On the morning of 15 January 1857, residents of Hong Kong awoke to what seemed an ordinary day. As usual, loaves of fresh bread were delivered across the European quarter of Victoria, warm from the ovens of a popular Chinese-owned establishment, the Esing Bakery. By midday, however, hundreds were violently ill. Victims suffered nausea, vomiting, severe abdominal pain, dizziness, and general malaise. The cause of this sudden outbreak was not immediately clear. Only later did tests on the consumed bread reveal that it had been poisoned.
Esing Bakery, from The Illustrated London News. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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The Esing Bakery Poisoning of 1857
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