Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, or boba; Chinese: 珍珠奶茶; pinyin: zhēn zhū nǎi chá, 波霸奶茶; bō bà nǎi chá; or 泡泡茶; pào pào chá in Singapore) is a tea-based drink that originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s.
Its founder, Liu Han-Chieh, began serving Chinese tea cold after she observed coffee was served cold in Japan while on a visit in the 1980s.
The hospital warns that this oil has been strongly correlated with an increased risk of heart disease and stroke. ==See also== Cuisine of Taiwan Chinese tea culture Hong Kong tea culture List of Taiwanese inventions and discoveries Taiwanese tea culture Milk Tea Alliance ==References== ==External links== Asian Boss interview with bubble tea pioneer Lin Hsiu Hui Taiwanese inventions Taiwanese tea Tea culture Food and drink introduced in the 1980s Milk tea Taiwanese drinks
The Hanlin Tea Room of Tainan claims that bubble tea was invented in 1986 when teahouse owner Tu Tsong-he was inspired by white tapioca balls he saw in the local market of Ah-bó-liâu (鴨母寮, or Yamuliao in Mandarin) .
The company’s product development manager, Lin Hsiu Hui, says she created the first bubble tea in 1988 when she poured tapioca balls into her tea during a staff meeting and encouraged others to drink it.
It ultimately becoming the franchise's top-selling product. == Popularity == === Asia === In the 1990s, bubble tea spread all over East and Southeast Asia with its ever-growing popularity.
While milk tea has long become integrated into people’s daily life, the expansion of Taiwanese bubble tea chains, including Tiger Sugar, Youiccha, and Xing Fu Tang, into Hong Kong created a new wave for “boba tea”. ==== Mainland China ==== Since the idea of adding tapioca pearls into milk tea was introduced into China in the 1990s, bubble tea has increased its popularity.
It is also a favored topic among friends and on social media. ==== Japan ==== Bubble tea first entered Japan by the late 1990s, but it failed to leave a lasting impression on the public markets.
In 2018, the interest in bubble tea rose again at an unprecedented speed in Singapore, as new brands like The Alley and Tiger Sugar entered the market; social media also played an important role in driving this renaissance of bubble tea. ===United States=== In the 1990s, Taiwanese immigrants opened the first bubble tea shop, Fantasia Coffee & Tea, in Cupertino, California.
Since then, chains like Tapioca Express, Quickly, Lollicup and Q-Cup emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, bringing the Taiwanese bubble tea trend to the US.
The drink was sold in Singapore as early as 1992 and became phenomenally popular among young people in 2001.
Since then, chains like Tapioca Express, Quickly, Lollicup and Q-Cup emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, bringing the Taiwanese bubble tea trend to the US.
The drink was sold in Singapore as early as 1992 and became phenomenally popular among young people in 2001.
As a result, most of the bubble tea shops were closed and bubble tea lost its popularity by 2003.
When Taiwanese chains like Koi and Gong Cha came to Singapore in 2007 and 2009, the beverage experienced only short resurgences in popularity.
When Taiwanese chains like Koi and Gong Cha came to Singapore in 2007 and 2009, the beverage experienced only short resurgences in popularity.
It was not until the 2010s when the bubble tea trend finally swept Japan.
and Canada. ==Health concerns== In May 2011, a food scandal occurred in Taiwan when DEHP (a chemical plasticizer) was found as a stabilizer in drinks and juice syrups.
In June the Health Minister of Malaysia, Liow Tiong Lai, instructed companies selling "Strawberry Syrup", a material used in some bubble teas, to stop selling them after chemical tests showed they were tainted with DEHP. In August 2012, scientists from the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) in Germany analyzed bubble tea samples in a research project to look for allergenic substances.
This phenomenon was referred to as “boba life” by Chinese-American brothers Andrew and David Fung in their music video, “Bobalife,” released in 2013.
The products were also found to contain no excessive levels of heavy-metal contaminants or other health-threatening agents. In May 2013, Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration issued an alert on the detection of maleic acid, an unapproved food additive, in some food products, including tapioca pearls.
According to data from QianZhen Industry Research Institute, the value of the tea-related beverage market in China has reached 53.7 billion yuan (about $7.63 billion) in 2018.
The word is a short for drinking tapioca tea in Japanese, and it won first place in a survey of “Japanese slang for middle school girls” in 2018.
In 2018, the interest in bubble tea rose again at an unprecedented speed in Singapore, as new brands like The Alley and Tiger Sugar entered the market; social media also played an important role in driving this renaissance of bubble tea. ===United States=== In the 1990s, Taiwanese immigrants opened the first bubble tea shop, Fantasia Coffee & Tea, in Cupertino, California.
The market size of bubble tea was valued at $2.4 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $4.3 billion by the end of 2027.
People were so obsessed with tapioca tea that they even built a tapioca theme park in Harajuku, Tokyo in 2019. ==== Singapore ==== Known locally in Chinese as 泡泡茶 (Pinyin: pào pào chá), bubble tea is loved by many in Singapore.
The Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore conducted its own tests and found additional brands of tapioca pearls and some other starch-based products sold in Singapore were similarly affected. In May 2019, around 100 undigested tapioca pearls were found in the abdomen of a 14-year-old girl in Zhejiang province, China after she complained of constipation.
However, physicians believe that consuming tapioca pearls should not be a concern, as it is made from starch-based cassava root which is easily digested by the body, similarly to dietary fiber. In July 2019, Singapore's Mount Alvernia Hospital warned against the sugar content of bubble tea since the drink had become extremely popular in Singapore in recent years.
In 2020, the date April 30 was officially declared as National Bubble Tea Day in Taiwan.
West coast, coupled with the obstruction of the Suez Canal in March 2021, caused a shortage of tapioca pearls for bubble tea shops in the U.S.
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