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Ingredients. 1 cup tapioca pearls. Loose leaf tea. Brown sugar or sweetener of choice. Milk of choice. Directions Step 1: Prep the tapioca pearls. Most brands sell tapioca pearls uncooked, so you ...
In Taiwan, bubble tea is commonly referred to as pearl milk tea (zhēn zhū nǎi chá, 珍珠奶茶) because originally, small tapioca pearls with a 2.1 mm (1 ⁄ 12 in) diameter were used. It was only when one tea shop owner—in an attempt to make his tea stand out—decided to use larger tapioca balls and chose a more provocative name, "boba ...
While some cafés may serve bubble tea in a glass, most Taiwanese bubble tea shops serve the drink in a plastic cup and use a machine to seal the top of the cup with heated plastic cellophane. [10] The method allows the tea to be shaken in the serving cup and makes it spill-free until a person is ready to drink it. [11]
Ever since the first wave of boba tea shops hit the U.S. in the 1990s, the popularity of the Taiwanese drink with floating tapioca balls sipped through oversized straws has been bursting.
Xing Fu Tang (Chinese: 幸福堂; pinyin: Xìngfú táng; transl. realm of happiness) is a Taiwanese multinational chain of bubble tea restaurants. Founded by Edison Chen in Taipei in 2018, the franchise has expanded to over 150 locations in over 18 countries as of 2023.
A sweet Taiwanese drink nicknamed in honor of a Hong Kong celebrity, bubble tea – also known as boba tea – has become an unstoppable worldwide trend since it was invented in the 1980s.
Boba tea—a Taiwanese drink that consists of milk, tea and balls of tapioca—is all the rage right now. And yes, it is texturally exciting and downright delicious…but what is boba, exactly?
Chhoah-peng (Taiwanese Hokkien: 礤冰 or 剉冰; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoah-peng) [1] or Tsua bing, also known as Baobing (Chinese: 刨冰; pinyin: bàobīng) in Mandarin, is a shaved ice dessert introduced to Taiwan under Japanese rule, [2] and then spread from Taiwan to Greater China and countries with large regional Overseas Chinese populations such as Malaysia and Singapore.