Boba origin how to#

We want customers to be able to drink our drinks for a long time, up to one hour. Sometimes you’ll make terrible combinations! You can’t put milk with lemon because it will curdle and drinks with blueberry need to be drank quickly, otherwise they turn a terrible color. “We experiment to try and find the best recipe. (Image source: Taiwan Scene) How They Go About Coming up with Different Flavors We called it tapioca tea.” ( Read more: Bubble milk tea and beyond in Taiwan, part two) Tapioca balls were added in bubble tea in a later stage. One of our employees, our vice president, who is still working here, put the tapioca balls into milk tea. So, why not do the same thing in the modern era? We have more ingredients, so he (Mr Liu) encouraged his employees to experiment. We can see from old documents that people would add different ingredients to tea. And we wondered what else can we do to this ? Over the course of tea history, people in the past would add fruits. There’s six kinds of tea in Taiwan: black, green, white, all kinds of flower tea – all kinds of tea can be made into iced tea. “After iced black tea was invented, people realized they could drink tea cold, not only hot, so we tried to convert all kinds of hot tea into iced tea. At first, bubble tea was just a cup of ice tea with ‘bubbles’ on the top. There would be a layer of thick ‘bubbles’ on the top. So, originally, bubble tea referred to iced black tea. He’d use hot black tea and add sugar and ice and shake them together. It was the first iced black tea to be invented.

Boba origin how to#

So, when he came back to Taiwan, he’d experienced how to turn hot tea into iced tea using a shaker, which would quickly turn it into iced tea. One time he went to Osaka in Japan and saw how hot coffee was turned into iced coffee and the thought: ‘Why not tea?’ They are effectively the same beverage.

At the time, my father was writing a book about tea. In the summer, people don’t like to drink hot tea. We didn’t have tea leaves but we still needed to keep the business running. Originally, we were selling oolong tea and there are two seasons for oolong tea: the spring and the winter. “The first iced black tea was invented in 1983 when we originally started our business. Taiwan Scene met the shop’s Associate General Manager Angela Liu at the chain’s Taipei location to talk all things bubble tea. Now a shop world renowned for its quality handmade drinks, Chun Shui Tang has locations in Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong. The famous beverage’s origins date back to the 1980s and a Taichung tea shop by the name of Chun Shui Tang (春水堂). But, did you know that it was invented here in Taiwan? ( Read more: Bubble milk tea and beyond in Taiwan, part one) DIY a cup of bubble milk tea at Chun Shui Tang (Image source: Taiwan Scene) Bubble tea, bōbà nǎichá (波霸奶茶), or zhēnzhū nǎichá (珍珠奶茶) – no matter what you call it, this chewy, milky glass of goodness is without doubt Taiwan’s most popular drink.