Food trends highlight pearl-shaped items like caviar, finger limes, and boba, adding playful textures and flavours to culinary experiences worldwide.

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Founded in Taiwan and now based in London, Gong Cha is one of the world’s largest bubble tea brands. The popular cold drink, which combines milk with chewy tapioca balls and comes in a variety ...

Bubble tea brand Gong Cha has announced major UK expansion plans after agreeing to a new deal to open hundreds of stores and create thousands of jobs. A franchise agreement with newly-created ...

The new deal is expected to create nearly 2,000 jobs in the UK and forms part of plans to open 10,000 stores around the world by 2032. Published 12 hours ago Bubble tea brand Gong Cha has announced ...

Gong Cha moved its global head office to London in 2019. Bubble tea chain Gong Cha has revealed plans to open more than 225 stores across the UK and create nearly 2,000 jobs after signing a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo shows a finger lime being squeezed to release the juice pearls in New York on Nov. 15, 2021 ...

coffee and bubble tea drinks. “Even on social media like TikTok and others, there is a joke that any empty shophouse would soon turn into a Mixue store,” Rahma Yuliana said, referring to a ...

The company, whose brand name Mixue Bingcheng means “Honey Snow Ice City”, in Chinese, is capitalising on the region-wide sweet tooth with affordable offerings of ice cream, coffee and bubble tea ...