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The Recipe For Chinese Family Business Failures

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Dec 23, 2015
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For 77 years, since 1938 when it was a lowly dai pai dong – a sidewalk food stall in Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan district -- Yung Kee Restaurant’s roast goose has been one of the territory’s most famous dishes – and the restaurant one of its most renowned assets. Yung Kee, populated with ill-tempered and venerable waiters, was long ago transplanted to the cen…

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