CONVENIENT MILK TEA SHOP IN SHANGHAI
Taro Ikeda
CONVENIENT MILK TEA SHOPS IN SHANGHAI
BY TARO IKEDA
There are many milk tea shops around Shanghai and
people have become obsessed with these beverages.
People have developed an “addiction” to these
delicacies because they come with all kinds of toppings
and flavors. At these shops, we can see how they make
the drinks so it is very appealing to the eye while
watching the workers to make your drink. These shops
are convenient, low-priced, and easy to find all over
the city.
Su-Bin Cho an eighth grade student in Shanghai
Livingston American School (SLAS) said, “I go to Yi
DianDian because they ask a lot of questions to make
the milk tea, for example, how much sugar and how
much ice I want.” She discovered this shop about a year
ago. She also added, “I go buy the drink with my friends
because we always go there when we are outside.”
the foam that ended up on top of the tea. People used
to make the “pearls” with tapioca starch, cassava, and
potato flour. Now that the technology has
improved,“pearls” are readily made and sold in shops.
Nowadays, we can make different type of beverages
by adding grass jelly, nata, and bite-size vermicelli into
different flavors of milk tea such as red bean, green/
black/red teas, juices, flavors such as vanilla and taro.
A junior student in SLAS, Ricalyn Sandoval said, “I always
go to Coco and Yi Dian Dian. I like it because it’s so good,
I’m so obsessed to it.” She goes to the shop almost
every day with her friends and sometimes with her
family. She also added, “I don’t really like the original
milk tea, I always order the green milk tea and mango
milk. For the topping I always add the bubbles.”
Overall, people can have fun during the weekends, after
In Shanghai, there are various brands of milk tea shops school with friends, and with family membersbecause
that sell delicious beverages. These shops include: of these milk tea shops in the Shanghai. Each shop that
Coco, Happy Lemon, Yi Dian Dian, Q-More, Tea Storm, sells these drinks has all different kinds of flavors,
Come Buy and many more. The milk tea with tapioca toppings and ways to make your drink. These drinks in
balls, or “pearls,” was introduced in 1987 in a tea shop the shop are not so expensive so you should go!
in Tai Chung, Taiwan called Chun ShuiTang.The wife
of that shop named the drink“bubble tea” after seeing
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