It is said that the Chinese began to drink tea during the Shennong era, and tea culture gradually sprouted as early as 4,000 years ago. Today, new milk teas are even more loved and sought after by young people. Whether it is a high-end series of Hey Tea, a regionally limited tea with a pleasant color, or the down-to-earth Mixue Bingcheng that is available on the streets, they all have it. A group of loyal fans of my own.
In addition to the frequently searched topic "The first cup of milk tea in autumn", even during this year's European Cup, milk tea takeout orders in the early morning tripled. Therefore, netizens ridiculed that milk tea replaced beer as the first companion for watching football. Won the hearts of many great men.
To trace the origin of milk tea’s popularity, we have to go to Taiwan and start with a cup of pearl milk tea.
01 The origin of pearl milk tea has different opinions·Version 1
In the early 1980s, a bartender named Huang ran a coffee and tea shop in Wufeng. Because his family was a tea farmer, he planted his own tea. After brewing the high mountain tea and black tea into tea soup, add sugar water and creamer powder, and then mix it with a shaker to create a fragrant and delicious bubble black tea.
Because there was a shaved ice shop next door to the coffee and tea shop at the time, one day the bartender Huang had a whim, and based on the richness of shaved ice ingredients, he added the powdered balls to the prepared foam black tea, and then drank milk tea with a long bar teaspoon. Eat rice balls. This unexpected attempt made him discover that adding powdered rice balls to milk tea has a particularly unique flavor and extremely rich taste, and thus pearl milk tea was born.
02 The origin of pearl milk tea has various opinions · Version 2
In 1983, a Taiwanese named Liu Hanjie drank iced coffee for the first time in Osaka, Japan. After extracting the coffee, he mixed ice cubes and poured it into a shaker cup. The production method of quickly shaking out the foam made it famous. Liu Hanjie was greatly shocked.
Liu Hanjie believes: "No one drinks iced black tea, but it is a beverage. Why can coffee be refrigerated but not tea? Even tea has a history ten times longer than coffee. As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a way of drinking tea with ice and honey. "With this idea in mind, Liu Hanjie returned to Taiwan and sold iced bubble black tea in his Yangxian Tea Shop, the predecessor of today's famous milk tea shop "Chun Shui Tang" in Taiwan. It was well received as soon as it was launched.
Two years after the launch of iced bubble black tea, a milk tea shop employee suddenly had the idea of mixing the traditional Taiwanese dessert powder balls into iced milk tea. Unexpectedly, the taste was unexpectedly good. After Liu Hanjie learned about this, he renamed the powder balls. "Pearl" means "big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate". At this point, the world's first cup of pearl milk tea was born.
Chunshuitang store
03The origin of pearl milk tea has different opinions·Version 3
It is said that there is a Hanlin Teahouse in Tainan City. Its owner Tu Zonghe saw white powder balls in Yamuliao market in 1987 and mixed them with ordinary milk tea. The new drink was made into a new drink. Because the white powder balls were crystal clear and looked like pearls, it was named pearl milk tea. Later, powdered balls with brown sugar appeared, and then there was the black pearl milk tea that everyone often eats today.
04Started with pearl milk tea, the "milk tea trend" spread around the world
After bubble black tea became popular in Taiwan in the 1980s, people generally operated it in two forms: one can be seen in night markets, arcades, and roadside "Bubble black tea cart", and the second is "bubble black tea shop" and "bubble black tea house" operated by fixed stores.
Whether they are office workers talking about business or cash-strapped students, everyone likes to gather at the bubble tea house. In addition to milk tea, there are also edamame, braised dried beans, chicken feet, kelp, carrot cake, sweet and soybeans. Snacks such as spicy and rice blood cakes, and even the best combination of pearl milk tea + thick slices of toast.
Bubble Black Tea Shop
In the late 1990s, due to the introduction of "automatic sealing machines" that replaced the traditional cup lids of breast milk, chain milk tea shops gradually became the mainstream, and Taiwanese people on the streets began to hold a cup of milk tea. According to relevant data, in Taiwan, each person drinks 44 cups of milk every year, and Taiwan as a whole can drink 1.02 billion cups a year.
In the closing ceremony of the "Summer Deaflympics" held in Taipei in 2009, treasure milk became the "designated specialty tea drink". It is precisely because of this love that it has taken more than 30 years for bubble milk tea to spread from Taiwan to more than 60 countries around the world.
Milk tea shops opened abroad
Pearl milk tea’s conquest of the world is not achieved overnight, but slowly and steadily, just like every piece of meat on your body is eaten one bite at a time. But why do you care so much? We have spent decades developing milk tea to make it more and more delicious. Let’s just cheer!
