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Lin Hsiu Hui was a product development manager at Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung, Taiwan. The founder, Liu Han-Chieh, first started serving Chinese tea cold in the early 1980s after visiting Japan where he saw coffee served cold. Lin Hsiu Hui, ever since she was a little girl, loved tapioca pearls in a sweetened tapioca pudding. One day Lin Hsiu Hui poured tapioca pearls into the cold drink, and ended up enjoying it. Lin states,"Everyone at the meeting loved the drink and it quickly outsold all of our other iced teas within a couple of months -- even after 20 years on the menu, bubble tea makes up 80-90% of our sales and Taiwanese are proud of this home-grown drink." However, now a neighboring Taiwanese tea shop refutes that claim. Liu Han-chieh, the founder of Chun Shui Tang, said that he came up with the sugary drink. Liu said that he was the first one in the area to have tea mixed with ice. And that it was his product manager Lin Hsiu-hui who added the tapioca balls in 1987. Furthermore, he claimed that the drink is called “bubble tea” because of the layer of foam on top from the drink being shaken and not because of the pearls. now bubble tea has a variety of different flavors, including milk tea,smoothies, iced tea, and hot teas. It is quickly becoming one of the most popular drinks today! Now that we know how bubble tea got it’s start, let’s see where it is today. Many franchises that originated in Taiwan have expanded to other countries and are making history of their own! Lin Hsiu Hui has been on a variety of different shows, including Asian Boss. Their are also many interviews that include the debate over who actually came up with "bubble tea".