Amoy Food

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Amoy Food Limited (Chinese:淘化大同 Pinyin:táo huà dà tóng, abbr. 淘大) is a cooking sauce and condiments manufacturer in Hong Kong. Its products, which now includes foodstuffs such as frozen foods and instant foods for heating in a microwave oven, are sold around the world. It is owned by Ajinomoto 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 the Amoy Gardens. It was one of the hotzones of infection during the 2003 SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong.

Contents 1 Name 2 History 3 See also 4 External Reference

[edit] Name

Amoy (廈門) is the old English romanisation, based on the Min Nan pronunciation of the city in Fujian, China known in Mandarin as Xiamen.

[edit] History

In 1908, Tao Fa, the predecessor of the company, was founded in Xiamen for producing soy sauce and milk. 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 at Bonham Strand in Sheung Wan.

In 1987, a manufacturing plant was set up in Tai Po Industrial Estate in Tai Po. It was later acquired by the French dairy products company Danone.

Danone sold the company on January 12, 2006 to Ajinomoto of Japan.

[edit] See 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".

[edit] External Reference

• Amoy Food
• Source: Pinyin translated with CozyChinese.COM

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