From family swiftlet house to independent ecosystem.
Co-founder Mey Sang is a true second-generation bird’s nest entrepreneur. She grew up surrounded by swiftlet houses, watching her parents’ generation rely on nature, traditional experience, manual harvesting, and small-scale trading to sustain the family business.
Harvesting by season. Hand-cleaning each nest. Selling through traditional channels. This is the authentic reality behind many Southeast Asian bird’s nest family businesses.
“A truly good bird’s nest does not need excessive decoration. What matters is honesty. And true honesty begins with controlling the source.”
Determined to elevate Cambodia’s bird’s nest industry, Mey Sang traveled to Malaysia to study modern swiftlet house systems, ecological management, and international-standard processing technologies from experienced veteran swiftlet farmers.
Upon returning to Cambodia, she built NIS NEST’s independently operated swiftlet ecosystem. From swiftlet house architecture, bird adaptation systems, ecological environment control, harvesting standards, raw material management, and quality systems, every critical step is directly managed by the NIS NEST team.