Aug 27, 2026 · 29 min · 16 segments
In this episode of Tank Talks Asia, Manisha talks to Christina Rasmussen and Sasha Wijidessa, the co-founders of award-winning Singaporean bar FURA, which serves up innovations such as mealworm…
Sasha WijidessaGuest
Manisha TankHost
But is that success? What does success look like? And what is Fura really about?
And it talks about how it's one of the only few living organisms that thrives in humanly disturbed land.
So throughout the book, the thought is like in a world where it's like capitalism over everything else, how do we achieve collaborative survival? And that's why our tagline, collaborative survival.
So why furor? Because it's pine, mushroom and like the symbiotic relationship between that.
How did you take that as a concept, as a route for your thinking and then turn it into a menu, turn it into choices of drinks, for example? I know that, Christina, your role is...
This is where we get into what is a forager? How did you take this concept that Sasha's just talked about and then actually put it into motion?
I think like the pillars that Furoz built off of and it all kind of came together at once after we kind of defined it through that.
But two main things that we took note of in Denmark and kind of applied that to what we wanted to do next was when we were living in Copenhagen, one of the defining things was they have the infrastructure.
And moving back here, we kind of joked that Singapore is seen as very green and very lovely, which it is, but it's more visually green than anything else.
But is that success? What does success look like? And what is Fura really about?
And it talks about how it's one of the only few living organisms that thrives in humanly disturbed land.
So throughout the book, the thought is like in a world where it's like capitalism over everything else, how do we achieve collaborative survival? And that's why our tagline, collaborative survival.
So why furor? Because it's pine, mushroom and like the symbiotic relationship between that.
How did you take that as a concept, as a route for your thinking and then turn it into a menu, turn it into choices of drinks, for example? I know that, Christina, your role is...
This is where we get into what is a forager? How did you take this concept that Sasha's just talked about and then actually put it into motion?
I think like the pillars that Furoz built off of and it all kind of came together at once after we kind of defined it through that.
But two main things that we took note of in Denmark and kind of applied that to what we wanted to do next was when we were living in Copenhagen, one of the defining things was they have the infrastructure.
And moving back here, we kind of joked that Singapore is seen as very green and very lovely, which it is, but it's more visually green than anything else.
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