No MSG
Savouriness comes from mushroom stock, vegetable stock and fresh aromatics in the pan — never from seasoning powder.
About us
The MORI story
MORI is a vegetarian cafe, bakery and healthy grocery in Medan — one kitchen cooking with premium ingredients, without wheat flour, MSG or preservatives. This is the story behind it.
Philosophy
Eat healthy, live healthy
MORI started from one conviction: good food begins with good ingredients. Not with a clever recipe or a covering sauce, but with what actually goes into the pan.
So we cook the dishes Indonesia already knows — nasi goreng, lontong sayur, bihun, risol — and lift every ingredient in them. Our rice is organic. The oil is rice bran oil. The stock is mushroom and vegetable, not seasoning powder. The salt is Himalayan, the sweetness comes from coconut sugar and molasses. And there is no wheat flour: our cakes are made from rice, quinoa, oat and almond flour.
Premium ingredients like these are not cheap, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we promise is that every rupiah goes into what is on the plate — not into flavour enhancers, preservatives or fillers.
And we are open about it. Every dish lists its full ingredients and nutrition figures, so you can judge for yourself what you are paying for.
- No MSG
- No Preservatives
- Dairy Free
- Gluten Free
What the seal means
Three trees, one forest
Our seal is the Japanese character 森, read “mori”, meaning forest. It is built from three 木 (tree) characters: one tree stands alone; three trees become a forest. That is how we see MORI — a cafe, a bakery and a grocery standing together, with a community of customers growing around them.
Eat healthy, live healthy
Premium ingredients
We upgrade every single ingredient
The flavours you already know, built from better ingredients. No shortcuts — and that is exactly where the difference is.
MSG seasoning
Mushroom & vegetable stock
The savouriness comes from the ingredient itself, not from a flavour-enhancing powder.
Ordinary cooking oil
Rice bran oil
Rice bran oil is more stable under heat and leaves no rancid smell behind.
Table salt
Himalayan salt
Its minerals are still intact, so the saltiness is rounder and never sharp.
Refined sugar
Coconut sugar & molasses
A gentler sweetness, with a natural caramel note white sugar cannot imitate.
Cow’s milk products
Coconut milk & cream
Rich and smooth with nothing from an animal — safe if you are lactose intolerant.
Wheat flour
Rice, quinoa, oat & almond flour
Every MORI cake is gluten free from the batter up, not just on the label.
Kitchen standards
Four things we never compromise on
No preservatives
We cook in small batches every day rather than storing food for weeks.
Dairy free
Our creams and milks come from coconut and nuts, never from cows.
Gluten free
Our cakes and bread use rice, quinoa, oat and almond flour — never wheat.