09-08-2025
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Food van in the middle of Cardiff city centre selling curries Saturday Kitchen star calls 'absolutely delicious'
Food van in the middle of Cardiff city centre selling curries Saturday Kitchen star calls 'absolutely delicious'
Presenter Matt Tebbutt said 'you have to try' the Indonesian street food on offer
Matt Tebbutt tried out Waroeng Nona on his TikTok account
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Saturday Kitchen presenter Matt Tebbutt has said "you have to try" the "absolutely delicious" curries served from a food van in the middle of Cardiff.
Tebbutt shared a clip of him trying dishes from Waroeng Nona, an Indonesian street food pop-up found at the back of Queen's Arcade on Working Street. In the video, posted to the his TikTok account, the chef is wowed by the "delicious" flavours of the food served up. Tasting Mama Jane's Beef Rendang, he says, "It's just rich, developed and loved" in his latest praise for Cardiff's food scene.
And if there is anyone who thinks food joint Waroeng Nona might not be for them, Tebbutt says to "think again".
Encouraging everyone to try the pop-up, the chef says: "I've already tried it and it's delicious. Long slow cooking. Lots of different layers of spices. There's cinnamon in there.
"It's not overpowering. If you think the food is going to be too fiery and too fierce for you, think again. It's just rich and developed and loved.
"That is absolutely delicious." For the latest restaurant news and reviews, sign up to our food and drink newsletter here .
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Waroeng Nona is run by Nona, who moved from Indonesia to Cardiff in 2012 and worked as a chef in restaurants across the city. During the pandemic, Waroeng Nona was born as a food delivery business and has since run a number of street food pop-ups, including at Sticky Fingers.
It is described as a "home for authentic Indonesian flavours."
In the caption of the video, Tebbutt wrote: "You have to try this delicious Indonesian food in Cardiff."
As some Saturday Kitchen fans will know, the 51-year-old presenter has a special connection to Wales. Tebbutt was born in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, but actually grew up in south Wales.
Moving to Wales when he was just six months' old, Tebbutt attended Rougemont School, an independent co-educational day school near Newport, whose other alumni include former Welsh rugby player Richard Parks.
The chef now lives in Monmouthshire. Speaking to Great British Food Awards in 2016, Tebbutt said he considered himself an "honorary Welshman" and that he considered his two children to be Welsh.
"It's my adopted country and a beautiful place to live," he said at the time. "The produce is brilliant, but people have been bad at spreading the word.
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"The Welsh must be very modest, because when you go elsewhere you'll know you're in an area of good food as people will be shouting and raving about it."
