Saturday, 12 March 2016

Welcome to Food Hunting !


Hi! Thank you for visiting Food Hunting. Before you start to explore our blog, we would like to introduce ourselves.

We are marketing student from UTAR (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman). Our name are:
1. Ronald Chai Huan Wen
2. Lee Kok Seng
3. Lee Kai Shin
4. Choo Siew Wei
5. Choo Yin Sheng (From left to right)
We are grateful that UTAR provides chance for us to set up this blog. 

From here, we are going to introduce an Ipoh local restaurant and Ipoh hawker dessert for you. Please enjoy yourself c:

The Amazing Roasted Duck Restaurant - Sun Yeong Wai




First of all, we would like to introduce an Ipoh local restaurant for you - The Amazing Roasted Duck Restaurant, Sun Yeong Wai.
About Sun Yeong Wai

Sun Yeong Wai is one of the Ipoh Culinary Specialist which expert in roasted and barbeque dishes. It's established in Ipoh for more than 20 years. Sun Yeong Wai is a family business that pass down from father (the founder) to son (Danny, the current owner).

In 1976, Danny's father founded the roasted duck business with a self-designed oven in front of his restaurant in Jalan Yau Tet Shin.

Between 1980 and 1990, Danny's father traveled to Hong Kong annually to improve his culinary skills in the preparation of roast ducks, while seek to further develop his business.

The business officially passed to Danny in 1990's. Danny started with a roast duck rice stall in Gunung Rapat. Within 5 years, he successfully opened the First Sun Yeong Wai Roasted Duck Restaurant.

Nowadays Sun Yeong Wai becomes a famous brand closely synonymous with roasted ducks.

Menu

Sun Yeong Wai offers wide range of dishes to its customers. Its menu comprised of several categories:

A. Roast Duck
B. Roast Chicken
C. Roast Pork
D. Turkey
E. Rice
F. Soap
G. Other (Assam Fish and Vegetable)

Dishes

Now, we would like to introduce some signature dishes for you.

Let's start with Smoked Duck. Smoked Duck is a new addition of dishes which strongly recommended by the Chef.



Tender and juicy duck meat with a light smoky scent.


Next, Pei Pa Duck. It's reheated with hot burning oil every time, before it's served to customers. It comes with a crispy, aromatic yet even tender on the meat dish.  Pei Pa Duck should not be missed while you visit to Sun Yeong Wai ! 



It's served together with special sauce.

Follow by Char Siu & Roasted Pork

Sun Yeong Wai Char Siu is cooked by using pork belly, which is essential for good balance of lean meat and fat. It is marinated with secret recipe that includes maltose.


Sun Yeong Wai Roasted Pork is roasted through traditional charcoal furnace with high temperature. It's extremely crispy on the skin while not losing the tenderness and juiciness of the pork belly.

Sun Yeong Wai Char Siu and Roasted Pork have both nice shiny glaze outlook and delicious taste. They are branded an all-time favourite by customers!


Value proposition

While you visit to Sun Yeong Wai, you are able to enjoy delicious dishes under a comfort and hygience environment. Besides, you are able to enjoy dishes that differentiate from other restaurants. Dishes from Sun Yeong Wai are prepared under secret recipe, by culinary specialists with professional techniques. Fresh meats will be served everyday.

Sun YeongWai is a famous culinary that located in Ipoh that major in barbeque and roasted dishes like duck, chicken, barbecued pork or char siew, roasted pork (siew yoke). Sun Yeong Wai is best famous for roast duck especially their Signature Roast Duck, Pei Pa Duck and Smoked Duck and their Roast pork. Their Signature Roasted Duck marinated with various herbs and slow roasted with to perfection to keep it crispier, tender and juicier.

The Pei Pa duck were roasted in a butterfly position to retain the juices of the fowl and to attain the gratifying crisp texture. To assure their Pei Pa Duck is crispy, aromatic yet tender on every serving, they will reheat with hot burning oil. While for their Roast Pork, the pork was roasted using traditional charcoal furnace with high temperature that make it extremely crispy on skin and remain the tenderness and juiciness of pork belly. The Roast pork accompanying with chilli sauce did its job while not being overpowering or underwhelming.  Sun Yeong Wai Barbeque Pork have more advantage compare to some competitors, the Char Siu is more smoky, sweet and caramelized taste and a nice shiny glaze outlook because they are using pork belly marinated with their secret recipe.


