Our Family
一起吃饭,一家团圆 A family that eats together, stays together
This has always been a family eating together. The family came from Fengtang Xiang, Chao'an, and settled in Singapore. After the war, founder Tan Ah Sai cooked to feed the workers rebuilding the city, and shaped his own herbal turtle soup. Every bowl he sold from his shoulder-pole pushcart fed someone far from their own family table.
The name 生成 came first, meaning to prosper and to grow; the family surname 陳 was added later. The business was registered in 1946. Husband and wife cooked side by side, children grew up in the kitchen, and in the 1980s the second generation brought in individual claypots, a first in Singapore. The house settled in Geylang in 1992, and the family table simply grew bigger.
Today the third generation keeps the same recipe and the same slow fire. Brothers, sisters, parents and children still work under one roof, and when you sit down with us, you eat the way this family always has: one pot, shared warmth, everyone together.