Wall Paintings & Antique Door At Ho Yan Hor Museum, Ipoh.

Today's posting will be the last of the series on Ho Yan Hor museum. After having finished the 1st floor tour (click here to read), we came down by another steep stairway down to the front hall. The stairway was very steep that I have to hold on tight to the railing and took one step at a time all the way down.

 Wall painting of customers enjoying the herbal tea.

Take a look at the wall painting and pay attention to the black table and chair.

Here is a close up of the table and chair. Did you notice something about the table and chair. They have only 2 front legs each.

 Painting of herbal tea stall.

 Visitors buying gift packs of herbal tea. 

 My friends listening to the briefing by the lady in blue blouse.

 Keeping cool with Hor Yan Hor.

Symptoms of heatiness:

a) Sleep difficulty, waking up too early, feeling tired.

b) Feverish & irritable - mouth ulcers, sore throat, constipation.

c) Cold & Flu - fever, runny nose, headache.

 Only gift packs are being sold here. 

View of front wooden door from inside. See the wooden latches.

Old fashioned door, windows and air holes (above windows)

 Herbal Tea Stall outside the museum. 

We have come to the end of our visit to Ho Yan Hor museum.

We know how happy they are now because they stayed true

to him then, even though they suffered greatly for it.

Job is an example of a man who continued to trust

the Lord in sorrow; from his experiences we can see

how the Lord's plan finally ended in good,

for he is full of tenderness and mercy.

(James 5:11, The Living Bible-TLB)

Found this wall mural a short distance away from Ho Yan Hor museum.

Linking to Tuesday's Treasure & Image-in-ing.

More Treasures From Ho Yan Hor Museum, Ipoh.

If you have missed my previous post on my visit to Ho Yan Hor's Museum, Ipoh, you can click here to read about them. For today's post, I will take you to the 1st floor of the museum. After we have finished the kitchen area, there is a staircase leading to the 1st floor.

 Original staircase. Only limited amount of visitors allowed on the 1st floor at one time for safety reasons.

 Old fashioned windows

 The founder at his working desk.

 Old fashioned dial phone.

Antique table fan.

 Antique fan, safes, cabinets and typewriter.

 Antique "Royal" brand typewriter.

Antique Tea Urns

Antique Russian Samovar / Tea Urn (1950)

 Antique English Tea Urn (1900).

 Antique English Tea Urn (1930) 

Antique Herbal Tea Stall.

In the news.

 Dr. Ho's Calligraphy Equipment.

 Paintings by Dr. Ho. 

 Painting by Dr. Ho. 

 Bust of Dr. Ho accompanied by a brief biography.

A wooden stool made from a section of a tree trunk.

Linking to Tuesday's Treasure & Image-in-ing.

Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool:

What Temple can you build for me as good as that?

My hand has made both earth and skies, and they are mine.

(Isaiah 66:1-2, The Living Bible-TLB)

The Humble Beginning Of Ho Yan Hor Herbal Tea.

I am continuing with another post on my visit to Ho Yan Hor museum. Today's post is about the humble beginning of the Ho Yan Hor herbal tea factory and the making of the Ho Yan Hor herbal tea. To read the previous post, click here.

 The new factory built in 1954 at Kuala Kangsar Road.

 Ho Kai Cheong saw advertising as a vital part of marketing his product. Consequently over the years, many different advertisements hit the streets - many of which were born at his desk with his calligraphy brushes.

 Herb steamers and tea boiler

 Ho Kai Cheong and the tea packaging team

 The raw materials await the grinding and pulverising machine

Types of  Ho Yan Hor Tea Sachets

 Ho started as a cycling entrepreneur

 As business grew, so did the transport grew from a humble bicycle to a van.

The original Ho Yan Hor van, like most other examples of this model, has since disappeared into the world of scrap metal. Indeed, we believe there are less than 50 of these left in the world. As the cheapest commercial vehicle in the world, they became a popular workhorse with all trades and businesses. Despite this setback Ho Yan Hor's van has again hit the streets of Perak. "Albert", having been purchased from UK, imported and given the original 1 Treacher Street livery.

(excerpt taken from Ho Yan Hor museum)

 Marketing vehicles through the years.

Albert to prize winning van in UK

The following photos show the making of today's Ho Yan Hor herbal tea at today's Ho Yan Hor herbal tea building.

The methods employed to manufacture today's Ho Yan Hor herbal tea are a far cry from the early days at No. 1 Treacher Street. The coolies and the pretty packing girls in everyday clothes have gone - to be replaced by a blue-clad faceless team, all in the name of mechanisation, hygiene and quality control.

Step 1, Extraction - Raw materials are well screened to select premium quality leaves and herbs.

Step 2, Storage Tank - All selected herbs are put into the storage tank for drip brewing. Herbs are boiled to extract all the beneficial nutrients and minerals. 

Step 3, Mixing - Mixing the tea leaves with herbal extract.

Step 4, Drying - The mixture is dried in the Fluid Bed Dryer, to inhibit microbial growth.

Step 5, In Process Quality Control - IPQC is to ensure the uniformity and integrity of the herbal tea.

Step 6, Tea Bagging - The dried mixture is bagged into tea sachets by the fully automated machine.

Step 7, Cartoning - The automated packing machine will allocate 10 sachets into one unit box, and 48 unit boxes into one carton box.

Step 8, Quality Control - Finished products are tested by Quality Control to ensure its compliance with the stringent quality standards before release to the market.

Ready for the market. Types of herbal tea.

Green packaging herbal tea

Relax and Recover.

Relieves heatiness and common cold, allows self-healing.

Blue packaging herbal tea

Relax and Wind down.

Brown packaging herbal tea

Reduce body heat and cool down.

Achieve internal balance and enhance your health.

Linking to Tuesday's Treasure.

I will never lay aside your laws,

for you have used them to restore my joy and health.

(Psalm 119:93, The Living Bible-TLB)