Testimonials 

A loyal customer, Hui Yi shared her experience at her own blog (hhuiyi.blogspot.com), "Since small, my parents always brought me to this restaurant - Sun Yeong Wai, when they were craving for roasted duck. Until now, we still always go to this shop when we need roasted ducks as our meal!"

A famous food blogger, James Tan said, " One of my favourite joint in Ipoh for Crispy Siu Yoke! ( Motormouth From Ipoh – Malaysian Food & Travel)

Foreign travelers, Rorey and Cody, shared their experience with Sun Yeong Wai at their blog (Greetings from Riga), "We could hardly wait to eat it so we dug in for a little taste while in the car. Like Cody said "This is the best duck i have ever tasted!" "

A customer we interviewed, who purposely went to Ipoh to visit Sun Yeong Wai with his family, said that, "the dishes taste good enough!"


We strongly believe that you would have a tasty experience while you pay a visit to Sun Yeong Wai, just like we did c:







SUN YEONG WAI
MAIN, TAMAN IPOH JAYA
No.17&19, 
Bwh, Jalan Sri Ampang,
Taman Ipoh Jaya, Perak.
Tel: +6 05-3113600

BRANCH, BANDAR BARU MEDAN IPOH
13, Jalan Medah Ipoh 6, Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh,
31400 Ipoh, Perak.
Tel: +6 05-545 9600

BRANCH, RESTAURANT SYW
63, Jalan Mustapha Al-Bakri,
30300 Ipoh, Perak.
Tel: +6 05-241 3771

Business Hour
Mon - Tues:
11am - 21pm

Thurs - Sun:
11am - 21pm

The longitude and latitude of Sun Yeong Wai: 4°34'56.5"N 101°07'38.9"E

The Decent Hawker Dessert - Kei Fong



Next, we would like to talk about a Ipoh local hawker stall, The Decent Hawker Dessert, Kei Fong.

About Kei Fong 

Kei Fong is one of the oldest hawker stalls in Ipoh. It has a long business history up to 64 years. In 1952, it's founded by Cliff's grandmother. Kei Fong is also a family business which already pass down to 3rd generation. Cliff Tan is the current owner. 

Kei fong, also known as Funny Mountain, it has become an Ipoh famous brand that representing Soya Dessert.

Desserts 


Kei Fong offers 3 types of desserts to its customers:

A. Soya Bean Milk
B. Soya Bean Curd
C. Cincau

Let's talk about Soya Bean Curd (Tau Fu Fah) & Soya Bean Milk . 

Both of them are the signature desserts of Kei Fong. They always strongly recommended by local citizens and loyal customers.  Both of them come with different packaging - take away or eat on the spot. Different packages come with different portion. The portion for take away is bigger.

Kei Fong Tau Fu Fah is super duper smooth. You could exactly feel its smoothness and sweetness glides down your throat while eating. 
Fresh Soya Bean Milk with white sugar 



The packages of desserts. For your information, the small bottle of Soya Bean Milk is 500 ml whereas the large bottle is 1.5l.

            
Value Proposition

From Kei Fong, you're able to taste the traditional soya desserts All the desserts in Kei Fong are produced through traditional method which pass down from the founder, by using organic raw materials. It is important to emphasize that, every single desserts are produced without using any preservative. In addition, Kei Fong offers drive thru service for its customers without any extra charge. This would provide convenience for customers due to its is hard to find parking lot around that area and Kei Fong always full with line up.

Kei Fong famous with their unique and traditional taste of Tau Fu Fah and Soya. There are using the traditional sekkou (石膏) as one of their main food ingredient that result of the great taste of the desserts. Besides, they do not put in any preservation ingredient to preserve their food. The freshness of the dessert has become one of the product strategy of Kei Fong.

