This video briefly introduces the evolution of tea production and preparation processes, distinctive tea drinking customs and characteristic of tea making methods and utensils to describe that tea links to history and farming and its close ties with life, with the art and with culture.
This video introduces the history of Flagstaff House as well as the establishment and development of the Museum of Tea Ware. K.S. Lo also told about the story of his interest in tea ware.
More than 30 years ago, Vitasoy Group founder and then urban councillor K.S. Lo suggested conserving Flagstaff House - the former headquarters of the Commander of the British Forces - by turning it into the Museum of Tea Ware. K.S. Lo also donated 600 tea sets collected from China and overseas to the museum. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Asia's first tea ware museum, a year-long exhibition "From Soya Bean Milk to Puer Tea" was held in 2014 to showcase more than 80 tea sets and chart K.S. Lo's story as a tea connoisseur and collector.
In 1957, Hot Vitasoy and the accompaniment of customised milk warming cabinets were first introduced in Hong Kong. Customers immediately embraced this seasonal offering and hot Vitasoy continues to be in high demand today.
Vitasoy Group founder K.S. Lo, who was then an Urban Councillor, advocated the establishment of Asia's first tea ware museum and donated his collection to the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware.
Company shareholders and staff pictured at the Hong Kong Soya Bean Products Company grand opening. Five shareholders in the front row (left to right): Chan Chun Lam, Shiu Wai Ming, K.S. Lo, Chan Nam Cheong and Kwan Yim Chor.
Hong Kong Park, covers an area of 8 hectares, is officially opened in May 1991. The project was undertaken at a cost of $398 million. The present site of the Park was originally a garrison named Victoria Barracks. In 1979, the Government decided that the portion of the garrison near the foot of the hill should be used for commercial development and construction of government buildings while the mid-level portion be jointly developed by the former Urban Council and the former Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club for the provision of a park.
