Taiwan and the world:
So it turns out Boba Milk Tea, Taiwan’s pride and joy, is named after a woman with big titties.
A milk tea vendor in Tainan invented a larger tapioca pearl, and to stand out in the market, named it after a Hong Kong actress famous for large breasts.
In the late 1980s, Hong Kong actress Amy Yip 葉子楣 became famous as a pop-culture sex symbol known for her voluptuous figure.
Her popular nickname in Chinese was bōbà (波霸), which translates to a slang term for a woman with large breasts.
Over time, the name stuck and became widely used—especially in overseas markets—to describe both the large pearls and the bubble tea drink itself.
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