A girl who loves to drink milk tea has recently discovered that there are more and more ingredients in milk tea.
Is this milk tea? This is rice pudding.
I can’t use a straw at all, please give me a spoon.
opened the takeout app and wanted to order a cup of milk tea. The toppings in the topping area opened the door to a new world for me.
Should I order milk tea or porridge?
Even Li Xueqin discovered this change in the milk tea world:
When did it start? Each milk tea becomes more "pretty" than the last, and each one becomes more "eighty-eight treasure porridge" than the last? How long is the history of adding milk tea ingredients? Baomei consulted ancient books and surfed the Internet, and finally sorted out this set of milk tea toppings for everyone.
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If you don’t want to read the lecture, you can scroll directly to the end of the article and give you a practical lesson worth eighty-eight cups of milk tea.
The earliest soul mate of milk tea is "pearl" - not tasaki, not the Dadong pearl on the ears of the ladies in the Forbidden City, but the pearl in milk tea.
The specific time when the first cup of milk tea appeared is now impossible to verify, but the first cup of pearl milk tea can be.
The first theory is that the inventor of pearls is Mr. Liu Hanjie of Chun Shui Tang in Taichung City. In 1983, a store clerk had a sudden idea to add his favorite local snack " rice balls " to milk tea. It was not accepted at first. Later, he was interviewed by a Japanese TV program and gradually became popular. Liu Hanjie took the meaning of "big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate" and renamed Taiwan's traditional dessert powder balls "pearls".
The second theory is that the inventor of pearls is Mr. Tu Zonghe of Hanlin Teahouse in Tainan City. Mr. saw the white powder balls sold in Yamuliao market, so he tried to add it to milk tea. It was called "Emerald Pearl Green" at first. Later, the tea base was changed from green tea to black tea, and the pearls were also changed to black.
Neither of these two stores has applied for patent rights or trademark rights. Pearl milk tea quickly started a prairie fire like a spark, and soon landed in the mainland from Baodao.
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Even for a long time, "pearl milk tea" has become an alias for "milk tea" because of its popularity. For Shanghai residents, milk tea without pearls is just spicy chicken.
▲The sitcom "老老婆" Aqing Ami's lines when she first appeared are still fresh in my mind.
After Pearl, the second person to become a milk tea companion is coconut .
We are unable to verify the specific age of the coconut fruit. According to the known data, starting in 1995, milk teas such as coconut fruit and jam began to appear. At the same time, fruit tea and herbal tea also gradually emerged. Then in 2000, the emergence of automatic sealing machines also made take-out mainstream - the tradition of shopping for a cup of coconut milk tea as a companion came from this.
It is not difficult to imagine that on the streets in 2000, when children in Shanghai were drinking pearl milk tea, 1,960 kilometers away in the Northeast, primary school students with a cup of coconut milk tea could be called "urban beauties".
The storability of coconut fruit makes it appear more often in instant milk tea - for example, Xiangpiaopili with the slogan "100 million cups sold a year, enough to circle the earth twice" comes with a coconut bag. .
But coconut fruit has never been able to shake the status of pearls until 2012.
In 2012, in Qingdao, a young man who had just finished drinking pearl milk tea went to the hospital for a CT scan. In the image, there were many granular shadows in his stomach. The media began to report aggressively that "bubble milk tea contains plasticizers." The booming pearls have become a big deal in China.
So, is there any plasticizer added to pearls?
The answer is yes.
Just one year before this incident, in 2011, a plasticizer incident occurred in Taiwan.
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In other words, in order to save costs, the upstream black-hearted manufacturer replaced the clouding agent (legal food additive) with the industrial plasticizer (non-edible additive) , so the pearls were detected as plasticized agent.
▲ In 2011, Taiwan's Wyeth Sports Drink apologized for the plasticizer incident
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Due to its great impact on Taiwanese society, this incident is often discussed together with the "melamine incident" in 2008. However, some experts point out that the plastic involved Chemical agents are 20 times more toxic than melamine, and is the most serious food adulteration incident in thirty years.
Did the young man from Qingdao eat pearls containing plasticizer?
Obviously not, the pearls in question were destroyed a year ago.
So why is there such an image in his stomach? A knowledge point should be introduced here, resistant starch .
The starch digestion ability of endogenous enzymes is a continuous process in the small intestine. However, there is a type of starch that is not easily decomposed by enzymes in the small intestine due to various reasons, namely resistant starch.
To put it simply, the man went to take a CT scan just after drinking milk tea, and the pearls were returned! without! remove! change!
However, after this incident, pearls were banned in the milk tea topping category.
Pearls are dangerous, coconuts are too boring, and milk tea is in urgent need of new ingredients.
Tea drinkers have set their sights on a special place. According to "The Distant Ice and Fruit Room", the Ice and Fruit Room was the prototype of Taiwan's tea shop. The small ingredients that can be added to the ice point were widely used in milk tea by tea shops. Grass jelly, ice powder, cold weather, and pudding are unlocked. Purple rice, black rice, red beans , mung beans, and even bean curd have also found a special presence in milk tea.
