Bubble tea

[MickeyMouseGal]

It looks interesting. What do you think and does anyone have any pictures of it?

 

[Dis31]

ewww I dont like it much at all. I've had it here in NYC and I wouldn't recommend it but I'm not a very adventurous one. Bubble tea is a tea beverage with tapioca balls mixed in.

 

[christygobar]

I've had it and it scared me

I was at this lil tea shop in downtown Chicago (this was it! http://argotea.com/) and my friend dared me to order one. I got a coconut bubble tea. The tea itself was very yum! But tapioca balls freak me out. I was afraid I'd choke on them when I sucked them up the straw!! It gave both of us giggle fits for an hour or so.

They tasted good though She got the mango tea and didn't like it as much.

So if you can get over the thought of sucking up gummy balls through a straw, go for it. I couldn't!

Here is an image from Wikipedia. It really does look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pearl_Milktea.jpg

 

[Dis31]

http://www.bubbletea.com/


Oh yea my fav part of the drink was the ICE lol

 

[MickeyNicki]

where in WDW do you get it?

 

[FigmentLover]

We have a tapioca bar here in town. I haven't had a bubble tea myself. But those that have had them seem to like them

 

[Laurajean1014]

It's loaded with calories. About 340 for 8-10 oz. That's more than a Coke or Pepsi.

Lots of sugar, too.

 

[sleepycor]

i love bubble teas.. they have so many tea shops that sells them in chinatown here..(NYC)

they are quite tasty IMO

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

How is the bubble tea at Lotus Blossom in EPCOT?

 

[denecarter]

A couple of years ago, the CM at the CS at China in Epcot talked me into trying a drink that had little gummy ball things in it. It was very refreshing, as she had said it would be. I remember it tasting fruity... not a tea.

Think I may have to go try it again.

 

[Kanikazi]

My DD is in college in the Seattle area. When I went to visit her for a weekend in March, she kept going on about how she and her friends liked to go down to the University district for Bubble Tea. I imagined some kind of carbonated tea beverage. She dragged me down there (imagine a 40-something Pooh sized mom surrounded by hordes of students who all looked like they could use a home cooked meal) and ordered me a tea. All it is is a fruit smoothie (they do have some very unusual flavor selections) with what looks like about two inches of blueberries in the bottom. You drink it with a 1/2 inch diameter straw. The "blueberries" are actually tapioca balls, slightly sweet, gummy and chewy. They take a long time to consume.

I liked them!

 

[Thori]

There's different types of drinks you can order at the places here depending on the size of the shop.

The harmless* ones are the fruit smoothies and slushies and I personally think the "milk tea" (sort of like iced black chai, I can't think of a better comparison but meeeeeeh.. it's not one of my favorites, too much and it drys out my tongue, LOL!) that started out the whole fad is an aquired taste. Before Starbucks opened on every other corner in Hong Kong, hot milk tea was the drink of choice for caffiene

The typical tapioca used are dark and round (kind of like lightly sweet, mushy gummy candy), some fancier (usually Japanese) places have different/rainbow colors tapioca balls and Vietmese places have "grass jelly" that are about the same with a stiffer texture, not as chewy and are long strands instead of round. You can also buy tapioca at Asian supermarkets or kits to make your own tea at home.

My staple is a mango shake but I like lychee, taro (root - tis a very pretty purple color and usually just tastes sweet-ish) and almond (w/jelly). I tend to crave the tapioca more than the drink though

*..do NOT ever try Durian fruit if it's on the menu if you are not adventerous, it's quite the "delicacy", just the smell of it makes me run away as fast as possible.

 

[anneofgreengables]

I like the ones with coffee flavors.

 

[SILLYANDI]

I was really confused and intrigued until I got to the link, then I realized it is what they call "boba" tea in California. Maybe that's so that they could charge us more!