Food Expo kicks off next week with inaugural Food Expo PRO
Four concurrent events return with grand line-up and new pavilions
The 33rd Food Expo, the seventh Beauty & Wellness Expo, the ninth Home Delights Expo with the new Food Expo PRO, and 14thHong Kong International Tea Fair will be unveiled on 17 August 2023 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, running alongside the International Conference of the Modernization of Chinese Medicine and Health Products. Sophia Chong, HKTDC Deputy Executive Director, announced the full programme and key highlights of this month’s events at today's press conference.
The Food Expo PRO is renamed to meet the needs of the food and beverage industry by showcasing the latest trends in specialised products, while exhibitors from all over the world will bring the newest products, services and technologies from their own countries. These include Korea's flavoured pickled seafood, Singapore's traditional coffee with unsweetened oat milk, Poland’s smooth and mild fruit-flavoured vodka, an edible sunscreen ingredient, and an essence of mushroom (Yun-zhi) product from the Chinese Medicine and Health Food zone.
The Hong Kong International Tea Fair showcases famous teas, tea products and tea wares from different regions, with specialties such as the modern version of Chaoshan Gongfu Tea, enriched and concentrated milk tea, and Japanese handcrafted Tetsubins (iron kettles) series, amongst others.
The Food Expo brings you the best of the world's cuisines, with a wide range of speciality food and beverages, including the Isey Skyr, the unqiue Icelandic yoghurt, 100% handmade and original tinned cakes, frozen cocktail ice lollies from the Netherlands and made-in-Hong Kong black truffle gelato.
The Beauty & Wellness Expo will showcase beauty, cosmetic, hairdressing, fitness and wellness products, including the Pulseroll Vibrating Massage Roller from the United Kingdom, the DR. SCHAFTER Advanced Derma Laser Skin Peel, the FOOTDISC Anti-Fatigue Insoles and the Sericin Poria Pore Refining Booster.
The Home Delights Expo will provide the public with a wide range of smart homes, kitchen appliances, kitchenware, tableware, and housewares, including the Hydrogen Plus Cold & Hot Purifier, MasterMind, an AI massage chair equipped with voice control and AI detection and bespoke massage functions, and a sterilisation machine for cleansing knives, chopsticks, and cutting boards by Zhang Xiao Quan.
Ticketing partner AlipayHK and Alipay representative, Keith Cheung (left), Head of Marketing, AlipayHK, meets Sophia Chong (right), Deputy Executive Director of the HKTDC at the press conference.