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A sweet Taiwanese drink nicknamed in honor of a Hong Kong celebrity, bubble tea – also known as boba tea – has become an unstoppable worldwide trend since it was invented in the 1980s.
According to Al Jazeera, bubble tea has become synonymous with Taiwan and is an important symbol of Taiwanese identity both domestically and internationally. [35] Bubble tea is used to represent Taiwan in the context of the Milk Tea Alliance. [36] [35] 50 Lan is a bubble tea chain founded in Tainan. [37]
In Taiwan, it is more common for people to refer to bubble tea as pearl milk tea (zhēn zhū nǎi chá, 珍珠奶茶) because originally, small tapioca pearls with a 2.1 mm (1 ⁄ 12 in) diameter were used. It was only when one tea shop owner—in an attempt to make his tea stand out—decided to use larger tapioca balls and chose a more ...
Ever since the first wave of boba tea shops hit the U.S. in the 1990s, the popularity of the Taiwanese drink with floating tapioca balls sipped through oversized straws has been bursting.
50 Lan (traditional Chinese: 50嵐; simplified Chinese: 50岚) is a Taiwanese bubble tea chain. In 1994, Ma Shao-wei, the founder, and his sister Ma Ya-fang, started a juice and tea street stall next to their mother's fried chicken stall in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan.
Invented in the tea houses of Taiwan in the ’80s, bubble tea has had a comparatively short history when you consider the centuries of tea drinking in Asia. You’ll find it under a few names ...
Xing Fu Tang (Chinese: 幸福堂; pinyin: Xìngfú táng; transl. realm of happiness) is a Taiwanese multinational chain of bubble tea restaurants. Founded by Edison Chen in Taipei in 2018, the franchise has expanded to over 150 locations in over 18 countries as of 2023.
Bubble tea, or boba tea, is a tea drink with tapioca pearls that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s.Since its inception, boba has swept across the world, with hundreds of brands and thousands of shops.