“Isn’t it?”

“I made this at home this morning.”

“You made this?”

“Yes, you should try it.”

It was a product that was made for testing. It was bubble tea made with Hadong green tea and ranch milk.

Im Si-baek picked up a glass of bubble tea. I looked over the recipe as if curiously.

“How do you eat this?”

“You can drink it with a straw.”

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Noh Hae-mi handed a straw and said.

“Your straw is too big.”

The temporary bag had a straw inserted into the sealed lid.

It sucked in one bite.

Tapioca spread on the floor went into his mouth.

“The sweet and sour ones have a unique taste.”

After a while, his expression deteriorated.

He pursed his lips and spit something out of his hand.

“But what is this? There is a foreign object in the milk tea.”

“It’s called Tapioca Pearl.”

“Taffy…? What is it?”

“In our way, it’s like a rice cake.”

“It tastes very bad!”

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Noh Hae-mi was struggling to hold back her laughter.

“We are trying to develop Taiwanese milk tea our way.”

“It was well thought out. This tastes very bad. In particular, it is difficult to eat tapinga or something.”

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No Hae-mi let out a smirk she had been holding back.

Laughter was contagious to me too.

The temporary bag was also muffled.

We planned to replace Taiwanese bubble tea with ours.

It starts with tapioca.

Chewy Sweet Potato Pearls

We had a tasting session before making a new product.

All the office colleagues gathered at the ranch. Everyone had high expectations for the new product. They decided to get together and share their opinions.

The bubble tea was made by myself and Haemi Noh.

He used the know-how he learned from Liaopan.

There were two types. One was bubble tea with Hadong oolong tea and the other was Taiwanese oolong tea.

The milk was fresh milk produced by us, and the tapioca was purchased from Taiwan.

Two types of bubble tea were served to everyone.

“Drink it and tell me how you feel.”

I told my colleagues.

The reactions were mixed. There were various opinions from people saying they didn’t know that bubble tea was so delicious, to saying that it was too sweet for my taste.

There was also one common reaction.

It is said that bubble tea made from tea leaves produced in Hadong is better than tea made from tea leaves from Daesan Bay.

I also agreed with that part.

“Then drink this now.”

He gestured to No Hae-mi. She brought another kind of bubble tea.

“Isn’t it like this?”

Han Ki-tak looked at the bubble tea in a transparent glass and said.

“It looks similar, but the taste will be different. Try it once.”

Everyone tasted the newly brought bubble tea.

The expressions on the faces of those who tasted it changed brightly.

“That’s right, it tastes different.”

Han Gi-tak looked at the inside of the glass as if curiously.

“Hmm… the sweetness has changed!”

Seol Min-ju said as if shouting for the correct answer.

“As expected, Minju has a sense of humor. That’s right, the second product has a different sweetness. I used honey instead of sugar.”

As I said, everyone took another sip of bubble tea.

“That’s right, when I eat it again, I can smell the honey.”

Kim Sang-cheol said with a curious expression on his face.

“But I think tapioca pearls taste a little different.”

Seol Min-ju said while tasting the tapioca.

“Yes, the tapioca pearls in the second bubble tea were added with honey from the time of kneading.”

It was an application of the know-how learned at Liaopan’s tea garden.

He tossed sugar on the patio dough.

“It feels like something like honey cake, and it’s fun!”

Baek Min-seok said while chewing the tapioca.

The overwhelming majority of responses were that the taste was better than the first one.

I signed Noh Hae-mi. She brought a bowl.

The bowl was full of black grains.

“It’s tapioca pearls. It is made from starch extracted from the root of a plant called cassava. Because it looks like a black pearl, it got its name as a pearl. It is also a key ingredient in Taiwanese bubble tea. I want to replace this tapioca with other ingredients.”

Hae-mi Noh handed out plates to her colleagues one by one.

“It is not candied or made with honey. Made with only tapioca starch. Try it once.”

Colleagues put tapioca pearls in their mouths and mumbled.

“It just doesn’t taste good, it’s tasteless, it’s tasteless.”

“When it was inside the bubble tea, it was quite edible.”

“It has a chewy texture, but it’s a bit difficult to eat alone.”

“Honestly, if I only eat this, I think it would be a little hard work.”

I soon came up with another plate. There was also tapioca pearls.

“Taste this too.”

Everyone carefully put the tapioca in their mouth. His expression was different from the first.

“It tastes good.”

“That’s right, it’s chewy and tastes good.”

“It certainly looks the same, but the taste is different.”

It was tapioca made with the recipe Liaopan gave me.

As they said, the taste was different.

“How about adding something other than tapioca to our new product?”

“Is it something else?”

Seol Min-ju swallowed the tapioca and asked.

“It’s our new interpretation. Using ingredients other than tapioca, how about sweet potatoes, for example?”

I looked at my colleagues and asked.

“It’s a fun idea to make new tapioca pearls, which are the symbol of bubble tea, with crops produced in Korea. If it is made well, it could be a great product.”

Han Ki-tak said with his eyes twinkling.

“I also have a feeling that the unique taste of sweet potatoes is better than tapioca.”

Baek Min-seok also added an opinion.

It was time for everyone to look at the tapioca with anticipation.

“Because tapioca is also made from starch. Potatoes might also be possible. But how do sweet potatoes taste so chewy?”

Seol Min-joo asked with a worried face. It was her question.

I also thought a lot while doing market research.

It was unclear whether sweet potatoes would be as chewy as tapioca.

“I have been thinking about that too. Then I found a little clue.”

Everyone was watching my mouth.

“It is a method of mixing sweet potato starch powder and glutinous rice flour. If you use glutinous rice flour, I think it can be more chewy than tapioca.”

