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Celebrations
for Chinese New Year of the Pig begin on 16 February 2007 Wing Yip
plc currently supplies most of the UK's Chinese restaurant market, as
well as catering for the cooking enthusiast and has four superstores
in UK, plus an online shopping service.
They also have
recipe ideas and tips for hosting an Oriental banquet to celebrate
the occasion, as well as further information and explanations on
Chinese signs of the zodiac and Chinese New Year traditions.
WING YIP
FACT FILE :
o Mr Wing Yip
arrived from Hong Kong on a boat in 1959 and has since become one of
the UK's most successful Chinese businessmen.
o Eighteen
months later Wing and business partners opened a restaurant in a
former tea shop in Clacton-on-Sea. This was quickly followed by the
opening of three other restaurants and two takeaways in East Anglia.
o In 1970 Wing
Yip and his brother Sammy opened the UK's first specialist Chinese
grocer in the heartland of Birmingham. It supplied more than 1,000
different Chinese products initially to local Chinese families,
restaurants and takeaways.
o Wing Yip has
quickly become the UK's leading Chinese grocer and now has four key
sites - Birmingham, Manchester, Cricklewood and Croydon, employing
more than 300 staff.
o The
Birmingham store incorporates a wide range of amenities including a
Chinese restaurant, Chinese dentist, doctor, travel agent,
accountant, solicitor, bank and printer.
o Wing Yip has
an online shopping service which means customers can access more than
900 Wing Yip products and more than 150 Oriental recipes.
The address
for the service is www.wingyipstore.co.uk.
o Wing Yip
imports produce directly from the Far East, with each store stocking
more than 2,500 items ranging from cooking utensils, including woks
and chinaware, to a vast selection of Oriental sauces, meats, fish
vegetables, rice, herbs and spices, as well as more diverse products
such as chickens feet.
o In the
centre of Birmingham is a Chinese pagoda which was a gift from Wing
Yip and his brothers as a thank you to the people of Birmingham, the
city which enabled their business to become so successful and
provided a home for them and their families. The pagoda is hand
carved from solid granite and stands 40 ft high. Created in China, it
was shipped over to the UK in sections and assembled on site.
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