Lim has so far made 85 different kinds of classic cheese and spends nearly every waking moment tending to his cheese. Photo: ART CHEN/The Star
Running a niche home food business requires a lot of time and attention to detail. The products on offer are not cheap and entrepreneurs say it’s due to the sheer amount of sweat and tears expanded in making these products, often with little or no help at all.
For Ethan Wong, the founder of home-based tempeh chip brand Truly Gourmet, his commitment to producing the best starts from the ground up.
Wong makes his tempeh from scratch, fermenting it himself. Every day, he wakes up at 5am and spends three hours hand-slicing the tempeh before manually frying it in a combination of rice bran oil and canola oil.