A special thick straw for drinking pearl milk tea.
Warmer weather means that demand for cold beverages such as pearl milk tea is starting to increase. However, the production of pearl milk tea is being affected by a recent shortage in the supply of tapioca starch balls (or boba), an ingredient used to make such cold beverages.
Tapioca starch ball supplier Levy International (Leadway International) senior sales manager Tommy Huang (Tommy Huang) said that consumers can feel the supply of pearl milk tea can not keep up with the problem as early as next week.
Pearl milk tea originated in Taiwan, landed in the United States less than 20 years ago, has now become one of the popular drinks people like. According to a statistic from 2020, there are already more than 10,000 milk tea stores in the U.S., and that number is on the rise.
However, the vast majority of pearl balls in the U.S. come from overseas. Due to an accident in the Suez Canal in March this year that blocked the shipping lanes for days, there were long lines of cargo ships waiting to enter the U.S. West Coast ports to unload, causing delays in the delivery of starch balls.
According to forecasts, the shortage of starch balls may continue for a long time.
The shortage of milk tea ingredients in Canada began to appear two weeks ago, and the shortage may take several months to end.
The supply and demand situation determines the price, which means that consumers will have to pay a higher price than they would otherwise have to for a cup of pearl milk tea in the hot summer months.
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