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 The Ages Of                        ver the past five years, since the   Haze  gave  the  following  conclusions  in  their




 Tea Drinks               O         rapid development of new tea drinks   research page: The thickness and the material of
                                                                 the milk tea cups have no direct impact on the
                                    in China, people have been enjoying
                                                                 taste of the milk tea. What has a great impact is
                                    not only the brand logos and various
                                                                 the temperature of the milk tea when you drink
                          tastes of milk tea drinks, but also the milk tea
 Bottle                   bottles of various heights and styles. From the   it. The temperature affects the taste of the drink.
                          traditional plastic bottles and the paper cups to
                                                                 Your response to the first taste determines wheth-
                                                                 er you think the drink is good or not.
                          the shakers, from PET (polyethylene terephthal-
                          ate) transparent bottles to the current trendy
                          glass bottles, the packaging of milk tea has be-  Chain Brands  Create  Trends by
                          come an evolutionary history, constantly chang-  Default
                          ing and developing.
                              Before we talk about the evolving changes   The container affects the taste of milk tea,
                          in containers of new tea drinks, we might as well   and the same idea applies to the thriving new tea
                          take a look at Hong Kong, where most people   drinks. As a product evolved from Taiwan-style
                          have a habit of drinking milk tea. Different from   milk tea, the new tea drinks bear the quality of
                          the Taiwan-style milk tea and new tea drinks,   convenience by default regarding the drinking
                          Hong Kong-style milk tea originates from the   experience. So even if soft plastic bottles are no
                          British practice of afternoon tea and values the   longer the best options in the decade after infu-
                          sense of ‘break time’. Therefore, it is mainly for   sion tea drinks lost their popularity, the contain-
                          eat-in. The take-out containers are usually trans-  ers  of  the  new  tea  drinks  still  tend  to  go  with
                          parent plastic bottles. According to the Facebook   lightweight PET bottles.
                          page Milktealogy, there are 11 common contain-  Nayuki,  one of the new tea  brands which
                          ers. The most impressive ones among those are   have taken the lead in marketing milk tea, has a
                          thick double  red  line tile cup and  glass with   wide-spread anecdote of founder Xin Peng having
                          grooved patterns, which are the classic containers   invested 180,000 yuan to make their original de-
                          of hot and cold milk tea.              signs of tea bottles: With the girls being able to
                              Also, the founders of Milktealogy, Lang and   hold the bottle one-handed as the design goal,

































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