Roger and Ming Ulrich

Roger and Ming Ulrich

     Ming is owner and operator of the  Tea House & Gift Shoppe. The store is located at 396 Penn Avenue in West Reading, Pa., where she sells fine teas, tisanes, chai, coffee, and unique gift items, including gift baskets and  fine teapots, tea sets, and other accessories.  Ming, who hosts small tea parties by appointment,  at one time owned and operated the Sze Chuan Restaurant in Cumru Township where she pioneered in the introduction of authentic Chinese cuisine to the Berks County market. She has also operated Reading-area outlet stores where she sold candy and toys. Born Hsu Ming Hsia in Nanking, China, she was raised in Taiwan, and moved to the U.S. in 1969.      


Ming and Roger
    Roger is a licensed minister working as student pastor at Immanuel United Church of Christ, Shillington, and completing a Master of Divinity degree at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Previously, he interned at Bausman Memorial UCC, Wyomissing. A former newspaper writer and editor, he also has been a radio newscaster and talk show host. He retired as electronic media manager of  Reading Eagle Company and is a former president of the Pennsylvania Universalist Convention,  a director of  Goodwill Industries, Keystone Area, and former chair of Goodwill of  Mid-Eastern Pennsylvania.  He  holds a management degree, summa cum laude, from Alvernia College

 

Right: Ming holds

grandson Aidan Joseph Trapasso. 

 

 

 


Below Aidan with his mom Susan (Ulrich) Trapasso and dad Jody Trapasso.

 

Left:  Grandson Chase Martin Ulrich with his mom Jenn Dickens.

 


 


Below: Chase's dad  Bobby with Chase and Jenn.  


Roger and Ming's daughter Tina Ulrich
 and friend Bill LeClaire.

Roger and Aidan.

Chase

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Email:
  

Roger
  rogulrich@verizon.net 


Ming ming@teahousegifts.com