Our story · 1984 — today

Forty years, one family kitchen.

From a fishing village outside Hong Kong to Miller Road in Flint. This is the story of Grandma Yin, Grandpa Wing Gong, and the Yue family who keep their recipes alive.

Grandma Yin Gong, co-founder of The Golden Moon, holding a plate of food, in an early newspaper photo

Meet Grandma Yin

The recipes are hers.

Yin Gong co-founded The Golden Moon with Grandpa Wing Gong in 1984. The egg rolls, the plum sauce, the soups made from scratch: all of it started in her kitchen, and the family still cooks it her way.

Grandma Yin, from an early Golden Moon newspaper feature.Family archive

1950sHong Kong

A village by the sea

Yin, the woman Flint would come to know as Grandma, grew up in a small fishing village on the outskirts of Hong Kong. She shared a one-bedroom home with her adoptive mother and twelve siblings.

Food was how a crowded household showed love. [add detail: a dish or memory from her childhood]

Weathered stilt houses over the water in a Hong Kong fishing village — Stilt houses in a Hong Kong fishing village, like the one Grandma Yin grew up in.Photo & pen sketch · family collection

Pen sketch of a fishing-village stilt house, dated 14 November 1994 — Stilt houses in a Hong Kong fishing village, like the one Grandma Yin grew up in.Photo & pen sketch · family collection

1960sMarriage & a move

Yin & Wing Gong’s weddingArchive photo

Two kids and a one-way trip

In the early 1960s she met and married Wing Gong, our Grandpa. After two children, they left everything familiar and moved to the United States, barely speaking a word of English.

They arrived in [add year & city].

~10 yrsNovi, Michigan

Learning the trade

For almost a decade they worked at a family-owned Chinese restaurant in Novi: learning English, learning American tastes, and saving every dollar they could toward a place of their own.

The Novi yearsArchive photo

1984Flint, Michigan

The Golden Moon Chinese Restaurant roadside sign, 733-7030 — The sign on Miller Rd. Same phone number since day one.4527 Miller Rd · Flint

The Golden Moon opens

They moved to Flint in 1983, and in 1984 opened The Golden Moon at 4527 Miller Road. Egg rolls were hand-rolled, sauces were made in house, and soups were made from scratch. They still are.

AfterThe next generation

The children carry it on

Not long after opening, Grandpa fell ill and passed away. The restaurant became the Yue children’s to run, and they have owned and run it ever since, often with the grandkids behind the counter.

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The Yue children in the kitchenFamily photo

Today40+ years

The Golden Moon dining room with red lanterns, booths and family tables — Our dining room on Miller Rd, set for lunch.The Golden Moon today

Still here, still from scratch

Generations of Flint families have grown up on our egg rolls, our plum sauce and hot mustard, and portions nobody leaves hungry from. Now you can order pickup online, too.

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Meet the family

The faces behind the woks.

The people you see at the counter, and the ones who taught them.

Grandma Yin

Co-founder, 1984. The original recipes are hers.

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Grandpa Wing Gong

Co-founder, 1984. In loving memory.

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[Name] Yue

Second generation. [role]

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[Name] Yue

Second generation. [role]

Forty years, one family kitchen.

The recipes are hers.

A village by the sea

Two kids and a one-way trip

Learning the trade

The Golden Moon opens

The children carry it on

Still here, still from scratch

The faces behind the woks.

Grandma Yin

Grandpa Wing Gong

[Name] Yue

[Name] Yue

Moments worth keeping.

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