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>>12947510
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the drink was invented in 1990s taiwan

the initial craze started spreading here in asia around the early 2000s, stores selling cheap low quality bubble tea at $1 per cup..artificial flavours and powdered instant tea, there were stores everywhere, targeted at kids and teens/young adults

then the bubble burst and it died down a bit

afterwards around 2010s it came back as a higher quality/mid market product, quality tea and proper chewy pearls, drinks at $3-$7 each with lots of gimmicks like matcha foamed milk tea, pudding in tea, azuki beans in tea, flavoured pearls etc..

the trend then migrated to america, canada, australia etc where there are lots of asian diaspora and there you have it

the latest craze in the boba tea world is brown sugar syrup + milk