The first one to try was CoCo, which entered the mainland in 2007. With a cup of "Three Milk Tea Brothers" gained countless fans. This product creatively combines three single ingredients: pearls, pudding, and grass jelly, and binds them into the CP group of the "Three Taoyuan Brothers", becoming the brand's signature product.
Wang Bin, a Hunanese with a passion for entrepreneurship, ran to Chengdu and opened a beverage shop, also called 85 Degree Tea. Because it was sued for infringement by the bread brand 85℃, it was renamed "Shu Yishao Xiancao" in early 2017 - everyone remembers this brand because its slogan is "Half a cup is full of ingredients" .
The crazy era of adding ingredients is not only reflected at the bottom of the cup, but also at the top.
The first attempt at top milk tea was in 2000. At that time, pearl milk tea was in full swing. A young man set up a beverage shop called "White Lover" in Taichung. Unlike other milk tea shops, here they did not sell pearl milk tea, only pearl milk tea. Selling cheese milk tea. In 2009, Happy Lemon tried to introduce this milk tea in mainland China, but the time was not right and it did not become popular.
But when Pearl became a prisoner, the opportunity for milk cover came.
The first thing to become popular was Siyun Naigai Gongcha. However, the founder of HEYTEA, Nie Yunchen, because of poor business, worked hard in the R&D room to adjust the product. Heytea learned from the thinking of milk cap tea and developed a better-tasting "cheese milk cap" topping. In the end, because of cheese tea The series was an instant hit.
Changsha’s Cha Yanyue Se neither follows the model of base milk tea nor adopts the thinking of milk tea on top. It launches cream top tea.
The types of toppings are gradually increasing: milk cap, milk cream, milk froth, cream, cheese, macchiato, gray, ice cream, milk balls, snowballs...
toppings are in After the milk tea industry became popular, it gradually formed a situation where the world was divided between milk tea and base milk tea. Even with the development of new tea drinks, it once overshadowed pearl milk tea.
With new business models and new consumption habits, many drinks are trying to seize the market. At this time, the milk tea industry can be said to be letting a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contending, and a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix.
From the horizontal increase in the types of small ingredients to the vertical increase in the content per cup, it has become increasingly unstoppable.
In 2011, and opened a store in Shanghai. After buying milk tea, you can add unlimited pearls, boba, red beans, and grass jelly for free, and you can even top up a cup - which is very similar to the form of rice pudding.
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Lanxiong Fresh Milk, which is sold with rich taro paste , is indeed "good news for taro paste lovers", but it is also a walking taro paste snack.
Happy Lemon launches "cake milk tea", with the main slogan being "drinkable cake";
KOI's "biscuit milk tea" even has a salted egg yolk flavor;
Auntie Shanghai launches "roasted sweet potato milk tea", listen, sweet potato Appearing in the palm of our hands in another way;
CoCo has just launched "roasted chestnut milk tea" some time ago. Together with caramel, I wonder if it is as delicious as sugar-roasted chestnuts...
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Mixue Bingcheng, who followed the Pinduoduo route, also completed a large cup of "TO DO LIST" filled with small ingredients.
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writes here, the more I write, the more I feel full (fall) , the full girl wants to say to the research and development of various tea brands:
Xiba, I only buy milk tea just to drink milk tea!
A cup is full of ingredients! What are you doing! Just buy the eight-treasure porridge instead of the side ingredients!
I don’t want to take garlic to a milk tea shop to celebrate the Laba Festival!
wake up! I want a cup of milk tea with less ingredients!
It’s too difficult. The full girl presents the “ Food Guide ” for everyone to enjoy:
For milk tea with granular bases such as pearls, red beans, coconuts, highland barley, oats, etc., take pearls as an example:
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Taro puree, grass jelly, pudding, tofu pudding and other sinking bases are also suitable. If you can't insert the straw, just open the lid and put the straw in.
For milk tea with milk cap, cream, ice cream and other toppings, take the milk cap as an example:
▲ Swipe right to see the correct answer
The same applies to Brussels sprouts, half-cooked Oreos, etc. If it doesn't work, just pack the ingredients into small bites Have a sip of milk tea.
There is another artifact that can solve all difficulties and obstacles :
Is it reasonable not to give a spoon when buying milk tea?
References:
[1] Wu Deliang. "From a Cup of Pearl Milk Tea to a Tea Drinking Kingdom", "Strait Tea Ceremony", 2013.03
[2] Xu Zhengkui. "New progress in the research of tapioca starch starts from the "toxicity of pearl milk tea"" . "Health Food Research", 2013(03): 30-31
[3] Hally Chen. "Distant Ice and Fruit Room", 2013.09
[4] A family. "32 Years Up and Down: The History of Chinese Milk Tea Adding Toppings". Sohu News , 2018.08.21
[5] Taiwan Plasticizer Incident in 2011, Public Health Encyclopedia
[6] Qingzhu New Consumption. A Brief History of Milk Tea: The Ups and Downs of Chinese Milk Tea in Thirty Years (1987-2017) | Qingzhu Chronicles
[7 ] CBNData. 2017 National Catering Consumption Big Data Report
[8] Meituan Dianping Catering Academy. Interpretation of new tea drink big data: the number of store closures surged and product prices rose, 2017.9
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