Alan (Shan Cheng) was born on February 22nd 1936, in Taipei, Taiwan. He was the second oldest sibling of three brothers and three sisters. His ancestry traces back to China and his parents migrated to Taiwan in the early 1900s.

As a young boy, Alan grew up in a traditional Taiwanese family setting during the Japanese Occupation of Taiwan. He was educated in Japanese and Taiwanese with influence from both cultures. He also served in the Taiwanese military and fought in a war against the Chinese Communist Party.

He was always a hard worker and worked at various jobs throughout his whole life and never stopped. His career spanned from pharmaceutical delivery to a loan officer in banking industry in Taiwan, to a chef in restaurant industry in Southern California. He progressively worked his way up to an owner, and opened a Mandarin restaurant in Laguna Beach in the mid-1980s.

Alan was a family-oriented man. He was close to his family and supported them through good and challenging times. He left a very comfortable life in Taiwan and pursued a dream by moving his own family to Lake Forest, California in the early 1980s. He wanted to provide more opportunities for them and a better place to live. He succeeded and was a perfect example of living the "American Dream."

A loving Dad, and a devoted husband of more than 50 years, and took care of his wife before becoming a widow in 2018. Alan is survived by his son, daughter, and two adult grandchildren.

Charming, easy-going, kindness, charismatic, selfless, and integrity were Alan's traits that everyone just couldn't get enough of. He made genuine friendships with prominent local church members, and became friends that supported him in his final years. Watching sports, Taiwanese soap opera, animals, gardening, and fishing were his favorite pastime hobbies.

Alan lived a full life of 89 years. He stayed healthy and active in his later years until he had liver cancer. His body was resilient and he won the cancer battle and was in remission. But he later passed away due to complications from aspiration pneumonia on August 14th 2025.

He will be laid to rest peacefully next to his wife at El Toro Memorial Park in Lake Forest. We will miss him dearly and he will always be in our hearts forever.