Originally, boba tea was just iced milk tea with tapioca pearls. Texture is an important component of Taiwanese cuisine; a lot of dishes on the island exist more for their mouthfeel than flavour ...
I am a huge bubble tea fan, but I’ve never quite had the patience needed to queue up in the Hong Kong summer heat for a cup of iced milk tea – perhaps because I’ve never had to. Whenever I ...
is a popular iced-tea drink from Taiwan. It was created in the late 1980s when milk tea had already been common in Asian countries. Bubble tea combines a base of milk tea, sweetener, and "bubbles ...
Back then, it was prepared by shaking freshly brewed black or green tea, sugar syrup, milk and ice in a cocktail shaker, which created the drink’s signature foam. At the time, the cold drink was ...