Kei Fong has using price/quality approach to differentiate themselves among other competitors. They priced their product slightly higher as compared with other Tau Fu Fah Sellers and positioned themselves as premium yet traditional dessert for the local in Ipoh.



Testimonials 

A loyal customer, Evonne Keok shared her experience at her own blog (http://evonnekeok.blogspot.my/), " I ate this since i was young everytime followed Chien(her friend) came out from kampung to Ipoh town in school holiday."

Local traveler, Wilson Ng and Rachel Ting shared their experience with Kei Fong (http://www.placesandfoods.com/), "I had the Ipoh best Tau Fu Fah and Soya drinks, this will be my favourite pit stop in Ipoh."

One of the customers that we interviewed, Esther, said that, " This stall's Tau Fu Fah is my favourite dessert, I ate it since I was young and I almost come to eat tau fu fah twice a week. It Is very delicious!"

Local channel, 8TV grants Kei Fong as "Best of The Word"



Kei Fong often visited by famous foreign actors, especially from Hong Kong TVB and Singapore. 




If you are a desserts lover, you must pay a visit to Kei Fong. You never forget its sweetness.






Kei FONG (FUNNY MOUTAIN)


Funny Mountain Soya Bean 
49, Jalan Theatre,
30300, Ipoh, Perak.
Tel: +6 04-5469968/ +6012-516 1607 (Cliff Tan)
Email: 
funnymountain@hotmail.com; soyaboy@streamyx.com
Business Hours
1030am - Finish (Daily)

The longitude and latitude of Kei Fong: 4°35'40.4"N 101°05'03.3"E

Business Evaluation

A)Group Opinion and Why We Selected These 2 Places


After the brainstorming session, our group had decide to choose Sun Yeong Wai  Restaurant and Funny Mountain Soya Taufufa Stall. There are several reasons lead us to choose Sun Yeong Wai. One of the reason is there are many type flavor of duck in Sun Yeong Wai. The customer can having the special and unique taste of the duck in Sun Yeong Wai. Other than this, one of the reason that we choose them which is the employees and the owner of Sun Yeong Wai are very friendly and kindness, they willing to introduce the new customers for their popular food and serve them very well. Last, they also has a very good environment for the customer to having the lunch in the stall outlet.


The reason that we choose funny mountain soya is Funny Mountain had sold the soya for over 65 years in Ipoh and at the same place, they haveundergo all of the changes in the Ipoh city which from Old town city to a new infrastructure city. The soya in Funny Mountain can lead customers to experiences the old taste of the memories in the stall and the price of soya is reasonable compare to the competitor in Ipoh. Other reason is that the boos of Funny mountain are very friendly, even he was very busy to serve his customer but he also willing to take time to help us to conduct the video and accept our interview.



The both of the stall also represent the culture taste in Ipoh and pass generation by generation. We wish to introduce the Ipoh local food and drinks to the food seekers who searching delicious foods in Ipoh. 



B) Classification of Ecommerce by The Nature of The Transactions or Interactions
Sun Yeong Wai Roasted Duck Restaurant and Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah is using business-to-consumer model, or B2C, involves a company selling a product or service to the end of the user as opposed to selling to another business. One of the most common interpretations of B2C is the business model is that selling Direct-to-customer. Both considered as small business B2C, which is opening their own brick and mortar store and selling the food and dessert directly to the end customers. For Sun Yeong Wai Roasted Duck Restaurant take online and phone orders with reservation services to book tables during peak seasons. While for Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah they have own store and drive thru service to deliver the food directly to the customers.



C )Business Model


C.1 Sun Yeong Wai Roasted Duck Restaurant

Offline Business Model-Brick and Mortar
Sun Yeong Wai Roasted Duck Restaurant one of Ipoh famous culinary specialist major in barbeque and roasted dishes. Passed down from father to sonis using Brick and Mortar as their business model. Which means it is a traditional "street-side" business that deals with its customers face to face in the restaurant itself.