The faces of colleagues, including Seol Min-ju, turned bright.

“I think there is a possibility in that way. Maybe I can make it more chewy than tapioca.”

Seol Min-joo said with a smile.

“I didn’t just go on a business trip to Taiwan. You have come up with good ideas.”

At Han Ki-tak’s words, colleagues burst into laughter.

“First of all, we call it Sweet Potato Pearl as a pseudonym. I think it would be good to develop sweet potato pearls with me, Haemi Noh, and Minju Seol, who are in charge of new product development. Is Minju okay?”

“If you didn’t do it, I would have asked for it.”

Seol Min-ju was the face that wanted to make sweet potato pearls right away.

It was something I was worried about every time I ate bubble tea in Taiwan.

It was a way to make tapioca the Korean way.

As a crop grown in Korea, I wanted to taste better than tapioca.

While thinking about various crops, I thought of sweet potatoes. I felt there was a lot of potential.

‘The tea produced in Hadong, milk from the farm, honey from beekeeping, and pearl made from sweet potatoes are combined to make Korean bubble tea.’

It was a thought that I put together when my business trip to Taiwan was over.

All of the office colleagues returned to their original positions.

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Noh Hae-mi and Seol Min-ju entered the kitchen inside the ranch.

I taught Seol Min-ju how to make bubble tea.

From how to make bubble tea using cold tea to how to make hot tea, he showed off all the techniques he knew.

She absorbed know-how like a sponge sucking water.

He also shared the know-how he learned from Liaopan.

We immediately made sweet potato pearls using sweet potato starch and glutinous rice flour.

It came out similar in shape to tapioca pearls.

“Wow! I didn’t know it would come out so easily.”

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Noh Hae-mi exclaimed with a curious face. As she said, the shape looked plausible.

We tasted sweet potato pearls for the first time.

“Contrary to how it looks, there is no elasticity.”

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Noh Hae-mi said with a disappointed expression. It melted in your mouth easily with a soft feel. There was hardly any elasticity to be found.

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One positive fact was that it tasted good, unlike tapioca.

“Let’s try it again.”

We were burning with will. The experiment was repeated for over 3 hours already.

“I don’t think it’s this time either.”

It was strange. No matter what ratio the sweet potato pearls were made with, no elasticity was generated.

“Could you give me some time?”

Seol Min-ju looked straight into my eyes and asked.

“I feel like I’m in the same place over and over again. In times like these, it may be faster to organize your thoughts on your own.”

Seol Min-ju said with strength in her eyes. It was a look that asked him to leave it to himself.

“Even if that’s the case, wouldn’t it be helpful if Haemi-san is by my side?”

I looked at No Hae-mi and asked.

Seol Min-joo quietly nodded her head.

* * *

While the two women were making sweet potato pearls, they found Teacher Im Si-baek.

“Sir, I’m here.”

“You’ve come just fine. I was just about to drink the tea you brought from Taiwan.”

The temporary bag pulled out another teacup.

“It smells good. Taiwanese tea is also very good.”

“No matter how good you are, you won’t be able to chase after your stuff.”

He laughed pleasantly.

“Is the new product you are making?”

“I am working hard. Thanks to the teacher’s concern, things are going well.”

“Heh heh, it’s good to hear even empty words. thank god!”

“I’m here today because I have something to tell you.”

“What’s going on?”

“I would like to suggest that the green tea farmers in Hadong work together.”

“Together, what does that mean?”

A light gleamed from the white man’s eyes.

“It’s about creating a cooperative with green tea farmers. Green Tea Producer Cooperative”

“It’s a cooperative.”

When the word co-operative came up, he closed his eyes.

“Co-operatives have tried before.”

Im Si-baek never talked about cooperatives. It was the first story I heard.

It didn’t seem like fun.

“It was me who led it.”

“You… you led the cooperative.”

“There were some problems then.”

“What is the problem?”

“At that time, the military promised to take charge of the sales. He said that he would take responsibility for the sale of the goods produced by the farmhouse.”

Temporary White’s expression hardened.

“You broke your promise.”

“You are right. That’s how it happened. After that, the people who had promised to form a union left one by one. I mean, no one wanted to join a union that didn’t even have a dealer.”

“It happened.”

“I understand your feelings well, but I don’t think the combination will be easy.”

Temporary Baek said comfortingly.

“I think it would be easier.”

“What do you mean, easy?”

“According to the teacher’s advice, didn’t everyone already agree in favor of the union? Of course, on condition that there is a vendor.”

“It was, at that time, there was an appointment with the military.”

“What if I make that promise?”

Im Si-baek looked at me with surprised eyes.

“What do you mean you make that promise?”

“It means I’m selling the car.”

“I know they are buying green tea for yogurt and ice cream. But in that amount…”

“I plan to sell all the teas of Hadong green tea farms.”

“You mean you’re going to sell that many instead?”

I nodded my head confidently and looked at him.

“Is that possible? Jirisan farmers don’t even have a separate store…”

“I am thinking of selling it through the Internet.”

“I heard that you sold farm products over the Internet. It is questionable whether traditional tea will be sold no matter how much the Internet is.”

“I have a good strategy.”

I briefly explained internet marketing to Im Si-baek.

I almost didn’t understand. But I knew exactly what I was talking about.

“My opinion has not changed since then. I hope that green tea farmers will unite. If you, as a disciple, have that level of confidence, then I have to step forward.”

“thank you.”

* * *

It was the way back to the end of the story. I was curious how the sweet potato pearl was going.

I called Noh Hae-mi.

“Haemi, are things going well?”

“I think you should come, sir.”

It was an excited voice.

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