Founded in Hong Kong in 1978, it is one of the top ten brands of quick-frozen food, starting with the production of dumplings, and was acquired by General Mills of the United States in 1997
"Wan Chai Pier" is a quick-frozen food brand that belongs to General Mills Foods of the United States. The founder, Ms. Zang Kin-wo, originally started selling dumplings at a stall by the pier in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Ms. Zang Jianhe, also known as Ms Zang, came to Hong Kong from Qingdao to reunite with her husband in 1977 with her two young daughters. Unexpectedly, the husband ruthlessly left their mother and daughter behind, making their lives suddenly in trouble. Zang Jianhe only went out to work as a casual worker, sometimes even three part-time jobs, working seventeen or eighteen hours a day. Even so, it is difficult to get out of the predicament. Once she made dumplings for a friend who came to her house as a guest, and she from Qingdao has a family tradition of secret recipes and techniques for making dumplings. After eating the dumplings she made, the guests were full of praise and joked, you have such a good craft, making dumplings and selling them will make money. The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Zang Jianhe used to see street vendors selling noodles, and although the taste was only average, the business was good. So she made up her mind to make handmade dumplings to sell. So she took out the only few hundred yuan she had to buy a wooden cart and raw materials for making dumplings, and set up a stall by the pier in Wan Chai, Hong Kong to sell dumplings. At that time, she was alone in making dumplings, cooking dumplings, and selling dumplings, commonly known as a kick, and the hard work can be imagined. Because her dumplings are delicious, the price is not expensive, and the service is also very good. As time passed, there were many regular customers, and these regular customers brought in a lot of new customers. In just a few years, Miss Zang's dumplings at Wan Chai Pier have become well-known.
Later, she built a wooden house in the yard next to the dock and built a "cottage factory". It sells both hot water dumplings and raw water dumplings. In a single-parent family that is both a father and a mother, Zang Jianhe never forgets the responsibility on her shoulders, no matter how tired she is, she has to check her daughter's homework and conduct. Visit their school. The two daughters understood their mother, studied very seriously, and both went to Canada to go to university, and won a scholarship for themselves.
Zang Jianhe stayed on her Wan Chai Pier for a long time, and now, Wan Chai Pier Dumplings occupy 10% of Hong Kong's fresh dumpling market, 30% of the frozen dumpling market, and after cooperating with General Mills Company of the United States in 1997, Wan Chai Pier Dumplings then established production bases in Shanghai and Guangzhou, and launched hand-wrapped "Wan Chai Pier" dumplings, wontons and dumplings. Today, Wan Chai wharf dumplings occupy half of the frozen food market in South China, and have reached more than 20% of the market share in Beijing.
