A bowl of curry laksa with tofu puffs, egg and prawns Laksa ready in 5 minutes Kantan Penang Curry Laksa Paste pack

Malaysian classics, ready before the rice is.

Ten Halal cooking pastes made in Subang Jaya. Laksa is ready in 5 minutes and most curries in 15. Just add water and your choice of protein.

Shop the pastes From RM13.90
Make your own brand OEM & private label pastes
JAKIM Halal Malaysia MeSTI, Ministry of Health Malaysia HACCP certified GMP certified Buatan Malaysia

In every MaxValu and selected AEON storesAlso in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Brunei

Ten flavours

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From pack to plate

Three steps. No grinding.

No pounding chillies, no hunting for galangal. Everything is already in the pack.

  1. Kantan meat curry paste frying in a pot
    1

    Sauté the paste

    Fry it in the pot for a minute or two until fragrant.

  2. A quarter cup of water poured into satay chicken
    2

    Add water

    About 2 cups for laksa, half a cup for most curries.

  3. Mutton added to rendang paste in a pot
    3

    Add your protein

    Chicken, beef, prawns, fish or tofu. Simmer, taste, serve.

No extra seasoning needed

Every recipe comes with a short video from our kitchen. Watch one, then cook along.

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For your kitchen

Pick any six. Pay RM45.60.

Mix laksa, curries and sambal however you like. Free shipping in West Malaysia over RM50.

Build my bundleYou save RM37.80 against single packs

For your business

Your recipe. Our Halal kitchen.

Private label, custom recipes and bulk supply for restaurants, caterers and F&B brands, with a low minimum order.

100+paste recipes ready to produce
1 kgretort pouches, 10 kg cartons
16 moshelf life at room temperature
160+countries accept JAKIM Halal
Okmaya Soft Tofu Stew Paste, produced by Kantan
Made by Kantan

Okmaya × Kantan

From an influencer’s recipe to 450+ FamilyMart chillers.

Food creator Seonma Shin wanted a Halal soft tofu stew paste. Kantan developed the recipe, produced it in a 120 g retail pack, and it now sits in FamilyMart’s open chillers nationwide.

450+FamilyMart stores
120g retail pack
100%Halal certified
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Cook along

Ten recipes, ten videos.

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Home cooks say it best.

Reviews from Kantan’s marketplace store.

Our story

Aunty Annie’s forty years in the kitchen, in a pack.

Kantan began with family cooking: more than forty years of Aunty Annie’s Asian recipes and the dishes of founder Seth’s mother. Seth and co-founder Carly, who leads R&D, turned them into pastes anyone can cook on a weeknight.

  1. 40+ yearsAunty Annie cooks Malay, Nyonya, Chinese and Indian dishes for family and friends.
  2. 2020Kantan Food Asia Sdn Bhd opens its kitchen in Subang Jaya.
  3. TodayTen retail pastes, 100+ OEM recipes, MaxValu and AEON shelves, and buyers met at trade shows from London to Shanghai.
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Why “Kantan”?

Bunga kantan is the torch ginger flower that perfumes a bowl of assam laksa. In Japanese and Cantonese, kantan (簡単) means simple.

Aunty Annie
Aunty Annie40+ years of Asian cooking
Seth, founder of Kantan
SethFounder
Carly, co-founder and head of R&D
CarlyCo-founder, head of R&D

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