A milk tea shop in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, has been attracting throngs of customers every day since it opened this month.

People wait in line for hours to get a cup. Many pay ten times the price for people to wait-in-line for them or deliver, some even paid up to 500 yuan to jump the line.

The tea beverage industry is booming in China with more than 600,000 milk tea shops nationwide.