04/03/2026
A change of purpose!
When we first launched Sambal Kantan, we offered two variants, The Original - with anchovies; and the Vegetarian version. It made sense on paper. In practice, our Temuan cooks told a different story.
After handcrafting hundreds of bottles, our Temuan cooks noticed a key difference - adding anchovies was overpowering the natural depth of the Bunga Kantan flower. The saltiness after bottling the anchovies with the sambal was masking the very taste that makes our sambal unique. Taking away from the ingredients that our Temuan cooks have grown, harvested, and cooked with.
So we listened and are taking steps to return to our cultural ways...
From now on, we are sticking to the one way that Sambal Kantan is made. Our new Original Recipe will be fully vegetarian. Clean. Balanced. Truer to the traditional Temuan flavor it was meant to be. This is what indigenous cooperation looks like. Not just us deciding what's best, but listening to our people who have carried this knowledge long before we have arrived.
One Sambal. Perfected.
