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What does it mean to add milk tea? What are the ingredients in the three brothers of coco milk tea? The Development History of Pearl Milk Tea

Published: 2026-08-22 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/22, Order a cup of milk tea to eat pudding, pearls and fairy grass. In the past, pudding, pearl and fairy grass were known as the "three bullies of milk tea", which are the standard configuration of milk tea, but today, these three bullies are not so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The original milk tea is best known as "pearl milk tea", while pearl milk tea was first exported from Taiwan.

Order a cup of milk tea to eat pudding, pearls and fairy grass.

In the past, pudding, pearl and fairy grass were known as the "three bullies of milk tea", which are the standard configuration of milk tea, but today, these three bullies are not so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The original milk tea is best known as "pearl milk tea", while pearl milk tea was first exported from Taiwan.

In 1987, a cold drink tea shop in Taiwan called Chunshuitang, which was established in 1983, had a whim: a local snack vermicelli was added to the milk tea, but it tasted unexpectedly good and was loved by consumers, and this milk tea was named Pearl Milk Tea. Since then, Pearl Milk Tea has become Taiwan's largest Internet celebrity milk tea that year.

Chunshui Hall, the birthplace of Taiwan Pearl Milk Tea

In 1997, Pearl Milk Tea entered the mainland market, "Boba Milk Tea takeout car" attracted the attention of young people.

The innovation of adding pearls to tea has also opened up a creative source for milk tea.

In 2012, there were rumors that the pearls in pearl milk tea were made of plastic, and then the pearls were "banned".

In 2007, CoCo can mix pearls, pudding and fairy grass together, which suddenly attracted everyone's attention. Gradually, pearls have become red beans again. During the same period, coconut, pudding and cold weather have also become the main choices for milk tea ingredients.

In 2009, Wu Bochao, the founder of Happy Lemon, introduced "milk tea topping" in the mainland, and Xi Tea launched a series of cheese tea, which set off an upsurge of milk tea in China.

In 2013, the national grade milk tea aunt in Shanghai combined freshly cooked grains with tea to create the first cup of "five grains tea". Oats, highland barley, fungus, Tremella, glutinous rice, black beans, chickpeas and so on also began to be put on the list of milk tea ingredients.

After 2015, milk cover tea and fruit tea are more popular.

In 2018, Xi Tea launched "Black Sugar Pearl fresh Milk" to continue to set off a trend, mashed taro, crystal ball, hemp and other ingredients commonly used in desserts have also become the choice of milk tea ingredients.

Today, the style of painting has changed again.

Unseasoned lemon tea is very popular among young people. According to the eye survey data the day before yesterday, there are more than 1000 lemon tea-related enterprises across the country, of which 440 were added in 2021.

The ingredients added with milk tea were also replaced with rosemary, cinnamon, Tremella fuciformis, Chinese wolfberry, peach gum, turmeric and so on.

In addition, the tea shop Baidao uses a minority fruit to launch bergamot lemon tea; the book also burns immortal grass to combine taro paste with chestnut to launch Earl milk tea of chestnut taro mud, and the aunt in Shanghai upgrades collagen jelly to launch collagen fruit jelly; a Huayan tofu fresh milk tea brand in Chongqing uses tofu to launch tofu fresh milk tea; Lanfangyuan also uses kale to launch a series of green fruit and vegetable milk tea.

Not long ago, the topic "how delicious duck shit fragrant milk tea is" went viral on Weibo. As of October 26, duck shit fragrant treasure tea, a new product of Naixue's tea, has generated 150 million views on Weibo and triggered 34000 topic discussion. Overnight, Nai Xue's duck shit fragrant treasure tea has become popular all over the country.

Such innovative cases abound in the tea industry, leading to speculation that perhaps this will be the development trend of the new tea industry in the future.

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