The ‘kopitiam’ (coffee shop) was a male-dominated meeting place where bachelors congregated for breakfast consisting of toast, eggs and a beverage. It has become an important feature of Singapore’s landscape since the 1950s.This is a porcelain saucer typically used for serving hot coffee and tea, often drunk with sugar and condensed milk. Customers would cool their beverage by pouring it into the saucer and drinking from it. Porcelain cups and saucers bearing floral motif prints or logos of the tea and coffee suppliers were distributed by the beverage companies together with coffee powder and tea leaves.Boh was founded by J.A. Russell, who arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with his father in 1890. In 1929, Russell saw tea as a potential crop for the Malaysian economy, which was then heavily reliant on rubber and tin. Together with A.B. Milne, a tea planter from Ceylon, Russell was granted a concession of land in Cameron Highlands, which was later transformed into a tea garden.
