September 2019

STATEN ISLAND, NY - While a student at FDR High School in Brooklyn, Michelle Chen came up with a business idea for a class assignment. Traced over ten years ago, this concept recently became reality when the owner opened Lil M Bubble Tea…

Samuel Wang sips Dragonwell green tea at his new Chinatown tea shop, Steep, on a recent afternoon as he leads a Chinese tea ceremony. He warms my cup of tea with hot water, then rinses it in a bowl. He pours more hot water into a beaker…