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The tastemakers now have an outdoor shoe collection and a gourmet burger restaurant.
The mountain coffee farmers have attracted nine million YouTube views and fans across Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan.
Deep in Indonesia s Lembang forest, row after row of coffee bushes dotted with red berries grows between pine trees. The plants are surrounded by leafy banana trees, willowy bamboo trees, and tuberous cassava plants.
While this forest may look as if it s running wild, it s been carefully curated by its new owners, friends Hedi Rusdian, 28, and Gianjar Saribanon, 40. The two men bought the land in 2014, built a cabin on its mountainside, and are now determined to bring a new face to coffee farming in Indonesia via their YouTube channel, which has been aptly named BBQ Mountain Boys.
This May, Tatler Asia launched its inaugural Tastemakers list as part of the Asia’s Most Influential series a roll call of the region’s most forward thinking, original and impactful figures in F&B. It’s a list where you’ll see founders of food charities rubbing shoulders with zany wine enthusiasts, visionary mixologists with veteran chefs and all the culinary creatives in between.
But the list is not just a list it’s a community, and that’s why we’re bringing together a cross section of the 2021 Tastemakers from Hong Kong for a series of intimate dining events at Tatler Dining Kitchen from 17-30 May. Each experience is underscored by the spirit of collaboration, with Tastemakers from different disciplines working with each other to create dishes and drinks that riff on each other’s strengths, preoccupations and philosophies.