Yang Kee Trading Company (Healthy Planet)
Selling Foods that Satisfy the Taste Buds. The host for this show is Grace Chen O’Neil. The guest is Michelle Yang.
In 2004, Michelle Yang started working with her family business as a 4th grader. Every weekend, she asked shoppers in local Asian supermarkets to try their products in hopes that the sing-song-y rhymes she came up with in tandem with her parents’ and sister’s expert cooking would be enough to sell all the products she brought, so that there would be less to clean up and bring home at the end of the day (or even better, they would go home early). 20 years later, it is still just her parents, sister, and Michelle working the wheels of this little operation and their loyal local customer base thankfully allows them no longer to spend their weekends hanging out by freezers. Still, despite having two decades of built up confidence in their products, there was still hesitation, uncertainty, doubt (from the entire family) and anxiety when she decided to leave her corporate job to try bringing her family’s products online to more vegans around the country..
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