Rationale of the Study Coffee and Milktea both have legendary past. Milk Tea, originally known as Bubble Tea or Pearl Milktea, came into existence in Taiwan, during the 1980's. From a tea shop called Chun Shui Tang in Taichung, Taiwan. Unlikely the fully loaded pearl milk tea today, the oldest form of bubble tea was made by mixing cold black tea with fructose syrup using a shaker. The product was named bubble tea after seeing the layer of foam that ended up on the top of the tea. Most bubble teas come with small chewy tapioca balls, commonly called "pearls" or "boba". The history of coffee began much later, dates back to the 1400s, when a shepherd noticed his sheep began to act unusually frisky after eating berries from an unfamiliar plant. Curiously, the shepherd picked one and popped it into his mouth. He was hyperactive as a kid. He told of his discovery of this stimulator to scholars, and someone makes a “tea” out of it. The story says that then one day someone dropped a bean into the fire by accident, and thus coffee was born. Today, different kinds of bubble tea are sold in different countries. For example, in Taiwan, there is a drink called “Rainbow Pearl Milk Tea” where the pearls are colored with natural food ingredients. In Vancouver, there are also many different combinations that you can make by adding different ingredients such as grass jelly, nata de coco and bite- size vermicelli into different drinks such as red bean milk, green milk tea, and taro milk tea just to name a few. These drinks became popular in most parts of East and Southeast Asia during the 1990s. 1|Page
In the Philippines, coffees and milk tea shops became prevalent, not just in upper and middle class professionals, but also to high school/college students looking for an ambiance, a cool place to hang around while enjoying a sip of their favourite coffee or milk tea products. Ceboom, a portmanteau of "Cebu" and "boom," refers to the rapid economic development
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