Our Story

It started, as many good things do, with a grandmother. One of our founders grew up watching his grandmother savour Beluga caviar — the real thing, from the Caspian Sea. Each pearl was treated with a reverence that stayed with him long after.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, he returned after studying overseas and was struck by how difficult it was to find authentic Iranian caviar. What was available was often farmed overseas from Iranian sturgeon stock and labelled misleadingly as “Iranian”. The Caspian flavour — that distinctive, mineral-rich taste shaped by centuries of tradition — was missing.

So we went to the source. We found a farm outside Tehran that raises sturgeons in the native Caspian waters, using traditional methods passed down through generations. The farm holds direct export approval from the Iranian Fisheries Organisation — a certification very few farms have achieved. What started as a way to source caviar for our own table became HOMA.