Whenever Mr Seah Boon Lock took his family out for dinner on weekends, his daughter, Kun Miao, would be scurrying around in search of bubble tea.
Waiting for her, it struck him how one bubble tea chain was pretty much like another. Even the teas tasted the same.
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