process of growing is important, you can’t give too much water, can’t be too dry or wet. At Bukit Tinggi, the fear is about logging the water into it. Due to the color is darker compare to other ginger, the nutrition level is better.

The farmer said that the ginger here is spicier than the normal because of the land, a ginger has to grow on the ground for 7 months to absorb the nutrition from the ground, it takes awhile to grow, and also after the harvest you have to let the land to “take a break”, to grow other crops, and after 4 years then you can reuse the land to grow back the ginger.