Poppy's Asian Tour: India

The Scoop

Pop Bubble Tea is thrilled to announce Poppy’s Asian Tour 2024, an exciting journey through Asia via a series of special bubble tea releases! The tour reaches its final stop on Thursday, August 1st, landing in India and highlighting chef and restaurateur, Meherwan Irani, who is changing the perception of Indian food in America with the Chai Pani Restaurant Group! In 2009, Chef Meherwan Irani (who grew up in Ahmednagar, in the midwestern state of Maharashtra in India) opened Chai Pani with his wife and business partner, Molly. It was the bottom of the great recession, but they had a crystal clear vision of what Chai Pani could be: They’d serve street food and home-cooked meals — the most underrepresented Indian foods in Western culture — by way of the unparalleled hospitality modeled to Meherwan as a child in his parents’ bed & breakfast. Chai Pani has since been recognized as sparking a revolution in Indian cuisine in America.