Sally and her Bubble Tea

Bubble Tea, also known as pearl milk tea or boba, is a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Tainan and Taichung in the 1980s. Bubble Tea has been in Newcastle for nearly 8 years ,several branches there are popular with locals and international students.

This is an inspiring story about Sally, one of Chinese proprietors of Bubble Tea in Newcastle.

The preferences of the public change day by day,and Sally has noticed this. ‘The bubble tea need some changes as well,from the old style to a new style.’

Although it was so hard at the beginning, Sally soon adjusted her mind and did some research of Bubble Tea Shops in China.She found that a number of people took a picture and post on Instagram after buying a cup of bubble tea.She concluded,‘For bubble tea shops, majority of the customers are young people, so besides the taste ,it is important to shape a bubble tea shop ,whether the appearance, or interior decoration, to meet the demands of young people.

Talking about ‘Quit Sugar’,a popular lifestyle among young people recently, Sally agreed and mentioned different sugar levels of bubble tea. ‘You can choose the total sugar ,half sugar or even no sugar. A lot of customers came to my shop for a cup of bubble tea with no sugar.It’s quite healthy, just tea and milk.Some people drink it everyday.’

In recent years, bubble tea has developed rapidly in China，which leads the development of bubble tea market all over the world. According to the data of, Meituan , by the end of the third quarter of 2018, the number of existing tea and beverage stores in China had reached 410000, an increase of 74% in a year, with a very rapid expansion. The new growth mainly comes from the replacement of conventional drinks by consumers and the demand of consumers for “healthy tea”. Chinese Bubble tea market is moving towards a new age.

Most of bubble teas contain an iced tea base and milk, with chewy tapioca pearls and sugar. Although this is a standard recipe, Chinese bubble milk tea shops and chains now have a growing selection of fruit flavored bubble tea or chocolate flavored bubble tea beside their original flavored bubble tea, fruit jelly, grass jelly, agar jelly, alovera jelly, sago and puddings are often added. There are many varieties of the drink with a wide range of flavors.

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