 Online Business Model- Viral Marketing
Sun Yeong Wai is using Viral Marketing as their online business model. Since Danny, the current owner of Sun Yeong Wai continue his father business, he has developed their own websites to reach the younger generations and wider markets so that people from other states will be able to notice this unique restaurants. They have their customers posting on their Facebook, website and blog as testimonials and sharing the food photos in social media to spread positive word of mouth. It soon became one of the ‘Must Try Restaurant’ in Ipoh. In addition, they have reservation service in the website which allows the customers to reserve the tables online during peak seasons.


Customer Segmentation
Sun Yeong Wai targeting on the segments based on demographic which is young adults, family, tourist and business people. Normally Sun Yeong Wai is peak during holidays, lunch and dinner hours. Customers can order alarcart, quarter, half or full portion of the roasted dishes which suitable for the target market. Besides, they also segment based on benefits sought which is their great taste and culinary skills in the preparation of roast ducks.


Channels
Sun Yeong Wai has 3 branches as their distribution channel which located in Taman Ipoh Jaya, Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh and Jalan Mustapha Al-Bakri. The purpose of having 3 branches in different location is because they would like to expand their business and let more people could taste the uniqueness of the roasted duck. Besides, they also developed own websites and Facebook page as an online channel to reach the customers.


Menu Choices
Roast Duck
·         Signature Roasted Duck
·         Smoked Duck
·         Pei Pa Duck
Roasted Chicken
·         Herb  Chicken
·         Sesame Chicken
·         Roasted Chicken
Roasted Pork
·         Char Siu
·         Roasted Pork
Turkey
·         Turkey Chicken
Rice
·         Roasted Duck Rice
·         Barbeque  Pork with Roasted Pork Rice
·         Roasted Pork Rice
·         Roasted Chicken Rice
Soup
·         Watercrest with Pork Rib Soup
·         Old Cucumber with Pork Rib Soup
·         Lotus with Peanut Soup
Others
·         Assam Fish
·         Vegetable


Assessment of Competing Restaurants
The competitors of Sun Yeong Wai would be Chow Roasted Duck Stall Ipoh, Restoran Ting Feng and Hong Kong Oil Chicken & Roast Duck. These restaurants are selling the same type of roasted duck in the same area which is Ipoh.


Customer Relationships 

Customer Acquisition
Sun Yeong Wai acquires new customers by having positive word of mouth, promoting through own website, Facebook page and electronic bill board in the center of the town.


Customer Retention
Sun Yeong Wai retains their customers through the unique culinary skills in the preparation of roast ducks .They are preparing the roasted dishes every morning and would not keep it for the other day to ensure the freshness of the roasted dishes which became one of the reason for customer loyalty.


Revenue Stream
Transaction revenue will be direct sales from customers.


Key Resources
The key resources of Sun Yeong Wai is their own duck breeding farming, physical outs, roasting cooker, intellectual properties such as their own patent,copyrights, special culinary skills and recipe.


Key Activities
Their key activities would be roasting and processing the ducks from the farm to the restaurants every day. The other main activity would be serving customers in the restaurants.


Cost Structure
Their cost structure is based on Value-driven which means they set premium prices based on the value of the food. Furthermore, Sun Yeong Wai has their own fixed cost, variables cost which is their farming cost, physical outlet rental and wages.



C.2 Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah (奇峰豆腐花)

Offline Business Model
Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah also using the same business model as well which is Brick and Mortar. They are using this model since the first generation of the owner which is starting from 64 years ago. They have developed their business from hawker stall to Tau Fu Fah shop in the most trafficking location which is Old Town Ipoh.


Online Business Model
Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah strongly depend on viral marketing as well. The customers would share their photos in social media when they eating in the store or drive thru, this would significantly increase the recognition and brand awareness.


Customer Segments
Their target markets are tourist, local young adults, adults and seniors. This is because of the traditional brand recognition and loyalty to the brand since many generations.


Channels
Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah only using one direct distribution channel which is their physical outlet located in Oldtownipoh. In addition, they provide drive thru service to cope with the high trafficking of customers during peak hours.

Menu Choices

Soy Bean Curd
·         Sweet Syrup
·         Malacca Sugar Syrup
Soya Milk
·         500 ml
·         1500 ml
Cincau Ice



Assessment of Competing Restaurants
The main competitors for Funny Mountain would be Ding feng ,WongKee,Tai Soo
and Lou Yao Kei which also selling Tou Fu Fah and soya.

