A sweet Taiwanese drink nicknamed in honor of a Hong Kong celebrity, bubble tea – also known as boba tea – has become an unstoppable worldwide trend since it was invented in the 1980s.

The Origins of Bubble Tea. Bubble tea started in Taiwan during the 1980s when Liu Han-Chieh added sweetened tapioca pearls to ...

A widely enjoyed chilled beverage, Bubble Tea is one of the popular drinks that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s and is being loved across the world ever since! It’s known by several names ...

A behind-the-scenes look at America's boba boom 04:53. The Taiwanese drink known as bubble tea is gaining popularity in the U.S., with more coffee and juice shops adding the iconic tapioca balls ...

Bubble tea has certainly hit a sweet spot with its many fans but it has left some investors with a bitter taste. Stock market debuts of two China-based chains have already flopped.

Sweet, creamy tea swimming with chewy tapioca boba pearls — otherwise known as bubble tea — was originally invented in Taiwan in the 1980s, but it’s never been more popular ...

Since then, he's switched from buying from other popular bubble tea brands in Singapore, such as LiHo Tea or Koi Thé, saying he'd rather pay SG$3 at Mixue than SG$6 for a similar drink elsewhere.

There's fresh competition brewing in China's bubble tea market, characterised by ultra-cheap products that are striking a chord with China's increasingly frugal young consumers.