Yang Bing-yi

Yang Bing-Yi (; 23 March 1927 – 25 March 2023) was a Taiwanese restaurateur. He was the founder of the restaurant chain Din Tai Fung.

Early life Yang Bing-Yi was born in Yuanping in China's northern Shanxi province in 1927 and immigrated by himself to Taiwan at the age of 20 during the Chinese Civil War in 1948. He took a job to make oil deliveries. The store had two namesakes: Heng Tai Fung, the company the couple had been employed at, and Din Mei Oils, the company that supplied their oil. They sold cooking oil and steamed Chinese soup dumplings called xiaolongbao. The oil business started to have difficulties with the invention of salad oils in metal tins in 1972, and they decided to devote more of their storefront to dumplings.

The original restaurant was in Taipei's Yongkang shopping district and was named one of the best restaurants in the world by the New York Times in 1993. Franchises expanded his brand to the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea and Singapore. As of 2023, there are more than 170 locations in 13 territories.

Personal life Yang was an early riser. In his seventies, he typically spent an hour in the morning walking followed by an hour of doing qigong.