'It's been going for a long, long time': Family to sell Hobart icon Wing & Co after 60 years

A family who has owned an iconic Asian grocery in Hobart for more than 60 years has decided to sell up shop, bringing the legacy of the Foong family to an end.It has been managed by the Foong family since the 1950sJoseph Chiu See Foong opened Wing & Co in Sandy Bay after he moved to Australia in the 1950s, and it has been owned and managed by the family ever since.

The grocery was a popular milk bar and fruit and vegetable shop in the centre of Hobart, before it moved to Sandy Bay in 1974."I was probably more trouble than I [was] worth, mind you," he said. "For a while it was just fruit and vegetables, and then dad started importing Chinese canned foods and that just expanded."At that time, he started importing transistors and he was one of the early people to sell transistor radios and small electronic items like that."

His father was born in Guangzhou in China in 1919 and survived World War II and the Japanese occupation, before migrating to Australia. He went into a partnership to establish Wing and Co in the mid-1950s and he built a house and married Laraine Henry."Dad was never home. He spent just about all of his time there," he said.His father worked hard to get his widowed sister, niece and nephew out from China before the Communist Party took over in 1949.He and his wife had six children and sponsored students and relatives at their home.

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