1. Boba is the big pearls. Bubble milk tea is the ordinary small ones. It seems that if you buy a big cup, it is filled with boba. Personally, I feel that boba is chewy and has an ordinary taste. Not that great.

2. Pearls are small bubbles, and Boba is big bubble. That is to say, pearls are small, and Boba is big bubble.

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Bubble tea, also known as Boba milk tea, or bubble milk for short, is a tea drink popular in Taiwan. After adding powder balls to the milk tea , it becomes pearl milk tea. Because of its special taste, it is quite popular among teenagers.

Pearl milk tea is a type of Taiwan's "bubble black tea" culture. Although it only adds tapioca rice balls to the milk tea, it has become one of Taiwan's most representative drinks and snacks.

Legend

Two shops in Taiwan claim to be the inventors of bubble milk tea. It is said that Mr. Liu Hanjie, who runs a bubble tea shop "Chun Shui Tang" in Taichung City, claimed that he began to experiment with making milk tea in 1983. He also said that a female employee of the shop accidentally made it successfully. The ingredients added at that time were fruits, syrup, candied sweet potatoes, and rice balls. The milk tea he launched was not well received at the beginning, but by chance, after being interviewed by a Japanese TV program, it finally attracted the attention of businessmen.

Another theory is that it was invented by Mr. Tu Zonghe of the Hanlin Teahouse in Tainan City. It is said that he was inspired by the white powder balls he saw at Yamuliao Market around 1987. Therefore, early pearls were white, and later changed to black. However, neither store has applied for patent or trademark rights, making bubble milk tea the most representative people's drink in Taiwan.

In the first half of the 1990s, it was first included in the menus of chain bubble tea shops such as "Xiao Xie". Since bubble black tea shops were popular places for office workers to discuss business and students to gather before coffee shops became popular in Taiwan, Pearl milk tea has become popular among students. Then, bubble milk tea vendors gradually appeared near schools, areas with dense cram schools, and night markets.

In the late 1990s, some operators introduced "automatic sealing machines" to replace traditional cup lids. Many new investors, such as Hangfan Food, Leli Cup, Green Dream Milk Tea, Leisure Station, Dalian, Kuai Keli, etc., have adopted automatic sealing machines to start expanding their take-away beverage store business.

Since then, take-out bubble milk tea shops have become mainstream, and due to the participation of chain stores, businessmen have begun to expand bubble milk tea to the world, becoming one of Taiwan's internationally renowned foods. In order to fight over who invented bubble milk tea, "Chun Shui Tang" and "Hanlin Teahouse" sued each other in the Taiwanese court.

When it comes to bubble milk tea, Taichung City is the birthplace, and Taichung citizens were the first to enjoy its charming taste. In 1987, a teahouse near the Taichung City Hall first launched bubble milk tea. Because of its soft texture and the right amount of milk tea, it tastes great. The original creator is Lin Xiuhui, the current product research and development manager of Chun Shui Tang.

Lin Xiuhui recalled that her parents used to set up stalls in the vegetable market to do business. She would go to the vegetable market to help during holidays since she was in elementary school. The person who impressed her most in the market at that time was a "fengyuan" "Uncle", the thing she looks forward to most every day is to share a bowl of hot, sticky and smooth rice balls with her brother. From then on, when she is craving for food, she will cook a pot of rice balls to satisfy her craving.

In 1984, Lin Xiuhui entered the "Yangxian Tea Shop", the predecessor of Siwei Street and Chun Shui Tang, to work at the bar. She learned how to prepare tea and make drinks, especially milk tea. Later, she was promoted to purchase and went to the traditional market to purchase When she saw "fengyuan", she always bought a pack back to the store. Then she tried to combine the powderyuan with milk tea, and cups of delicious pearl milk tea were born.

In the early days, pearl milk tea was like Lin Xiuhui’s “private tea”, shared only by bosses and colleagues. Because of its great popularity, when Lin Xiuhui was promoted to the store manager of the Siwei store in 1976, she wanted to sell this private tea, and her colleagues So they all brainstormed a name for the tea. Someone suddenly thought that "the pink balls in the milk tea are like pearls", so the beautiful name "Pearl Milk Tea" was born.

Soon, this tea became popular in every bubble tea shop in Taichung City. One month later, all the black tea shops on Siwei Street and Shifu Road were selling bubble milk tea. At one time, pearl milk tea became a specialty drink in Taichung, and people from outside the country were bound to have a cup when they came to Taichung. Three months later, it was even more surprising, and pearl milk tea was available in almost all of Taiwan. Because Taiwanese tea shops expanded overseas chains, they brought this tea with them. Drinking it has traveled to mainland China and Southeast Asia;

It can be drunk in Europe and the Americas. In order to learn the "orthodox" pearl milk tea, Japanese caterers even made a special trip to Taichung City tea shops to learn from it, hoping to prepare a Taiwanese-style tea drink. . To this day, despite the continuous renovation of tea drinks, pearl milk tea still ranks among the top three orders of bubble tea shops, tea stalls and chain stores.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Pearl Milk Tea