In 1995, Li Yu-lin was in Shanghai looking for business opportunities. She felt then that the doujiang (soybean milk) and youtiao (deep-fried dough sticks) there were not up to the standards in Taiwan, and anyway they were always sold in makeshift street stalls of highly dubious hygienic properties.
九五年剛到上海尋找商機的李玉麟，感覺上海的豆漿、油條不僅味道不及台灣，而且都在街邊臨時搭建的帳棚裡賣，衛生條件往往叫人卻步。