Yang Bing-yi, the founder of the Taiwanese restaurant chain Din Tai Fung, which grew to become one of the world’s largest dumpling empires, has passed away at the age of 96. According to the company, Yang immigrated to Taiwan from China's Shanxi province with only $20 in his pocket and opened a small shop in Taipei with his wife, selling cooking oil and Xiao Long Bao, a type of Chinese soup dumpling.
The business expanded into a franchise and now has outlets across the world, including the US, UK, Australia, UAE, South Korea, and Singapore. The restaurant was awarded its first Michelin star in 2009 and was listed as one of the "world's best travel franchises" in 2014.