Video: Bo Wah Trading Company has been a Honolulu Hawaii Chinatown fixture for nearly 50 years 寶華貿易公司已成為夏威夷唐人街的標誌性建築近 50 年

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“My father immigrated from Hong Kong to Hawaii and then worked to [at a] grocery store [for] one year and then opened the Bo Wah in 1976,” said co-owner, Sammy Au.

We asked why his father opened a grocery store.
“Because he’s [a] businessman, he worked hard,” said Au.

Au followed his father, Tin Yeu Au, and moved to Hawaii in 1990.

Since then, he’s been working at the store and so has his son, Jacky.

“When I came here at age 11, I helped my grandfather doing [as a] cashier barely know [knew] any math,” said Jacky Au.

The store is named after Jacky Au’s grandmother, Bo, and his uncle, Wah.

Tin Yeu Au opened Bo Wah Trading Company in 1976.(The Au family)

When the store first opened, it mainly sold cooking supplies.

Their merchandise eventually expanded, selling a variety of ingredients, food, snacks and tea imported from different parts of Asia.

“One thing that my grandfather does, we learn from him is he go, he can talk to the suppliers in China,” said Jacky Au. “He goes there at least like three to four times a year and go [goes] to Taiwan. He just talks to the supplier. He just looks for the cheapest items.”

The patriarch of the Au family worked in the store until the age of 85.

He passed away in 2021, but his legacy lives on.

“Well, I’m not that [as] hardworking like [as] him, but our customers are mostly elderly as you can see. He kept the customer[s] more so I feel like I hope I can keep more, more customers, the younger generations.”

The annual Chinatown community cleanup is on Saturday, Aug. 23, from 9 to 11 a.m.

To register to volunteer, email mailto:info@chinesechamber.com. Write Chinatown Cleanup in the subject line and include your name and the number of people participating with you.
Cleanup volunteers will have the chance to win a gift card to various Chinatown businesses, including one from Bow Wah.