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 truly brings blessings as a result of it will possibly 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 customers actually like.
For that reason, the store is at all times filled with guests and sometimes makes Lee confused. Understandably, he’s multitasking. All of the work, from cooking, serving and delivering orders, was finished alone.
Till lastly in the future in 1888, this confusion made Lee endure. At the moment he was boiling oysters. Nonetheless, on account of 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 identical 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. Individuals had been confused. At this level, Lee was instantly shocked and remembered one thing.
“Alamak! I am boiling oysters within the kitchen,” stated 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 diminished drastically and turned darkish brown. The oysters are burnt! Can’t be served to customers.
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 Publish (SCMP).
Rich
From that incident, Lee began experiments. He boiled the oysters once more, this time including spices and seasonings, and let the water drain a bit.
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 more guests to the store. In truth, they only need to purchase the sauce. From right here, the enterprise thought 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. In consequence, as a result of the one oyster sauce trade, Lee Kum Kee bought nicely on the finish of the nineteenth century.
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The corporate has additionally moved a number of instances. 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 era. 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. As a way 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” (World Enterprise Assessment2015).
On the corporate’s official web site, Lee Kum Kee is now accessible in 100 international locations around the globe. Then the enterprise is not only oyster sauce, however has reached 200 varied merchandise.
And every little thing is an inspiration for different firms to make comparable issues. Nonetheless, Lee Kum Kee model oyster sauce nonetheless can’t be in contrast.
Now, the Lee household is listed Forbes (2023) because the 4th richest particular person in Hong Kong and among the many richest folks in Asia. His complete belongings attain US$ 19.3 billion or virtually Rp. 300 trillion. All of that is obtained from unintentionally letting meals burn.
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