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EDITION 010 · 22–27 SEPT 2026

The problem is not your people.
It is that your standard was never made visible.

Six days inside Pang Dong Lai — watching three words on a wall become a standard you can actually run.

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Pang Dong Lai Business Awakening Journey Edition 010, 22 to 27 September 2026, Zhengzhou and Xuchang, six days five nights

Tour Leader: Jesson Lim · Special Guest: Matthew Lim, Principal of MLA

DOCUMENTED ON SITE

These are not stock images
they are our own delegates, on the ground

Multiple groups of Malaysian business owners and management teams have already walked through Xuchang with us.

Bino EduTour delegates outside the Pang Dong Lai supermarket, Jinhui branch

Pang Dong Lai Supermarket, Jinhui branch — Malaysian delegation group photo

Opening ceremony group photo Crowds inside the Pang Dong Lai Angel City atrium Delegates at the golden wings sculpture Delegates trying freshly made snacks in store Customer traffic inside the Pang Dong Lai mall Delegates on stage during the opening session Delegates at the Angel City plaza Shelving and shoppers inside the Pang Dong Lai store Welcome banner for the Malaysian business delegation MKA Group corporate delegation at Angel City
MINDSET SHIFT

This is not a retail sightseeing trip

The value is not the store itself. The value is what your management team sees, aligns on and executes once they are back.

THE OLD FRAME

  • Visiting a famous retail company
  • Touring a benchmark business
  • A memorable company trip
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THE MORE VALUABLE FRAME

  • A reset of your operating standard
  • A visible model of customer trust
  • A benchmark you can execute against

A learning journey designed for leadership teams —
to rethink service standards, customer trust, employee culture and operating discipline.

WHY PANG DONG LAI

Its value is not its scale

It is that here, the values are visible.
Not on the wall, but in what every employee does, every day.

The Pang Dong Lai Angel City building with visiting delegates

The most common reaction after one full walkthrough: so this really can be done.

THE CULTURAL ENGINE

This business is held up
by three words that are actually practised

Pang Dong Lai has turned human values into operating standards that can be repeated.

FREEDOM
Freedom

Teams are trusted to solve problems. Systems exist to support people, not to restrict them.

LOVE
Love

Treating customers and staff well is treated as a commercial commitment to be honoured, not a slogan.

DIGNITY
Dignity

Respect, trust and emotional safety are what allow a service standard to hold over the long term.

THE 4 LEARNING DIMENSIONS

The teams that gain the most
are not just looking at a store

They are decoding the logic that makes the whole experience possible.

01

Extreme Detail

Operational details that look trivial are precisely what expose the invisible system behind customer trust.

02

Employee Dignity

Front line behaviour changes only when staff are genuinely respected and supported, never through lectures.

03

Emotional Connection

This store is deliberately designed to feel warm, human and memorable — and that design can be taken apart.

04

Leadership Philosophy

Culture only becomes believable when every decision the owner makes reinforces the same set of values.

THE HIDDEN COST

A weak culture is not just an HR issue
it is a cost that keeps draining

It appears on no line of your profit and loss statement, yet it consumes margin every day.

Inconsistent service — the customer’s second visit is a completely different experience
Disengaged staff — still in the role, no longer invested, doing the minimum
Weak complaint recovery — one complaint costs an entire chain of word of mouth
Misaligned management — a layer is missing between what leadership says and what the front line does
Culture reduced to a slogan — on the wall for years, taken seriously by nobody

The value of Pang Dong Lai is that it gives you a visible reference —
so you know what execution actually looks like.

CASE STUDIES · TAP TO SWITCH

After they returned
they actually changed something

Five Malaysian companies that turned what they saw at Pang Dong Lai into practice inside their own organisations.

BMS Organics
MKA Group
Mad Bebek
Melody Kindyland
Hairstory International
CASE 01 · BMS ORGANICS

Turning “look after the customer”
into an executable line of accountability

CEO Terry Lee · implemented after visiting Pang Dong Lai

WHAT THEY DID

  • Late delivery — the customer is compensated directly with a cash voucher
  • Food leakage — the company absorbs it rather than passing it to the customer
  • Protect the customer’s trust first, establish fault afterwards

THE RESULT

  • Every branch holds a Google rating above 4.5★ organically
  • No gifts were exchanged for reviews
CASE 02 · MKA GROUP

From 30 managers
to three delegations and 85 middle managers

After CEO Bruce Lee brought his core leadership once, the learning spread across the group

DELEGATION SIZE

  • First trip → 30 management staff
  • Second trip → 65 management staff
  • Third trip → 85 middle managers
  • Vietnam · Thailand · Taiwan · Singapore · Philippines · Indonesia

