When talking about the history of milk tea exporting to the Middle East, one place cannot be left out, Dragon Mart in Dubai. Dragon Mart is the world's largest Chinese commodity trading center outside mainland China. It currently consists of more than 6,000 shops, catering and entertainment, leisure attractions and 8,200 parking spaces. It sells home appliances, furniture, electronic products, household items, etc. imported from China, and receives more than 40 million customers every year. In Dubai, with the increasing prosperity of Dragon Mart and International City, there are rows of Chinese restaurants, and milk tea shops have also emerged. As more and more Chinese companies set up teams and opened offices in Dubai, a wave of milk tea exporting has emerged. The popularity of Chinese milk tea sweeping the world is also fully demonstrated in Dubai, an international city.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, in major cities in the Middle East, locals can be seen drinking Chinese milk tea, and there are more and more Chinese milk tea shops. In 2012, in Qatar, Imtiaz Dawood, who returned from Canada, introduced the Chinese milk tea making process he learned in America to his homeland and opened the first bubble tea shop in Qatar. In 2022, the tea brand "Xiejiaoting" from Taiwan, China, extended its network to Kuwait, a major oil country in the Middle East, and opened three stores in well-known locations such as Lulu Hayper Market. In the UAE, where the earliest milk tea shops appeared, "pearls" can now be seen in almost all buffets, restaurants and teahouses. "When I'm feeling down, a cup of bubble milk tea always makes me smile. It's really fun to experience the feeling of the pearls bursting in my mouth. I don't get the same feeling from any other beverage." said Joseph Henry, a 20-year-old Sharjah college student.
The people of the Middle East have a fanatical love for sweets. Chinese milk tea in the Middle East has also increased its sweetness to meet market demand. In addition to taste, because most of the Middle East is an Islamic country, more attention should be paid to religious taboos at the food level. Every link in the food supply chain of Middle Eastern restaurants needs to follow hygiene and safety standards, including food procurement, transportation and storage. If halal food is mixed with non-halal food at any stage of the food chain, it will be considered a violation of Islamic law according to the Saudi Arabian Food Law.
The pursuit of sweetness in the Middle East has a long history and is ever-lasting. Now, milk tea from China is bringing new sweetness to the people of the Middle East.
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Post time: Dec-20-2024