En Yeoh’s Bak Kut Teh
Address: 7-G, Jalan Solaris 4, Solaris Mont Kiara, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 012-601 6198
Open: Monday to Friday, 11am to 10pm; Saturday and Sunday, 9.30am to 10.30pm
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The true measure of a man is not how he reacts in good times, but how he responds to bad times. In Yeoh Zong Xian’s case, he overcame some very difficult times and from the ashes of those hurdles, arose a renewed desire to rebuild.
“When I opened my new restaurant En Yeoh’s Bak Kut Teh in Kuala Lumpur, my son told my wife, ‘I am so proud of Papa’. That was a very big moment for me,” says the affable Yeoh, tearing slightly at the recollection.
Yeoh is a second-generation restaurant owner whose father established the famed Yeoh’s Bak Kut Teh restaurant 35 years ago in Klang, Selangor.
“I was three years old when my father started the shop, so I literally grew up there. From that point on, I saw my father working hard from early in the morning until midnight. I also used to help out after school every day,” says Yeoh.
After graduating with a marketing degree, Yeoh decided to expand the family business and ended up opening a few outlets in Johor Baru.
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