Bubble tea park opens in Japan

[takenoko]

https://kotaku.com/tokyo-opens-an-amuse ... 1837264474

This is a real Brian Ashcraft post, but following the bubble tea boom, an amusement area was opened. So like, it's ball themed, I guess?

Did something happen to make bubble tea popular in Japan again? I've heard from a native that they've had bubble tea for years, so what changed?

[Catastrophe]

It became more popular outside of Japan as well? Would that cause a resurgence?

[Lunagel]

Just like recently within the past year bubble tea has really exploded in popularity. It's partially the Instagram culture that's taken off and partially because a lot of new food culture is coming from Taiwanese/Korean street food. Bubble tea has been booming in Taiwan (apparently? can anyone collaborate, cause I only know from media coverage) and also recently become a popular festival food (again, Instagram).

I saw a place about a month ago that was a bit out of the way but still had at least 10 people in line on the weekend.

[takenoko]

I thought bubble tea was created in Taiwan. I felt like I first started noticing bubble tea getting real big here like 3-4 years ago.