THE RESULT

  • The original Q3 sales target was met in the first half of the year
  • Noticeably stronger internal alignment
  • A more stable company atmosphere
  • Love and Freedom genuinely embedded in daily operations
CASE 03 · MAD BEBEK

“Combo C”
a meal that requires no explanation

A practice drawn directly from the Pang Dong Lai principles of dignity and empathy

HOW IT WORKS

  • A customer in financial difficulty only has to say “Combo C”
  • No questions are asked in store
  • Staff quietly serve a complimentary meal

THE REAL INTENT

  • The point is not to provide a meal
  • It is to protect a person’s dignity
CASE 04 · MELODY KINDYLAND

Treating trust
as an operating strategy

CEO Samuel Swea brought a 30 person management team to align together

WHAT THEY DID

  • Birthday leave for staff
  • One month free trial enrolment for parents
  • An unconditional refund policy
  • Customer complaints moved back to top priority

THE RESULT

  • Higher customer satisfaction
  • Improved staff morale
  • Tighter internal alignment
CASE 05 · HAIRSTORY INTERNATIONAL

More outlets opening
while care for staff kept thinning

The company recognised the problem itself, mid expansion

WHAT THEY IDENTIFIED

  • Revenue growing while employee care was regressing
  • A culture that cannot carry scale will start to crack
  • Repair the culture first, discuss the next outlet after

THE RESULT

  • Markedly stronger internal culture
  • Greater staff empowerment
  • A new monthly revenue record
Show me how they did it

Edition 010 · 22–27 September 2026 · seats are limited

TRAVELLING WITH A MIXED TEAM

Bring your whole team.
Nobody sits this one out.

A Malaysian management team is rarely uniform. The programme is arranged so that every member joins the same visits, eats at the same table, and follows the same explanation in real time.

01 · MUSLIM FRIENDLY

A Muslim friendly journey

The programme is run as a Muslim friendly journey, so a mixed Malaysian management team can travel together without anyone having to opt out.

02 · HALAL MEALS

Halal food provided

Halal meals are provided throughout the itinerary. Dietary requirements are collected at registration, not sorted out on the day.

03 · INTERPRETERS

Our own interpreters on site

Interpreters travel with the group. Every visit is explained in a language your team understands, as it happens — nothing is lost in the room.

Delegates following a live walkthrough through wireless receivers, so everyone hears the same explanation.

ON-SITE FOOTAGE · TAP FOR SOUND

Unedited footage from the floor

No soundtrack, no voiceover. Recorded by delegates on the day of the visit.

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PAST DELEGATES · 37 FEEDBACK FORMS

What they saw at Pang Dong Lai
was not only Pang Dong Lai

More importantly, they saw the service, staffing and management problems inside their own companies.

9.27/10
Core Pang Dong Lai visit
9.72/10
On-site interpretation
37forms
Verified delegate responses
The biggest change afterwards was that I started noticing how I treat my own staff.
Customer first can actually be written into a process, rather than left to an employee’s conscience.
I came back with more than ideas — also a group of owners working on the same problem.

Verbatim feedback from past delegates of the Pang Dong Lai Business Awakening Journey · based on 37 feedback forms

WHO THIS IS BUILT FOR

This journey
is not designed for everyone

We work with four types of company. If yours is one of them, these six days will land hard. If not, we will tell you so directly.

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CLIENT 01

Companies with unstable service

  • Clear experience gaps between outlets, branches or teams
  • Good service depends on a few individuals rather than a system
  • Complaints are handled to a different standard every time
  • Standards slip the moment the owner stops watching
The issue is not a shortage of good people.
It is the absence of a standard that actually runs.
02
CLIENT 02

Companies in expansion

  • Growing from one or two outlets to five, ten or more
  • What used to run on unspoken understanding is now failing
  • Culture is diluted and new hires cannot pick it up
  • Revenue climbs while internal order declines
Once you scale,
culture can no longer travel by word of mouth from the owner.
03
CLIENT 03

Owners who want their team aligned

  • The owner understands it, the team has not caught up
  • Every attempt at reform stalls
  • Missing a live example everyone can understand
  • Management needs a shared vocabulary
The hardest thing to change is not the system.
It is getting everyone to see the same thing at the same time.
04
CLIENT 04

Family businesses and successors

  • The successor wants reform, the previous generation sees risk
  • A wide perception gap between old and new teams
  • Wanting to turn people-first into an actual system
  • Needing a reference point both sides respect
Succession is not difficult because of the handover.
It is difficult because the standard still depends on one generation.
FOR DELEGATES WHO REGISTER

Bonus #1: the Pang Dong Lai Study Tour Handbook

Every delegate who registers for Edition 010 receives a printed handbook built specifically for this itinerary — not a generic travel guide, but a working tool that turns six days of observation into a document you can act on.

Cover design for the Pang Dong Lai Business Awakening Tour, Edition 010

All Edition 010 collateral, including the Handbook, is designed and produced in-house.

