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The og founder of boba, which consists of tea, milk, sweetener, and boba.
The original bubble milk tea was invented in Taiwan during the 1980s. Before the drink was trending, several tea houses had claimed to have independently invented bubble milk tea. The Taiwanese court eventually decided that it is a shared cultural drink, which made it quickly gain popularity and expand this local drink into a massive global trend.
The tea base can be black tea, green tea, or oolong tea
The milk can be plain milk, oat milk, or any other milk alternative
The pearls are chewy balls made of sweet potato, starch, and brown sugar mixed
It became super trendy in Japan in 2019
Bubble tea from Taiwan first got introduced to Japan in the late 1990s but remained very niche. Its popularity boomed in the late 2010s driven by youth culture
The tea base is Japanese teas like roasted green tea or green tea
The milk can be either Hokkaido milk, oat or soy milk, or cheese foam
The pearls can be either brown sugar pearls, black pearls, or tapioca
Thailand combined the Taiwanese boba with its own street food iced tea
It was practically similar to Japan, where the milk tea was simply integrated with the nation's traditional tea
The milk can be a combo of sweetened milk layered with evaporated milk or Japanese milk
The pearls can be mochi pearls, soft brown sugar boba, or crystal pearls.
The tea base could be just simple black tea, but stores would sometimes add additives like warm spices and dry tea leaves for aesthetic purposes.