ChaPanda

ChaPanda (Simplified Chinese: 茶百道; Pinyin: Chá bǎi dào) is a Chinese new-tea chain positioned in the mid-market made-to-order tea segment. This page records cultural and category context for Chinese Drink readers—not shop listings or promotions.

History and expansion

The first ChaPanda store opened in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 2008 under founders Wang Xiaokun and Liu Weihong. From a provincial base the brand densified across China and, by the mid-2020s, was routinely cited among the largest freshly made tea shop networks by retail sales.

Sichuan Baicha Baidao Industrial Co., Ltd. / ChaPanda completed a Hong Kong Main Board listing on 23 April 2024 (stock code 2555). IPO-period materials cited roughly 8,016 mainland stores covering all provincial-level regions as of early April 2024, with a relatively balanced mix of shopping-mall, community, and other street formats. An overseas teahouse in Seoul opened in January 2024 according to contemporaneous trade coverage; the company has also tested adjacent concepts such as a coffee café brand in Chengdu. Store totals and overseas plans remain moving targets.

Products and brand style

ChaPanda sells made-to-order milk teas, fruit teas, and related cups aimed at everyday mid-price customers rather than premium sit-in café positioning. Drink forms overlap with Bubble Tea shop culture. Public menus rotate seasonally; encyclopedia pages note category role instead of advertising specific SKUs. Traditional leaf service is covered separately on Tea.

Culture and collaborations

Industry and fan discussion often associate ChaPanda with visible anime and game collaborations—campaigns that generate queue talk and themed cups similar to other mid-market tea chains. Those dated events should be recorded on Drink IP Collab Timeline. On the wiki brand table ChaPanda sits between premium café-tea names such as Nayuki / Heytea and high-volume value players such as Mixue, alongside peers like Guming.

Because ChaPanda’s densification covered first-tier through lower-tier cities in relatively even proportions (as described in listing-period breakdowns), it is frequently used in industry charts as a mid-market “national coverage” example rather than a single-region specialist. Cross-border tests and secondary coffee concepts show how mid-tier tea groups experiment beyond the core milk-tea window.

See also

• Chinese Drink
• Bubble Tea
• Nayuki
• Guming
• Mixue
• Drink IP Collab Timeline

References

• ChaPanda / 茶百道 Hong Kong IPO listing documents and HKEX announcements (stock code 2555; listing 23 April 2024).
• Frost & Sullivan market-ranking citations reproduced in IPO materials (2023 retail sales share).
• Forbes and Chinese business-data outlets on Chengdu founding (2008) and founder Wang Xiaokun.