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The same budget
buys you what, exactly

YOUR OPTIONWHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET
A local management courseA theory you understand but never see
A company retreatA set of photographs and a memory
A standard corporate visitA walkthrough, a briefing and a group photo
Bino Pang Dong Lai, Edition 010On-site breakdown + reconstruction of the operating logic + daily debriefs + an action list to take home + a room of owners working on the same problem

What you are buying is not a trip to Zhengzhou.
It is six days to decide whether your company
is going to start building standards properly.

WHAT THE FEE COVERS

What the fee covers, itemised

Included

  • Full six day, five night programme
  • Hotel accommodation, twin sharing, 5 nights
  • Meals as per itinerary, halal provided
  • Coach transfers throughout
  • Pang Dong Lai corporate visit arrangements
  • On-site breakdown sessions and interpretation
  • Daily debrief sessions
  • Tour leader accompanying the group throughout

Not included

  • Return flights
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenditure
  • Single room supplement, on request
Stated plainly: no shopping stops and no sales pitches at any point. Every ringgit of the fee goes into the learning and the experience.
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Delegates on stage during the opening session Inside the Pang Dong Lai store Delegates at the Angel City plaza Delegates trying freshly made snacks Customer traffic inside the mall Delegates at the golden wings sculpture Opening ceremony group photo The Angel City atrium
FREQUENTLY ASKED

What people ask before registering

I am not in retail. Is there anything here for me?

Yes, and usually more than expected. What you observe is not shelf layout. It is how service standards are set, how employees are treated, how complaints are recovered, and how culture turns into daily action. Manufacturing, food and beverage, education, services and professional firms face the same class of problem, and past delegates have come from across all of them.

Is this a corporate holiday or a learning programme?

It is a learning programme. The itinerary alternates between on-site observation, live breakdown sessions and daily debriefs, with the objective that you return holding an action list you can execute immediately, rather than a set of photographs.

Is the programme Muslim friendly?

Yes. The journey is run as a Muslim friendly programme and halal meals are provided throughout the itinerary. Dietary requirements are collected at registration so they are confirmed in advance rather than sorted out on the day. If your team has specific requirements, raise them with Eric before you register and we will confirm what can be arranged.

My team does not read Chinese. Will they follow the visits?

Yes. Our own interpreters travel with the group, and every visit is explained in a language your team understands as it happens. On-site interpretation was rated 9.72 out of 10 by past delegates.

My company only has around ten people. Is the scale gap too wide?

No. The most valuable thing to observe at Pang Dong Lai is how a single action is executed identically every time, which matters as much for a ten person company as a thousand person one. The on-site breakdown is brought down to a level a smaller business can apply.

Can I bring my core team?

Strongly recommended, and it is the most effective way to use the programme. An owner understanding it alone is not enough to drive change; the team seeing it together is what moves the organisation. MKA Group and Melody Kindyland in the case studies both did exactly this. For group arrangements, speak to Eric directly.

Is the itinerary rushed?

The six days and five nights are full, but not hurried. Coach transfers are provided throughout, and evenings retain time to process and exchange.

Do I need a visa?

Malaysian passport holders currently enjoy visa-free entry to China, so a separate visa is generally not required. Policy at the time of departure applies, and we will help you confirm this after registration.

How are flights and insurance handled?

The fee excludes return flights and travel insurance. After registration we provide recommended flights and booking assistance so the group arrives together. Travel insurance can be purchased independently, and we are happy to advise.

Can I have a single room?

Yes. The fee is quoted on twin sharing. If you require a single room, message Eric on WhatsApp for the supplement.

What is the Study Tour Handbook?

It is a printed, bilingual companion built specifically for this itinerary, carrying structured on-site observation checklists across categories such as facilities, service and culture, with space to record your own notes against each one. It turns six days of observation into a working document rather than a set of memories, and it is provided to delegates who register for Edition 010.

What does it cost?

The current rate is shared on request, together with the full itinerary and a breakdown of what the fee covers, so you are comparing like for like rather than a number in isolation. Message Eric on WhatsApp at +6018-3820 616 and he will send all three. Return flights and travel insurance are not included.

How do I register, and how is payment made?

Message Eric on WhatsApp at +6018-3820 616. We will send the registration form, full itinerary and payment details. Registration is completed on bank transfer, with the receipt confirmed over WhatsApp.

Does it end once we return?

No. The purpose of the daily debriefs is that you return holding an action list built for your own company. Delegates also stay in contact afterwards, and a number of collaborations and referrals have started from within a single group.

IN CLOSING

Does your company want
another corporate trip
or a higher operating standard?

Pang Dong Lai matters because it lets a management team see with their own eyes
what customer first actually looks like once it becomes operating reality.
That is why these six days are capable of changing a business.

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