Herbal tea shop

Since the herbal tea shops were deemed as a symbol of traditional Chineseness, they were abandoned for the sake of establishing a city of modernity and internationality.

[3] The two selection criteria of the formulas are that they must have more than eighty years of history and be passed on continuously with strict protective measures.

Nineteen herbal tea shop brands were also included in the list and some of them are located in Hong Kong.

Due to the change in public's taste and habits, herbal tea shops have to include other snacks and drinks in their menus to diversify their products.

Many of their products incorporate Chinese medicinal ingredients with Western desserts or snacks, in hopes to modify their business model and cope with the rise of health-consciousness and the people's ever-changing eating habits.

This symbol originated from a traditional Chinese story, in which the liquid in a calabash-shaped bottle cured sick people.

Later in the 1950s, the shops used thermo flasks and metal tanks to store and maintain the temperature of the herbal tea.