阮記的起源与发展
70年代，阮冠洲先生出生于马来西亚霹雳太平保阁亚三新村里。新村生活朴素，当地的居民大部分都以农牧维生。随着当地的文化，阮先生的家人也饲养了很多鸡和鸭，他的母亲更是一位能烹饪出一手好菜肴的厨艺高手，尤其是一道咸蒸鸡，更是家户喻晓。因此每逢佳节，左邻右里都会过来订购这道传统又美味的咸蒸鸡。之后，阮老太还配上上等药材如当归，川弓，胡椒等，使这道菜肴味道锦上添花。
后来，阮先生到怡保从事食品行业，打拼一段日子后，发现由于离开家乡太久，令他对母亲所烹饪的原汁原味药材咸蒸鸡回味无穷，念念不忘其味道。他并不想如此美味多汁的传统食物失传，便回到家乡向母亲请教此咸蒸鸡的制作方法。经过母亲的指导，阮先生发现制作过程费时且不方便。在忙碌的生活，他认为必须给人简单方便食用的方法，并以方便加保留传统风味 为方向来研究改良配方。
终于在2013年创立了食品品牌~阮記，并成功改良配方，更将传统的咸蒸鸡
命名为“阮記传统风味桑拿鸡”。为了保留了传统风味，因而采用甘榜走地鸡，抹上竹盐及份量十 足的当归药材后，置于大锅内蒸焗。
不但保留住食材精华还补身养生，加上特殊的包装，只需要蒸热就可以上菜，方便省时。阮先生的未来目标是要将这个传统风味的产品出售至国际市场。 让更多的人品尝到母亲拿手的家乡菜肴--阮記传统风味桑拿鸡。
Yuen Kee origin and development
In the 1970s, Mr. Most of the local residents depend on agriculture and animal husbandry for their livelihoods. Yuen’s family also raised many chickens and ducks, his mother was a master at cooking good dishes, especially salted-steamed chicken is famous to every neighbourhood. Everyone must order the traditional and delicious salted-steamed chicken by his mother cooked on every festival. She also served with high-quality herbs such as Angelica sinensis, Chuan Gong, pepper, etc., to make the sauce is rich and flavorful. Yuen earned his living by engaging in the food industry in Ipoh. After working hard for a period of time, Mr. Yuen discovered that because he had been away from home for long time, he was nostalgic for his mother cooked salted steamed chicken with original medicinal materials. He didn't want such delicious traditional food to be lost, so he went back to his hometown to ask his mother method and formula of making salted steamed chicken. After his mother’s guidance, Mr. Yuen found out that the production process was time-consuming and inconvenient. In a busy life, simple and convenient methods is the most important. So he start to research the improved formula with "Convenience Plus Retention of Traditional Flavor". In 2013 year, Mr. Yuen had established a food branding as Yuen Kee, and successfully improved the formula, the traditional salted steamed chicken was renamed as "Yuen Kee Traditional Flavor Sauna Chicken". For keep the traditional flavor, free-range chicken is smear with bamboo salt and angelica herbs, steamed in a large pot. It not only retains the essence of the ingredients and also tonify the body. It can be served by steaming with the new packaging, which is convenient and time-saving. Yuan’s vision is bring this traditional flavor product to the international market, to let more people taste the traditional flavor of the sauna chicken, the best dishes by his mother.
