Simu Liu Calls Out Boba Tea Company for Potential Cultural Appropriation

A boba company is in hot water after Chinese Canadian actor Simu Liu voiced concerns about cultural appropriation on CBC’s “Dragons’ Den.” On the show — Canada's take on 'Shark Tank' — Sébastien Fiset and Jess Frenette, founders of a Quebec-based bottled bubble tea brand called Bobba, were seeking $1 million in exchange for 18% of the company. Liu appeared as the show’s “first celebrity Dragon.

So for that reason, I’m out,” he concluded. Liu’s critical comments were met mostly with disagreement from his fellow Dragons. In defense of the Bobba founders, investor Manjit Minhas said, “There can be new takes on things. Not everything has to be traditional.” In response, Fiset said the company’s popping boba makes the product not “ethnical,” and Minhas agreed, saying that’s what made the beverage “new.

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