Est.1840

A soy sauce brewery
built like a palace.

Six generations of wooden-barrel brewing in the mountains of Northeast China — now crafting OEM & private-label soy sauce at GFSI-certified scale.

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1840
Founded · six generations
180–360
Days of barrel fermentation
3×
GFSI certifications — BRCGS · FSSC 22000 · SQF
40+
Recipes in production
100,000 t
New-plant annual capacity
Outside · Inside

Heritage on the outside.
Precision on the inside.

Most soy sauce factories look like tank farms. Ours looks like the sauce garden it descends from — and runs like the certified food plant your QA team expects.

Palace-style Haoji brewery hall with painted eaves, snowy mountains and traditional courtyard railings
Outside

A working brewery in courtyard form

Painted eaves, grey-tile halls and winter mountains in the traditional style of the original 1840 Song family sauce garden.

Rows of giant white-pine fermentation barrels inside a modern clean production hall
Inside

White-pine barrels, cleanroom conditions

Hundreds of giant wooden fermentation barrels inside a modern, hygienic production hall — slow craft at industrial scale.

The Craft

Brewed the slow way, in white pine

Naturally brewed from whole non-GMO soybeans and wheat — no MSG, no preservatives, no caramel colour. Time does the work.

Golden koji grain inside stainless steel koji-making equipment
STEP 01

Koji, made in stainless

Whole soybeans and wheat are steamed and cultured in closed stainless-steel koji rooms — the modern, controlled start to a very old process.

Dense rows of wooden fermentation barrels
STEP 02

180–360 days in the barrel

The mash ferments in giant white-pine barrels. The wood's micro-pores let the culture breathe through the seasons, building depth no steel tank can rush.

Automated bottling line
STEP 03

Filled on automated lines

Pressing, filtration and filling run on automated lines under full traceability — every batch lab-tested on site before release.

"The wooden-barrel technique has been passed down since Song Yukun first developed it in 1840 — today it is listed as Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage."

Craft recognised by the Jilin Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage register; brand certified as a China Time-honored Brand by the Ministry of Commerce (2024).
Food Safety

Certified to the standards your buyers audit against

Three GFSI-benchmarked certifications held simultaneously — the documentation pack your QA and compliance teams need is ready on request.

BRCGS
Global Standard for Food Safety
GFSI benchmarked
FSSC 22000
Food Safety System Certification
GFSI benchmarked
SQF
Safe Quality Food Program
GFSI benchmarked
CNAS Laboratory
On-site laboratory accredited by the China National Accreditation Service
Every batch tested
China Time-honored Brand
中华老字号 — awarded by China's Ministry of Commerce, 2024
Heritage
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Wooden-barrel brewing craft, Jilin Provincial register
Craft

Independently verifiable: our house is featured in the China Time-honored Brand Museum of the Ministry of Commerce. Certificates and test reports supplied with every quotation.

Products

The brew is ours. The brand is yours.

Our domestic retail line shows what leaves this brewery. For OEM partners, the same sauces are bottled under your brand, your label, your format.

Premium first-grade light soy sauce, 500 mL

Premium Light Soy · "Yipinxian"

First-grade umami · amino nitrogen ≥ 0.8 g/100 mL

Superior light soy sauce, 1 L

Superior Light Soy Sauce

Everyday seasoning · amino nitrogen ≥ 1.1 g/100 mL

Braising soy sauce, 500 mL

Braising Soy Sauce

Replaces dark soy + caramel in one pour

Black soybean soy sauce, 500 mL

Black Soybean Soy Sauce

Single-bean character, clean label

Quality technicians on a stainless steel platform inside the brewery
OEM / Private Label

Built for partners who start with one container

  • Trial-friendly MOQs — start small, scale when your market answers.
  • Custom formulation — sodium-reduced, sweeter or lighter profiles, natto- and mushroom-infused variants; 40+ recipes in production.
  • Your format — retail bottles from 235 mL to 1 L, foodservice packs, and bulk supply for processors.
  • Label & compliance support — bilingual documentation, batch test reports, export paperwork handled with our partners.
  • Direct line to the owners — decisions in days, not committees. English, Chinese and Korean spoken.
Since 1840

Six generations, one craft

1840

The first barrels

Song Yukun develops wooden-barrel soy sauce brewing at the family sauce garden in Chaoyangchuan, Yanbian.

1930s

Craft survives war

The third generation carries the technique across Jilin through occupation and upheaval.

2018

The modern company

Sixth-generation heir Song Minghan founds Haoji Food Brewing Co. to scale the family craft.

2024

China Time-honored Brand

The Ministry of Commerce certifies Song Family Sauce Garden as 中华老字号.

Today

A food-industry park

A new campus in Wangqing County brews at 100,000-ton scale — in wooden barrels, as always.

Terroir

Why Northeast China brews differently

The painted ceremonial gate of the Haoji brewery campus

Changbai Mountain cold-spring water

The brewery draws its water from the cold springs of the Changbai range — soft, mineral-clean water that lets the fermentation speak.

Black-soil, non-GMO soybeans

Whole soybeans from Northeast China's black-soil plains — the region's signature crop, never defatted meal.

Four true seasons

Hot summers and −20 °C winters slow the barrel fermentation into distinct seasonal phases, the rhythm this craft was built around.

A bridge to Northeast Asia

Based in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture: bilingual Chinese-Korean teams and a food culture shared with Korea and Japan.

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