Fried tempe is a nice dish. Originally from Indonesia.
It is a soy product and the photo below is from wikipedia, showing tempe freshly made and sold, wrapped in banana leaves. Soy beans are fermented and bound together by a natural culture (yeast) to make a cake.
Fried tempe can be served with lelapan, nasi lemak. It can be stir fried with ikan bilis too. There are many other ways of using tempe in local cuisine.
the invention of tempe is connected to tofu production in Java. The tofu making industry was introduced to Java by Chinese immigrants around the 17th century.
Chinese Indonesian historain, Ong Hok Ham suggestes that tempe was accidentally produced as the by product of the tofu industry in Java; a discarded soybeans caught the spores of a whitish fungus that was found to be edible.
Ref: Documents about tempe by Shurtieff and Aoyagi (1985,1989,2001)
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