In 2017, milk tea was declared as an item of “intangible cultural heritage” of Hong Kong. Hong Kong-style milk tea (港式奶茶 gong2 sik1 naai5 caa4) is a tea drink originated in restaurants called bing sutt (冰室 Cantonese: bing1 sat1) and cha chaan teng (茶餐廳 Cantonese: caa4 caan1 teng1) where local people like to go to …
Tea has become one of the popular beverages in Europe since the 17th century. Even coffee houses sold tea from China. The trade card above was produced by the English and Scottish Joint C.W.S. Tea. It showed first newspaper advertisement of tea which appeared in September 1658 in Mercurius Politicus. The advertisement as shown above …
The English East India Company (EIC), also known as the “Governor and Company of Merchants in London, trading into the East Indies,” was founded on 31 December 1600. The company was granted a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth which enabled it to have monopoly on trade with the East Indies. Historically, the term East Indies …
The postcard above was sent in 1907 from Singapore to the Custom House of Shanghai via Hong Kong. The Custom House, called 江海北關 in Chinese, in operation at that time was a red-brick building facing the Huangpu River. Completed in 1893 and located at the Bund (外灘), the centre of European powers, this western architecture …