Legend has it that Chun Shui Tang teahouse employee Lin Hsui Hui in Taiwan whimsically decided to pour fen yuan, a sweetened tapioca dessert, into her Assam iced tea. And it was at that moment that the drink we have all come to love was invented. The tapioca balls are made by extracting starch from cassava root, a long tuberous plant native to Brazil. Cassava has been used by indigenous people as an essential source of carbohydrates since as early as the 1400s. The most traditional flavor of bubble tea is milk tea, which is comprised of tea, milk, and sugar. But bubble tea has expanded to include a multitude of flavors, such as honeydew, mango, avocado, strawberry, chocolate, sesame, and lavender.
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