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Placate your late night munchies with these homegrown treats
Rummaging through cupboards to find the perfect snack food can be a thankless task. Stale tortilla chips and air-softened cookies hide in the backs of pantries, leaving you no choice but to settle your stomach with a handful of chocolate chips. Some local brands, however, are focused on preventing you from remaining an ingredient-only household and imbue bite-sized treats with local flair and wholesome ingredients. From handcrafted marshmallows to small-batch hummus, we’ve compiled a list of local snack brands to help you keep your cupboard stocked with equatorial delights and satisfy your cravings.
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Amazin’ Graze
Granola is a staple breakfast topping, contributing to the textural complexity of oatmeal, cereal, and the like, but it doubles as an irresistible snack food. Amazin’ Graze offers various wholesome granola options in innovative flavours, making an excellent healthy treat. Borne out of a mission to empower people’s diet choices, Amazin’ Graze’s selection consists of locally influenced coconut kaya granola and salted gula melaka granola alongside hazelnut black forest, banana bread, and more. They also carry a variety of hummus chips, spiced nut mixes, and instant oatmeal.
Huey & Wah
Name a more indulgent snack than marshmallows. Now ponder homemade, gourmet, ooey gooey, fluffy pillows of sugary goodness. Huey & Wah are local marshmallow specialists focused on giving you the marshmallow experience of your dreams. These sweet treat connoisseurs have turned classic marshmallows into epicurean spectacles. With flavours like stout, orange ginger, pandan gula melaka, and passionfruit, Huey & Wah’s marshmallows elevate any cup of hot chocolate. To provide the ultimate snacking experience, they make their own honey graham crackers and offer DIY s’mores kits.
Kintry Co
A labour of love founded in 2017, Kintry Food Co’s immense handmade snack selection can now be sourced from local grocers and supermarkets. With both sweet and savoury options in their arsenal, chocolate chip oat cookies and salted egg yolk potato crisps are just some of Kintry Food Co’s offerings.
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Humma
Humma concoct small batches of intensely creamy chickpea dip with fresh lemons and earthy tahini. Only obtainable through pre-orders, their hummus starts with a blend of toasted chickpeas and fragrant white sesame seeds. Available in four varieties, each one spotlights distinct toppings. Their signature hummus is topped with pine nuts, classic with flaky Maldon sea salt, roasted pepper with chilli flakes and zaatar, and beetroot with feta cheese, black sesame seeds, and parsley.
Tempe!
Redefining Malaysian plant-based proteins, Tempe! curate crunchy tempeh and tofu chips. Free from MSG and high in protein, these soybean chops are a savoury and healthy alternative to familiar snack options. These chips pair well with dips, a drizzle of chilli oil, or crumbled on rice.
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Naturecare.life
Encapsulating the food of the future, Naturecare.life’s Zero Cubes are plant-based chufa cubes made entirely of whole foods. The holistic supplement fanciers expanded their talents into the world of snack foods, freeze drying fruits and aromatics to create treats enriched with Vitamin E, folate, zinc, and magnesium. Variations of mango, Musang King durian, ginger, and coffee are made solely with the ingredients themselves and never flavouring extracts. Naturecare.life’s collaboration with local matcha authority Niko Neko Matcha houses ajisai matcha, mokuren genmaicha, and tsubaki hojicha Zero Cubes.
D’Artisan Cheese
Run by husband and wife duo Dexter Lim and Natalie Chiang, D’Artisan Cheese integrates local flair into the art of cheesemaking. The cheesemakers use only vegetarian rennet, natural cultures, and Himalayan salt in their meticulous, small-batch crafting process. Offering a classic selection, including gouda, provolone, and aged cheddar, they also boast vegan options and incorporate Malaysian cuisine into their cheeses. Kerabu cheese, rendang cheddar, and sambal belacan gouda are just some of D’Artisan Cheese’s Truly Malaysia Series. These homegrown cheeses prove the perfect variety for cheeseboard curation, with options for every palate.
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Chelsea is a Dining Writer for Tatler Malaysia. When she’s not eating or writing about eating, she’s probably deciphering which oat milks froth the best for homemade flat whites.
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Chelsea writes about where to find great food and is passionate about exploring the cultural significance of different cuisines.
