The origin of milk tea: a drink that attracts young people is controversial

Once you have a better understanding of this 'best of earth' drink, you will feel another taste .

According to CNN news agency, there are many different theories about different origins of milk tea. This drink may have been born in a street store or a tea shop. Currently, there are a lot of milk tea trading companies so the way they introduce the inventor of this drink is also different.

However, for many Taiwanese people, Liu Han Zhao is still considered the ancestor of milk tea. In the early 1980s, Liu thought of serving a Chinese-style cold tea with milk, fruit and jelly after visiting Japan, where chilled coffee was popular. This idea prompted him to create Chun Shui Tang , a very popular tea chain store in Taiwan.

By 1988, Sha Tu Hue , a manager specializing in product development of Chun Shui Tang, made a breakthrough for milk tea. Ms. Lin brought "fen yuan" , a traditional Taiwanese filter cake, to the company's meeting. During the excitement, she removed the filtered cake made from sweet sweet potatoes into a cup of milk tea and drank it.

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Ms. Lin Xiu Hui, the creator of pearl milk tea.

"Everyone at the meeting felt like it and this drink quickly outsold all other teas over the next few months. Even 20 years later, it still accounted for 80 to 90%. Our revenue and become the pride of Taiwanese people , " said Ms. Lam.

Milk tea created by Ms. Lin is known as pearl milk tea. In the United States, the name of this drink is bubble tea because it will create a thin foam on the cup. A special point when using pearl milk tea is that you will be provided with large straws to suck pearls to chew mouth.

There are two main types of pearl commonly used: black pearl and white pearl . Black pearls can be made from sweet potatoes, cassava and black sugar. Meanwhile, white pearl is made from powdered vegetables.

Today, we can find a pearl milk tea shop in any street of Taiwan. This drink is also popular and popular in many Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, China and Vietnam. Easy to drink, beautiful and nutritious are the factors that make "good" milk tea of ​​young people, especially girls.

Milk tea is currently being traded by many different companies and shops. Liu Han Zhao can absolutely license milk tea and force them to pay if they want to continue trading this drink. However, Liu decided not to do so.

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Pearl milk tea with many different tastes.

"Our main goal is to promote tea as well as Taiwan's tea culture and develop new products," said Ms. Lin Xiu Hui. "If we focus on quality and experience when drinking tea, we believe that customers will appreciate and continue to drink."

"Many overseas Taiwanese chose our teahouse as their first stop when they returned to their homeland and their final destination before going to the airport. They often asked us to open tea shops overseas but we all refuse " , Ms. Lam added, " We currently have 30 stores in Taiwan but I always want to bring the highest quality staff. It takes 6 months for an employee to learn. How to make 80 different types of milk tea and become a true tea lover and tea culture ".