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Cha Fun Fact 7️⃣ - Did you know we have 3 cafes in Waco and Temple, TX and a food truck? 🥟🧋✨ Our food truck pops up weekly at the Waco Downtown Farmers Market on Saturdays to this day and our storefront cafes are located at:

📍Downtown Temple - 7 N Main St
📍8th St Waco - 1205 S 8th St (shown in photo)
📍Downtown Waco - 1001 Franklin Ave

We are excited to continue bridging cultures and creating community with y’all through our catering, events, popups, and cafe spaces! 🙌 Stay tuned for our full lineup of 8 years business celebration specials very soon this weekend! 🥳✨

Cha Fun Fact 6️⃣

Cha Community is Taiwanese-owned, and Taiwan is the birthplace of modern bubble tea aka boba tea. The tapioca boba or pearls we serve are from Taiwan and made from tapioca starch - which is made from cassava root.

The mountainous terrain in Taiwan also cultivates refreshing oolong tea and many varieties of teas - making it a beautiful island for boba tea to originate from! Many of our loose leaf teas come from either Taiwan, China, Japan, or India. And we are proud to be the only independent Taiwanese-owned boba tea cafe in Waco and Temple, TX!

Stay tuned for our new Taiwanese-inspired drink line coming out soon for our 8 year business anniversary/bday! 🌱🍃🙌

This evening! ♟️🤝🥟

Cha Fun Fact 4️⃣ Real Ingredients - We use real loose leaf tea in our boba teas and drinks - never artificial powders, creamers, or concentrates. And as a result, the fresh taste makes all the difference! From housemade fruit purees to syrup made from organic cane sugar, we make many of our food and drinks in-house and are proud to offer plant-based + customization options on our menu! 🧋🍃🤝

Cha Fun Fact 3️⃣ - Did you know we did not offer pan-fried dumplings on our menu at our downtown cafes and food truck until the COVID-19 pandemic? 🥟✨

It was in the midst of the pandemic that we launched food at our business - originally as Waco Bao - to increase business revenue. Bao means to fold in Chinese and we were excited to hand-fold each and every dumpling. Thankfully we’ve upgraded our equipment since then to increase our housemade dumpling capacity! 💪✨

Our housemade dumplings remind us of the importance of preserving cultural traditions and recipes - especially in communities in Central Texas where less than 2-3% of of the population is Asian. 🏮🤝🥟