Many people think the festival began in 2022. But the idea actually started much earlier — back in 2018.
At the time, I found myself thinking about a simple question: what would it look like if Vancouver had a festival dedicated to bubble tea?
By the end of 2019, we had started preparing seriously. The original plan was to launch the first festival in 2020. But as everyone knows, something unexpected happened. The pandemic arrived, and the entire world pressed pause. The festival plans had to pause as well.
Sometimes things in life are like that — not because you don't want to do them, but because the timing simply isn't right.
Then in the summer of 2022, the first Canada Bubble Tea Festival finally came to life.
Looking back, it still feels a little surreal. An idea that once existed only in my mind has slowly grown into a city-scale festival.
Looking ahead, my hope is to build the Canada Bubble Tea Festival into one of the most recognized bubble tea festival brands in the world — a place where people from different cultures and communities can come together over a single cup of bubble tea.
— Eric YangFounder, Canada Bubble Tea Festival
