Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Everybody agrees that burnt meals is a catastrophe. The style within the meals all of a sudden disappears and is changed by a dominant bitter style. Nonetheless, this settlement doesn’t apply to Lee Kam Sheung. Burnt meals really brings blessings as a result of it may make him so wealthy that he has IDR 300 T.
What is the story?
The story begins in 1888. Lee Kam Sheung was the proprietor of a tea store in Nanshui, Guangdong Province, China. He not solely sells tea, but additionally oyster soup which shoppers actually like. For that reason, the store is at all times full of guests and sometimes makes Lee confused. Understandably, he’s multitasking. All of the work, from cooking, serving and delivering orders, was performed alone.
Till lastly in the future in 1888, this confusion made Lee undergo. At the moment he was boiling oysters. Nonetheless, attributable to prospects persevering with to reach, he left the kitchen to serve them.
One after the other the visitors had been served significantly till Lee forgot about his work within the kitchen. In the meantime, on the similar time, the boiled oysters continued to emit foam, indicating that they had been prepared and requested to be eliminated. Nonetheless, that also could not distract Lee.
Till lastly, after a couple of minutes, there was a robust aroma coming from the kitchen all through the store, accompanied by smoke rising excessive. Folks had been confused. At this level, Lee was instantly shocked and remembered one thing.
“Wow! I am boiling oysters within the kitchen,” mentioned Lee.
He rushed to the kitchen, turned off the fireplace and lifted the lid on the pot. How shocked Lee was when he noticed that his oyster stew had modified form. The water has lowered drastically and turned darkish brown. The oysters are burnt! Can’t be served to shoppers.
Even so, Lee did not instantly throw it away. He poked on the thick brown liquid and was instantly shocked. Unexpectedly it tastes very scrumptious.
“That is when the world’s first oyster sauce was born,” he wrote South China Morning Submit (SCMP).
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From that incident, Lee began experiments. He boiled the oysters once more, this time including spices and seasonings, and let the water drain just a little.
As anticipated, when it is prepared it tastes much more scrumptious. Lee additionally saved the thick liquid within the type of sauce. Typically he makes use of sauce to combine recipes.
Unexpectedly, due to this sauce there have been increasingly guests to the store. In actual fact, they simply wish to purchase the sauce. From right here, the enterprise concept emerged. He additionally shaped his personal oyster sauce firm referred to as Lee Kum Kee in 1888.
After being marketed, Asian tongues and dishes turned out to be very appropriate when mixed with oyster sauce. Consequently, as a result of the one oyster sauce trade, Lee Kum Kee bought effectively on the finish of the nineteenth century.
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The corporate has additionally moved a number of occasions. From China, to Macau, and settling in Hong Kong till now. After Lee Kam Sheung died in 1932, Lee Kum Kee’s enterprise was continued by his son.
Till now, the enterprise has been run by the fifth technology. All through that interval there have been many modifications in Lee Kum Kee’s enterprise line. Even so, the passage of time has not modified the deliciousness of Lee Kum Kee.
“Lee Kum Kee makes use of strict supervision relating to style and enterprise continuity. In an effort to survive, the corporate at all times applies the teachings of Chinese language philosophy and Confucianism. That is the important thing to Lee Kum Kee’s success in surviving for greater than a century,” wrote Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwas in “The Enterprise Success of Lee Kum Kee” (International Enterprise Overview, 2015).
On the corporate’s official web site, Lee Kum Kee is now accessible in 100 international locations all over the world. Then the enterprise isn’t just oyster sauce, however has reached 200 varied merchandise.
And all the pieces is an inspiration for different firms to make related issues. Nonetheless, Lee Kum Kee model oyster sauce nonetheless can’t be in contrast.
Now, the Lee household is listed by Forbes (2023) because the 4th richest individuals in Hong Kong and among the many richest individuals in Asia. His whole belongings attain US$ 19.3 billion or nearly Rp. 300 trillion. All of that is obtained from by chance letting meals burn.
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