Haw par corporation
Aw kah peng husband
Tiger balm owner!
"What I have in mind, will be unique, like nothing anybody has seen. We shall call it after us, Har Par Villa. We will be remembered for generations to come" - Aw Boon Haw ~ 1934
- Aw Boon Haw whose name means "gentle tiger", was also nicknamed the "Tiger Balm King".
- Aw Boon-Haw (Chinese: 胡文虎; pinyin: Hú Wénhǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô͘ Bûn-hó͘; born 1882 in Rangoon, Indian Empire – died 1954 in Hong Kong), OBE, was a Burmese Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for introducing Tiger Balm.
- He was the son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu-Kin, a herbalist from Zhongchuan, YongDing, Fujian Province in China.
- Aw migrated to Singapore in 1926, where he began the business of Tiger Red Balm with his brother, Aw Boon-Par.
- It is believed that Boon Haw and his brother, Aw Boon Par, inherited their father's recipe for a soothing oriental ointment.
However, various rumours concerning the origins of the balm pervades. There are suggestions that the recipe came