https://bigwisu.com/tags/indonesia/ Recent content in Indonesia on bigwisu.com Hugo en-us Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://bigwisu.com/2026/09/10/the-rise-of-tempe-chips/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://bigwisu.com/2026/09/10/the-rise-of-tempe-chips/ <p>When I was a kid in Malang, Jl Sanan was just the street where tempe came from.. everybody knew it, nobody thought much about it. We&rsquo;d grab fresh tempe wrapped in banana leaves from the neighbourhood, fry it plain with rice, or mash it into tempe penyet - fried tempe, sambal terasi, rice. Done. It was food. Not a health food. Just food.</p> <p>I lived on that street from the mid-80s through the late 90s. Back then Sanan was synonymous to tempe. The whole kampung felt like a fermentation pot.. in the best way. It was a whole ecosystem.. the tempe makers, and alongside them the people who stocked and sold the soybeans. Keripik tempe existed, but the big oleh-oleh culture came later.. when Malang and Batu grew into proper weekend destinations and people needed something to bring back to Surabaya or Jakarta.</p>