It began at a family table
Yang's Kitchen Recipe did not begin in a factory. It began at a Nyonya family table, with a young girl and a wooden spoon. Our founder, Seow Bee Lean, was the eldest daughter of a large family, and from an early age the kitchen was her responsibility and her joy. Feeding the people she loved taught her the lesson that still guides the brand today: real flavour is worth the effort.
Learned at her mother's side
Her teachers were her mother and grandmother, both Baba-Nyonya — keepers of a Peranakan kitchen where nothing was written down and everything was tasted. From them she inherited a treasury of recipes built on fragrant, hand-pounded spice pastes (rempah) and rich santan. The layered flavours of Nyonya and Siamese home cooking — curry, kam heong, assam, sambal — became second nature to her.
This is heritage you cannot reverse-engineer — it is passed from hand to hand, and it is the foundation of every paste we make.
A lifetime at the stove
Cooking soon became her craft as well as her calling. Across more than three decades she cooked professionally — for a busy workforce, day after day — the kind of experience that teaches consistency, balance, and respect for good ingredients. That discipline is why every Yang's Kitchen Recipe paste tastes the same, and tastes right, every single time.
From the family table to your kitchen
For most of her life, Bee Lean's cooking was something you could only taste if you sat at her table. In recent years, together with her son, she set out to change that. Marrying her time-honoured recipes with modern food technology, they developed cooking pastes that hold the true flavour of a slow-simmered rempah while staying fresh far longer than a fresh paste ever could. What began as a favourite among family and friends became a brand — named, with quiet pride, for the family: Yang's Kitchen Recipe.
Timeline
From a Penang kitchen to the world
1950
Seow Bee Lean is born in Malaysia, the eldest daughter of twelve, learning to cook beside her Baba-Nyonya mother and grandmother.
1968
Seow Bee Lean is born in Malaysia, the eldest daughter of twelve, learning to cook beside her Baba-Nyonya mother and grandmother.
1970s–2000s
Over three decades cooking commercially, feeding a daily workforce and proving the family recipes day after day.
2021
With her son, she turns the family's traditional recipes into shelf-stable cooking pastes using modern food technology.
2022
Hong Shan Food Industries Sdn Bhd is established in Simpang Ampat, Penang.
2023
Yang's Kitchen Recipe launches on Lazada and Shopee, with first exports to Hong Kong, Singapore and China.
至今
A growing range of signature pastes, sharing the flavours of Southeast Asia with kitchens around the world.
Why choose us
Authentic by origin
Every paste comes from real Peranakan and Siamese family recipes, not a generic, off-the-shelf formula.
Food safety you can verify
Strict quality control and traceability from source, batch by batch, so every pack is safe and consistent.
Crafted, not manufactured
Over 30 years of professional culinary expertise behind every blend, built on premium mixed spices and natural ingredients, with no MSG.
Export-ready
Already trusted by customers in China, Singapore and Hong Kong, with capacity for both retail and food-service demand.
Made to travel
Modern processing and preservation give long, stable shelf life without sacrificing taste — ideal for retail and export.
A range for every taste
A wide range of signature Southeast Asian pastes — curry, nyonya, kam heong and more — with custom blends available on request.