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B u b b l e T e a

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Bubble Tea originated in Taiwan in the early 1980's at a small tea stand.

Elementary school children would look forward to buying a cup of refreshing tea after a long, hard day of work and play. Tea stands were set up in front of the schools and would compete for business with the best selling tea. One concession owner became popular with her tea when she started adding different fruit flavoring to her tea. Because of the sweet and cool taste, children loved the taste. Soon, other concessions heard about the "unique" and popular tea, so they started to add flavoring to their teas. When adding flavor, the tea and flavoring needed to be shaken well for a good all around taste. This formed bubbles in the drink, which came to be known as "Bubble Tea."

In 1983 Liu Han-Chieh introduced Taiwan to tapioca pearls. The new fad was to add tapioca pearls into a favorite drink. Most of the time tapioca pearls were served in cold infused tea. After the tea and flavor were shaken well, it topped tapioca pearls that were sitting on the bottom of a clear cup. The tapioca pearls also looked like bubbles, thus also became to known as "Bubble Tea." Bubbles floated on the top your drink and bottom of your drink.

Bubble tea is also known as boba drink, pearl tea drink, boba ice tea, boba, boba nai cha, zhen zhou nai cha, pearl milk tea, pearl ice tea, black pearl tea, tapioca ball drink, BBT, PT, pearl shake, QQ (which means chewy in Chinese) and possible many others.

Bubble drinks are usually cool, refreshing, and a sweet drink with tapioca pearls sitting on the bottom of a clear cup. Sometimes the drink is made with fresh fruits, milk, and crushed ice to create a healthy milk shake. You can also find drinks that are made of powdered flavoring, creamer, water, and crushed ice. And if you like it like the Asians do, the cool drink usually includes a healthy tea, infused by a flavoring.

Tapioca pearls are black, but can sometimes be found to be white or transparent. Depending on the ingredients of the pearl, the color varies. I've been told that the white and translucent pearls are made of caramel, starch and chamomile root extract. The black pearl includes sweet potato, cassava root and brown sugar, which add the black color. The consistency of tapioca pearls are somewhere between jell-o and chewing gum.

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Do you like to drink bubble tea?
What flavors do you like/dislike?
How often do you drink it?
Do you make it at home?

I love bubble tea! :superhappy: My favorite flavors are honeydew and coffee. I totally dislike watermelon bubble tea because it tastes so weird. Every time I go to Montreal, I buy ingredients to make it at home since there are no bubble tea shops in my town. All the ingredients I need are tapioca pearls and bubble tea powder. It's not as good as the commercial ones though.

I love bubble tea!

I can't pick a definitive flavour that I like since every Bubbletease location and small shop offer so many damn exotic flavours. I think Passionfruit and Lychee are the only ones I remember liking a lot, but they're all good.

I also have yet to distinguish the difference between adding milk or not. It's just that there are so many options for your bubble tea that there's no way I could do the same thing each time, except for putting in the tapioca bubbles. Otherwise it wouldn't really be bubble tea.

I drink it once in a while, since it's like a luxury drink, starting at $3.00+

I wish I could make it at home :(

I like bubble tea, but it's so expensive that I rarely eat it. Strangely, I love watermelon flavour. Mmmmm... Can't be bothered to try making it at home. I don't like having tapioca in my tea though.

I'd rather get guava drink instead. It's cheaper and just as good.

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Originally Posted by Summonmaster

I also have yet to distinguish the difference between adding milk or not. It's just that there are so many options for your bubble tea that there's no way I could do the same thing each time, except for putting in the tapioca bubbles. Otherwise it wouldn't really be bubble tea.

Is it good with milk? What are the other options for bubble tea? I don't know them since I drink regular homemade bubble tea most of the time.

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Originally Posted by Summonmaster

I drink it once in a while, since it's like a luxury drink, starting at $3.00+

I wish I could make it at home :(

For 6~7$ of ingredients (powder + tapioca pearls), you can drink bubble tea up to eight times. The commercial one is the best, though.

I loo~oove Boba/Bubble Tea!! Lucky for me, there's several Taiwanese places very close to my campus that make fabulous bubble tea. Previous to my moving to Texas, the only place I could get any was in LA in Little Tokyo. It's about $3.50+tax, so I only get one once a week on average. However, the one place I go to the most is CoCo's Cafe, and they have about 50 flavors to choose from. They offer Milk tea, regular tea, Smoothies, Slushies hot drinks and plain fruit juice with optional jelly or boba pearls.

My favorites are the Taro root smoothie (tastes like ice cream or something), Green Tea milk or latte and Passionfruit slushie.

I don't really drink a lot but when I do, it's either peach ice tea, thai ice tea, or mango/pinapple smoothie. I usually get it without the tapioca. Just cause.

i love bubble tea
i usually get minds at this shop in austin called "momoko's"
my favorite Tara root... tis good ~_~

I can't tell the difference between having it with milk or not. Maybe it's a smoother texture? I guess that doesn't make sense since the tea is liquid anyways, but I just get that impression.

Options everywhere I go seem to include:
-tapioca or no tapioca
-grass jelly or no grass jelly
-flavoured jelly or no flavoured jelly
-slushie-style, bubble tea, ice
-obviously small, medium, and large

There also seem to be at least 20 different flavours on each menu :S
I would love to make it, but even knowing the ingredients I don't know the process :o What's the difference concerning the "commercial" kind?

Love the stuff...favorite flavor is taro, hands down. And it's like 40 cents in Taiwan, so I had it pretty much as often as I could. :)

I remember there was one guy who never had it before, and he was looking at a picture of it online, and he was like, "Those are tiny cups!" :D

I love bubble tea but I could only get it when I was living in a larger city. In most places they just don't sell it and when they do it is all one flavour and expensive. I would knock back a couple of cans in one go so it became a costly habit.

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Originally Posted by lemonmanko

i love bubble tea
i usually get minds at this shop in austin called "momoko's"
my favorite Tara root... tis good ~_~

That was actually the first place I tried Taro root ^^. The lady said it tasted like ice cream (but didn't say what it was until after I had tasted it). Up 'til that point I had only had Taro root in potato chip form.

I love Bubble tea too! They sell it in a lot of places here, but the main reason I don't drink so often (just like most people) is because of the price. My favorite flavor is still peach. I used to make it at home by buying the mix and the pearls but it just doesn't taste as good as the ones they make in stores so I stopped. I haven't had a bubble tea in months. ;__;

BUBBLE TEA!!!!

If you don't like it and ur azn - ur NOT azn!!!

Lol - no fave flavour but I like iced/smoothied varieties - tastes less fake and watered down.

There is a small local teahouse here that has served bubble tea to this area for more than three years. Great stuff, and my fav has got to be the strawberry.

They also do live music every thursday night and serve homemade lunches (wraps/steamed dumplings/etc)

My favorite is coconut flavour.

I'm a rabid bubble tea fan. There's a great little place in a strip mall downtown that serves 20 flavours of it. I'm addicted to the honeydew melon one. My god, SO good.

I only drink almond milk black tea, once in awhile I'll try a thai iced tea but it's hard for the places to get it right so I always stick to certain locations. Tried making it, but you need the really expensive almond powder that Ten Ren uses so I'd rather just buy it. We did find a place that was buy one get one free, but now it's only buy one get one free after 6 :(