It was in 2013, while on an extended trip around Indonesia’s vast archipelago, that I had a eureka moment: to introduce authentic Indonesian tempeh to the UK! Full of revolutionary zeal, I changed my plans and spent the next few months travelling across Java learning how to make authentic tempeh from some incredibly kind (and very patient) tempeh gurus.
We soon became a popular lunchtime destination and I became known as ‘The Tempeh Man’. We’re still on lively Leather Lane Market to this day - serving our authentic home-made tempeh in two freshly cooked dishes.
Our love of tempeh has taken us viral over the years, particualrly in Indonesia, below are some some videos & interviews but these are mostly in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language).
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I'm Will and I've been making the highest quality fresh raw tempeh since 2013 - which we now supply across the country to some of the UK's finest restaurants and eateries. And I can still be found on our popular food stall in London’s Leather Lane Market serving our famous tempeh lunches - the place where I earned the moniker The Tempeh Man!
From these humble beginnings, we expanded production to enable us supply great tempeh in much larger quantities - using the same time-honoured teqniques and processes but from a state-of-the-art production facility.
Our production is now IFS certified - so the shops, restaurants, caterers and food manufacturers that we supply can rest assured that our tempeh is made to the most exacting standards.
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Back in 1995, I’d just arrived in Indonesia to teach English when I first tried tempeh - in a small warung in East Jakarta – and fell in love immediately! Over the following years I was able to eat the world’s best tempeh every day, as I explored this beautiful country from Aceh to Maluku, North Sulawesi to West Kalimantan
At that time, the plant-based movement was still in its infancy and very few people had heard of tempeh. Enter my super-charged, tempeh-warrior street food stall AKA Warung Tempeh - it was April 2014 on East London’s Leather Lane Market and the UK tempeh revolution had officially begun!
