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Amoy Food Limited is a cooking sauce

Sauce

In cooking, a sauce is liquid, creaming or semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsus, meaning salted...

and condiments manufacturer in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

, China

China

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. Its products, which now includes foodstuffs such as frozen foods and instant foods for heating in a microwave oven

Microwave oven

A microwave oven is a kitchen appliance that heats food by dielectric heating, using microwave radiation to heat polarized molecules within the food...

, are sold around the world. It is owned by Ajinomoto

Ajinomoto

Ajinomoto Co. Inc. , is a Japanese food and chemical corporation which produces seasonings, cooking oils, TV dinners, sweeteners, amino acids and pharmaceuticals...

of Japan.

Its former factory ground in Ngau Tau Kok

Ngau Tau Kok

Ngau Tau Kok is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, located at the northern part of Kwun Tong District, next to Kowloon Bay. It covers Jordan Valley, Ngau Tau Kok and Upper Kwun Tong town centre. The population of Ngau Tau Kok exceeds 210,000...

was sold in the 1970s and has since been turned into an apartment complex called the Amoy Gardens

Amoy Gardens

Amoy Gardens is a high-density middle-class private housing estate in Hong Kong completed from 1981 to 1987...

. It was one of the hotzones of infection during the 2003 SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong.

Etymology

Amoy

Xiamen, or Amoy, is a city on the southeast coast of China.Amoy may also refer to:*Amoy dialect, a dialect of the Hokkien lects, which are part of the Southern Min group of Chinese languages...

(廈門) is the old English romanisation, based on the Min Nan

Hokkien

Hokkien is a Hokkien word corresponding to Standard Chinese "Fujian". It may refer to:* Hokkien dialect, a dialect of Min Nan Chinese spoken in Southern Fujian , Taiwan, South-east Asia, and elsewhere....

pronunciation of the city in Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

province, China

China

known in Mandarin as Xiamen

Xiamen

Xiamen , also known as Amoy , is a major city on the southeast coast of the People's Republic of China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city of Fujian province with an area of and population of 3.53 million...

History

In 1908, Tao Fa, the predecessor of the company, was founded in Xiamen for producing soy sauce

Soy sauce

Soy sauce is a condiment produced by fermenting soybeans with Aspergillus oryzae or Aspergillus sojae molds, along with water and salt...

and milk

Milk

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of many...

. 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 factory in Ngau Tau Kok and the head office at Bonham Strand

Bonham Strand

Bonham Strand is a combination of two streets in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong: Bonham Strand and Bonham Strand West ....

in Sheung Wan

Sheung Wan

Sheung Wan is an area in Hong Kong, located in the north-west of Hong Kong Island, between Central and Sai Ying Pun. Administratively, it is part of the Central and Western District...

.

50% of the company was acquired by Pillsbury in 1983. In 1988 it was reported to be the largest soy sauce maker in the area, producing 6,000 tonnes a year.

In 1987, a manufacturing plant was set up in Tai Po Industrial Estate

Tai Po Industrial Estate

Tai Po Industrial Estate is an industrial estate on the reclamation in Tai Po Hoi, surrounded by villages of Yue Kok, Kau Shi Wai, Tin Sam and Ha Hang on the former shore, in Tai Po District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is at the northeast of Tai Po Market and connected by Ting Kok Road. Its...

in Tai Po

Tai Po

Tai Po is an area in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It refers to the vicinity of the traditional market towns in the area presently known as Tai Po Old Market or Tai Po Kau Hui and the Tai Wo Town on the other side of the Lam Tsuen River, near the old Tai Po Market Station of the...

. It became wholly owned by the French dairy products company Danone in 1991.

Danone sold the company on 12 January 2006 to Ajinomoto

Ajinomoto

Ajinomoto Co. Inc. , is a Japanese food and chemical corporation which produces seasonings, cooking oils, TV dinners, sweeteners, amino acids and pharmaceuticals...

of Japan.

Etymology

History

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