Bubble tea: How did it start?
CNN — There’s much speculation on the Internet and elsewhere about the origin of bubble tea. As a lifelong fan of bubble tea, I was thrilled to meet this woman when I visited her place of work, and the source of all bubbles teas it would seem, at Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung, Taiwan. “Everyone at the meeting loved the drink and it quickly outsold all of our other iced teas within a couple of months – even after 20 years on the menu, bubble tea makes up 80-90% of our sales and Taiwanese are proud of this home-grown drink,” says Lin. “Our main goals at Chun Shui Tang are to promote Taiwanese tea and tea culture and to develop innovative products,” she says. Even babies like our milk teas.” If babies are digging their teas, it’s a pretty safe assumption that the future success of Chun Shui Tang is guaranteed at least for another generation or two.
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