Pearl milk tea
Bubble tea, also known as Boba milk tea, Pearl milk tea or bubble milk for short, is a tea drink popular in Taiwan . After adding powder balls to the milk tea , it becomes bubble milk tea.
Pearl milk tea is a type of Taiwan’s ” bubble black tea ” culture. Although it only adds tapioca rice balls to milk tea, it has become one of Taiwan’s most representative drinks and snacks.
Bubble tea is a fun drink that typically consists of black or oolong tea , milk or fruit flavor, sweetener , and a chewy texture in Taiwanese cuisine called QQ (you might think of the “bubbles” in bubble tea). Most often, QQ comes in the form of tapioca pearls.
The name “bubble tea” originally came from the bubbles that form when the milk tea is shaken, rather than the interesting pearls in the drink. The drink is known by many other names, including ” bubble tea ,” “boba tea,” and “tapioca tea.”
Origin of Pearl milk tea
In the early days there was only one title. Around 1988, a vendor called “Grasshopper” on Haian Road in Tainan City renamed pearl milk tea Boba milk tea after being inspired by the then actress Ye Zimei . Later, in southern Taiwan, the saying that boba refers to large pink circles and pearls refers to small pink circles gradually emerged. As chain stores in southern Taiwan expand to northern Taiwan, this classification is gradually accepted by Taiwanese residents.
Outside of Taiwan, the term “BOBA” or “Bubble” is also commonly used. The reason is that new Chinese immigrants to North America in the late 1980s still used “Boba Milk Tea” as a motto. As a result, “BOBA Tea House”, “BOBA Planet”, “BOBA World” and other teahouses have sprung up all over California . Currently, non-Chinese residents still Say “BOBA” or “Bubble” all over your mouth. They will say to the waiter at the counter in English: “Give me latte , and add some BOBA in, please.”
Pearl milk tea generally uses larger-sized powder balls, and the diameter after cooking is about 7 mm or more. Otherwise, if the diameter is too small, it will be easy to fill your mouth with pearls, and it will be inconvenient to swallow and chew. But most bubble tea merchants still provide small pink and round pearls. Of course, there is also a kind of “amber pearl”, which is made of 100% brown sugar.
