Who was the founder of Eu Yan Sang? Any other interesting information related to Eu Yan Sang?
The founder of Eu Yan Sang is Eu Kong Pai. He left the village of Foshan in Guangdong and opened his first Chinese medicine shop in 1879 in Gopeng, Malaysia. The name of the company that Eu Kong started is made up of the words "Yan" and "Sang". The former means benevolent, kind or humane in Chinese while the latter represents birth, life or livelihood. "Yan Sang" literally means caring for mankind.
The Eu Yan Sang Pharmacy, a classical 3-storey building built in 1910, famous for Chinese Herbal Medication from China, were in olden times also well-known for the transmission of funds to families in China.
