Wanglee family
The Wanglee family is a Thai family of Teochew Chinese descent. The family traces its origins to Tan Tsue Huang, of the Tan clan, who arrived in Siam during the reign of King Mongkut and established a successful business during the second half of the nineteenth century. He used overseas family networks to maintain trade routes with Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore and Saigon, and later expanded into rice milling and insurance. Tan settled in Bangkok in 1871 and married a daughter of the Poshyananda family. His second son, Tan Lip Buay, inherited the business, which became one of Siam's largest rice millers and exporters by 1920.
Today, the family's Wanglee House is recognized as an award-winning historic building. The former port next door, which used to serve the family business, was renovated and opened as the cultural attraction Lhong 1919 in 2017.
