Mow Lee Shing Kee & Co. was founded in 1856 by members of the Pon family at 745 Sacramento Street, when San Francisco's Chinatown was still finding its shape. The shop sold cured pork and dried provisions to the laborers, merchants, and miners of Gum Saan — the Gold Mountain.茂利號腊味創立於一八五六年，由番氏家族於沙加緬度街七四五號創辦。彼時，三藩市唐人街尚在草創之初。本號專營臘味乾貨，供奉勞工、商賈、礦夫，是「金山」初代華人之口糧。

The 1906 earthquake and fire flattened Chinatown. Mow Lee rebuilt — first at 730 Grant Avenue, then between 1949 and 1953 settling into 774 Commercial Street, inside the post-quake Six Companies Building of 1907. We have not moved since.一九零六年大地震焚毀唐人街，本號隨眾重建。先遷都板街七三零號，後於一九四九至一九五三年間，遷入 Commercial 街七七四號（一九零七年災後重建之中華六大公司樓）。自此再未遷址。

Six generations have stood behind this counter — Pon Dai Guen, Pon Get, Pon Yee Zhong, Yee Dor Lam & Tina Jew, Jian Lian Cheng & Pun Wun Lee, and today George, Gerald, Warren, and Lien Lee. The recipes have not changed. Neither have we.六代人守此櫃枱：番大根、番杰、番義忠、余多林與周婷、鄭健聯與李潘穩，及今日之李哲、李傑勞、李偉倫、李蓮。配方未改，吾家未變。