In almost shopping centers in main Chinese cities, you will find at least on bubble tea drink store and lots of young girls holding a cup of bubble tea. Far from healthy, the drink contains a lot of caffeine and sugar, especially due to syrup sweetener. Purposes: The Chinese bubble tea market is huge with the expected market size of CNY 4-500 billion, says CITIC Security, China’s largest full-service investment bank. Bubble tea is a drink made from tea (usually black tea), milk, syrup, and a special ingredient that captivates the hearts Chinese people: tapioca pearls.
I remember the very first time I had a strawberry smoothie with chewy “bubbles,” or tapioca pearls and that awesome fat straw (my tiny little kid brain could barely handle the awesomeness of having a straw triple the size of what I got on my Capri Sun pouch. The Top 19 Most Popular Bubble Tea List. An 18-year-old Chinese girl fell into a diabetic coma for five days due to her bubble tea addiction. A Chinese teenager addicted to bubble-tea fell into a five-day coma after failing to rein in her two-a-day habit. Bubble tea is also known as 珍珠奶茶 (Zhen Zhu Nai Cha) directly translates to pearl milk tea, but is also known as boba tea in parts of the world.
Among this large market, there are hundreds of thousands of players in this market. Chinese Bubble tea is one of those things that was a distinct part of my childhood. Nicknamed as ‘Bubble Tea Girl’, the Shanghai teen drank two cups in a day for a month. Bubble tea (Bubble Milk Tea or boba milk tea) is the most popular daily street drink in China especially among young girls. As reported by the local Chinese media, the girl was admitted to Shanghai’s Ruijin Hospital on May 28. The sugar content in the drink cost her health issues, resulting in a five-day coma.