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As part of their heritage, the Yap family made red rice wine in their kitchen for decades and enjoyed it at every celebration. Wondering if there were others who loved it as much, they casually offered it on Carousell, calling it Ye Traditions. The outpouring of memories it elicited surprised them.
In 2022, Lina Chan (left) took a sabbatical from work to care for her daughter, Nicole Chee, now 12, who was diagnosed with dyslexia.
It all started because of a passing remark Yap Jinyen made on her birthday in 2019. The millennial was enjoying the red rice wine brewed by her mother Yap Joo Eng – a hallowed family tradition for generations – when she wondered out loud if brewing rice wine was a “disappearing art”.
The business steadily grew, as did their product offerings. They added their Hakka yellow rice wine in 2021, and ginger rice wine in 2023. Online orders for these rice wines quickly grew to more than 500 bottles each month in total.
They also added other traditional products such as red rice lees (a residual product of fermenting red rice wine) and fermented glutinous rice wine (unfiltered rice wine with visible rice bits) used to make traditional dishes, as well as Hakka cooked dishes such as red rice wine chicken soup and Hakka wine chicken.
