- Amoy Food
Amoy Food Limited (Chinese:淘化大同
Pinyin :táo huà dà tóng, abbr. 淘大) is a cookingsauce and condiments manufacturer inHong Kong . Its products, which now includes foodstuffs such as frozen foods and instant foods for heating in amicrowave oven , are sold around the world. It is owned byAjinomoto of Japan.Its former factory ground in
Ngau Tau Kok was sold in the 1970s and has since been turned into an apartment complex called theAmoy Gardens . It was one of the hotzones of infection during the 2003SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong.Name
Amoy (廈門) is the old English romanisation, based on the Min Nan pronunciation of the city inFujian ,China known in Mandarin asXiamen .History
In 1908, Tao Fa, the predecessor of the company, was founded in Xiamen for producing
soy sauce andmilk . In 1928, Amoy was set up in Hong Kong. In a 1947 advertisement, the company was named as Amoy Canning Corporation, Ltd. (香港淘化大同公司 Pinyin: Xiānggǎng Táohuà Dàtóng Gōngsī) with his factory in Ngau Tau Kok and the head office atBonham Strand inSheung Wan .In 1987, a
manufacturing plant was set up inTai Po Industrial Estate inTai Po . It was later acquired by the French dairy products companyDanone .Danone sold the company on January 12, 2006 to
Ajinomoto of Japan.ee also
Other food brands in
Hong Kong *
Vitasoy
*San Miguel Brewery Hong Kong Ltd. In 1997 an advert was created in response to the new brand of noodles called "straight to wok noodles".The adverts tagline was "straight to a wok with amoy".
External Reference
* [http://www.amoy.com/ Amoy Food]
* Source: Pinyin translated with [http://www.cozychinese.com/convert/ CozyChinese.COM]
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