Customer Relationships

Customer Acquisition
Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fa acquires new customers based on the well-known brand name with 64 years history and good reputation.
Besides, they are using viral marketing which the consumers will share their products in their social media and promote in blog, Instagram and Facebook as well.


Customer Retention
Funny Mountain retains their customers by passing the unique tastes through generation. Besides, Funny Mountain emphasized on the traditional preparation  method which is unchanged taste and ingredient since year 1952.


Revenue Stream
The revenue generate directly from the sales of Tau Fu Fah and soya.


Key Resources
Their key resources including Physical Outlet, Bean Curd Preparation tools, key employees to prepare the Tau Fu Fah and soya with secret recipe and traditional method.


Key Activities
Bean Curd Preparation, selling and drive thru service.


Cost Structure
Their cost structure would be Cost-driven and Economic of scale. They emphasized on lower production cost for simpler products which only the most original Tau Fu Fah , soya and cincau without any additional flavors or topping. Besides, they have cost advantage by the increased of quantity sold.



D) Its Basic Approach Used in Marketing and Advertising 


D.1 Sun Yeong Wai Roasted Duck Restaurant

Advertising
Sun YeongWai had used the both method of online and offline to advertise their foods, which included the use of electronic billboard, newspaper and social media fans page as their advertising tools. They use the electronic bill board at the  busystreet of Ipoh to promote their foods to the consumers, other than that, they also created a facebook page to deliver the information of their food and services to the customers.So the loyalty customer has become the free advertisement to help them to share the services and foods provided by Sun YeongWai to their friends.


D.2 Funny Mountain Tau Fu Fah (奇峰豆腐花)


Advertising Strategy
Funny Mountain soya bean & tau fu fah use viral marketing as their advertising tool. They depend on word of mouth their loyalty customers spread. Their loyalty customers will spread the experiences of tasting the soya bean and tau fu fah to their friends and therefore whenever people think of drinking soya bean, they will automatically think of Funny Mountain. It is a free advertising for FUnny Mountain.



E)  Recommendations to improve business through e-commerce


Nowadays, many businesses and companies improve their service by introducing the e commerce. In order to maximizes the profit and provide better services to their customer, Sun Yeong Wai and Funny Mountain should upgrade their system by using e commerce tools.


Mobile commerce
Sun Yeong Wai and Funny Mountain can self-branded mobile and web apps for advanced ordering & payments because research show that people spend 80 percent of their time on mobile devices. By having their web apps or mobile wallet, customers to order, pay from anytime and anywhere and customers can pick up their order anytime on the day. Therefore, it can add more value to the customer experience. Moreover, both the restaurants can prepare a priority lane for those who are using their mobile device. So, users get to skip the line and proceed directly to the check-out specifically designated as the mobile apps orders are prepared in priority. Sun Yeong Wai and Funny Mountain can also do a “mobile check-in” so, the customer can notifies store staff that they are ready for order pick-up. Other than that, by having mobile application, it may benefit both parties. Sun Yeong Wai and Funny Mountain can know their customers favorite orders so they can prepare the dishes more and users can also save their ordering history, favorite orders and payment details to make re-ordering even easier. Customers may also use the application to do reservation for their seat or pre-order their foods, so they can immediately serve when they reach the restaurant.


Online Advertising 
Sun Yeong Wai and Funny Mountain can improve their business by using online advertising, by using it, they will have the ability to interact one-to-one with their customers and the ability to use rich media like videos to grab attention. They can also promote their product and service online, therefore it may reduce their expenses of spending on traditional way of advertising. Sun Yeong Wai and Funny Mountain can advertise using interactive media, it is a form of media marketing that performed through the Internet, often using video, banner, pop up ads, flash games as delivery medium to promote products, services and other activities and information. So, In order to unobtrusively attract customers Sun Yeong Wai and Funy Mountain can create different advertising flash-games with pictures and logos and the advertised product. They can also advertise through pop up ads to promote their new menu so people can notice it immediately and have a try if they are interested to it.