{"id":68021,"date":"2026-07-12T04:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=68021"},"modified":"2026-07-12T04:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:15:58","slug":"what-is-walovi-erling-haaland-promoted-chinese-herbal-drink-with-200-years-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=68021","title":{"rendered":"What is Walovi? Erling Haaland-promoted Chinese herbal drink with 200 years of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/10\/64dbc511-86d4-4c66-971b-e162824378f7_c8edaed4.jpg?itok=CPSsCVCW&amp;v=1783663549\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The advert translates the traditional idea of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">yit hei<\/em><\/span> (also written as <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">yeet hay)<\/em>, or internal heatiness, into a visual joke, with Haaland breathing fire before cooling down with a sip of Walovi. It pitches the Chinese herbal tea as the perfect refreshment, whether one is sweating over a bubbling hotpot or a tense game of football.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Haaland, who has become one of the brand\u2019s global ambassadors, may have introduced it to many viewers as a football-season meme, but behind the catchy advertisement is a nearly 200-year-old brand based on the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">traditional Chinese medicine<\/span> (TCM) concept of <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">leung cha<\/em>, or cooling teas.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In TCM, the body is thought to accumulate excess internal heat from eating fried, greasy or spicy foods, staying up late or stress. Symptoms of this \u201cinternal heat\u201d include a sore throat, mouth ulcers, acne or indigestion, and cooling teas such as Walovi are supposedly formulated to restore this balance to the body.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">What is the history behind Walovi?<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Walovi appears under different names depending on the market: in Hong Kong, the brand is known as Wong Lo Kat in Cantonese, while mainland Chinese consumers know it as Wanglaoji in Mandarin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3360082\/what-walovi-erling-haaland-promoted-chinese-herbal-drink-200-years-history?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advert translates the traditional idea of yit hei (also written as yeet hay), or internal heatiness, into a visual joke, with Haaland breathing fire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[107,26,26374,26375,12230,2284,26373,59],"class_list":["post-68021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-chinese","tag-drink","tag-erling","tag-haalandpromoted","tag-herbal","tag-history","tag-walovi","tag-years","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}