Video Editing,
Production,
Photography,
& Corporate Storytelling
Episode 01: The Tales of Sugarbun
SugarBun is Sarawak’s very own homegrown fast-food chain. It has been an iconic fixture of many Sarawakian’s childhoods for over four decades. To learn more about today’s SugarBun, we flew to Kota Kinabalu, the land below the wind.
It's 1957, Kuching, Sarawak, and the land is still under British rule. A group of businessmen has just bought a beverage manufacturing franchise from an American company, Green Spot International. Its signature product was orange juice.
In this week’s episode, we trace the story of how a simple drink made its way from a family home to small-town coffee shops, and, finally, to supermarkets overseas.
To learn more about this specific variety, we set out from our home base in Kuching to meet the Lun Bawang rice farmers - the people behind the hands that have nurtured the plains of Ba'kelalan for generations.
A single mother who founded one of Sarawak’s highly lucrative businesses of bird’s nest farming, providing not just a delicacy made of bird spittle to the rest of the world but also employment.