Bubble tea – or boba tea - originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s. Today, it can embrace all sorts of ideas and concepts. The base of the product is that it’s a tea-based drink with edible balls ...
milk and boba balls. A cup of boba is distinguished by the chunkier straw necessary for slurping. The first U.S. boba drink shops opened in the 1990s but there’s conflicting reports on whether ...
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.
Later, Taiwan would claim to be the birthplace of the boba drink concept, a sweet concoction of an aromatic tea, milk and boba balls. A cup of boba is distinguished by the chunkier straw necessary for ...