The Story of Hong Kong Soya Products

Silky-smooth and packed with nutrition — tofu is surely a favourite of readers young and old! Tofu and soya foods of every kind appear constantly on our dining tables. But do you know who invented tofu? How is tofu made? How do Hong Kong’s local beancurd factories and soya-food companies operate? And which dishes cooked with soya products have you tasted?

Welcome, everyone, to the Hong Kong Brand Museum – The Story of Soya Products online exhibition hall, and to our newly published parent-child picture book. Through brand stories unique to Hong Kong, we invite you to discover the development of the city’s soya products industry — exploring how local brands have tirelessly developed and refined soya products to carry on a food culture built on soya, how they have broken with tradition to keep pace with the times, and the fascinating soya stories of the wider world.

Come! Together, through the parent-child picture book Hong Kong Brand Museum – The Story of Soya Products:
let us discover the many delights of tofu and soya products and their food culture,

trace how soya products have been made from ancient times to the present,

walk from the gai si (街市, wet market) to the supermarket and find soya products of every description,

then head home to sprout some beans and make a dessert,

and even try a little coagulation science experiment of your own!

~ Readers big and small, welcome to the Hong Kong Brand Museum’s exhibition The Story of Soya Products! ~

Hong Kong Brand Museum – The Story of Soya Products, a parent-child picture book newly published in March 2023:

About the book:
Hall 1 · The origins of soya products
Hall 2 · Brand stories of Hong Kong’s soya products industry
Hall 3 · Product and packaging creativity in Hong Kong’s soya products industry Hall 4 · Small soya facts, big meanings
Hall 5 · Around the world with Tofu Boy
Hall 6 · The little laboratory

Available at major bookshops and on the publisher’s website!

～Learn more about the Hong Kong Brand Museum parent-child picture book series～

Soya trivia

Small soya shops doing CSR too?

Soya shops with the same name — which is the real one?

A stink both loved and hated — stinky tofu

Refined fermented beancurd from Kung Wo and other brands, an exemplar of “Chinese cheese”

Soya pulp is not rubbish! Green companies turn it into eco-friendly products

Kung Wo, Yee Wo and Liu Tung Hop keep to the stone mill — all for the true taste of soya

Brand stories of Hong Kong’s soya products industry

The birth of a beancurd factory — Kung Wo Beancurd Factory

Further reading: the brand story of Kung Wo Beancurd Factory (公和荳品廠)

The tofu stall in the gai si — the brand story of Top Soya (壹品豆品)

Further reading: the brand story of Top Soya (壹品豆品)

Nutritious “milk” everyone can afford

Further reading: our interview with Vitasoy (維他奶)

Further reading