He has published articles on guitar-making in several newspapers over an eight-year period, and has appeared at guitar maker conventions in the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia, China and Malaysia.

Yong introduced Malaysian blackwood to other guitar makers during the 1998 GAL convention in Tacoma, Washington, United States.

Yong built a guitar almost entirely from monkeypod, which went on to win the blind listening test at the 2006 convention of the Guild of American Luthiers.

[3] Yong built almost an entire guitar of monkeypod, and in 2006 it won the blind listening test at the Guild of American Luthiers convention.

Artists who use Yong's guitars have included Don Alder, Farid Ali, Kent Nishimura, Hiroshi Masuda, Shun Ng, Wayan Balawan, Dan LaVoie and Okapi.