Lau graduated from National Taoyuan Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School in the 1970s and returned to Malaysia to put what he had learned into practice. He started by raising pigs and rice, only to have his livelihood devastated in a flood. This convinced him to change careers.
劉乃好 1970 年代畢業於桃園農工，返馬後學以致用，從養豬、種稻開始創業，孰料不久遭遇一場大水災，稻田成汪洋的慘重損失讓他決定轉行。