Heritage status of the building
Open House Taipei calls the red-brick factory a city-designated monument (市定古蹟). We found no Taipei City designation notice to confirm this, so the status is recorded as a claim.
有记名茶有記名茶
Wang Tea Youji
Dadaocheng tea house of the Wang family, from Anxi via Xiamen (1890) to Taipei (1907); keeps a charcoal-roasting room from the Japanese era.
- Kind
- merchant
- Based in
- Taipei
- Founded
- 1890
- Brands
- 有記名茶 (Wang Tea)
- 有記選庄 (export mark)
- 飲JOY
History#
- 1890王有記茶莊 opened in Xiamen (company account).
- 1907Second generation sets up in Dadaocheng, Taipei.
- 2004Dadaocheng factory converted into a shop.
- 2020WANGTEA LAB tea bar opens.
Also sold or written as 6#
Chinese variants
- 王有記茶行 / 王有記茶莊Wang You Ji — tea trading houseOlder names: the company calls the 1890 Xiamen shop 王有記茶莊; CNA and others write 王有記茶行.
Translations and trade names
- Wang Tea
- WANGTEA
- Wang's TeaCommon English rendering.
- Wang Tea (You Ji)
- Wang Tea (Youji Mingcha)
Names and ambiguities#
Notes#
The company's own history says the Wang family were Anxi tea people; 王敬輝 opened 王有記茶莊 in Xiamen in 1890, and his son 王孝謹 came to Taipei in 1907, choosing Dadaocheng for its river shipping. It worked as a refining factory exporting to Thailand and Japan, with export chests stamped FORMOSA and 有記選庄; CNA reports that a Bangkok shop is still run by the family's fourth generation. As exports declined the firm turned to domestic retail. The Dadaocheng factory became a shop in 2004, keeps a roasting room with over forty baskets for charcoal roasting, and later added a small museum and a tea bar (WANGTEA LAB, 2020). The current head, 王連源, is the fourth generation. Teas include Wenshan baozhong, Qingxin oolong, Tieguanyin and high-mountain oolong.