Ho King-yuen, who brought Mister Softee to Hong Kong and imported the city's first ice cream van, passed away in Perth, Australia at the age of 98.

The first Mister Softee truck opened in 1970 at a football pitch in Tsuen Wan, selling ice cream cups for 50 HK cents

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