Bubble Tea

[Zandy595]

Has anyone ever had it? What's it like? I saw a show on the Food Network about it and it looked really interesting. I wish I could find someplace around here that served it. Is it something you can make it at home?

 

[Christine]

I've never had it but have heard of it. Our Teavana store sells it at their tea counter.

Doesn't it have tapioca or something in it?

 

[Gurgi]

Oh my gosh I LOVE Bubble Tea!!

Sadly, our Teavana only sells it for you to make it at home now It was sooo good from their counter when they made it!!

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

I have only had it at EPCOT, but I really liked it!!! Can't get it anywhere around here to my knowledge. I couldn't eat the tapioca though - are you supposed to - I wasn't sure. Either way, I tried the tapioca bubbles and didn't really care for them. The tea was very good.

 

[cryssi]

yum! I boba! The tapioca balls are chewy and slightly sweet...most people would probably have an issue with the texture, if you're not used to that sort of thing. Yum. Maybe I'll go get one at lunch today...

My favorite is milk tea with boba...I also like pudding milk tea, melon milk tea...all with boba. Here's the website of a chain out here:

www.lollicup.com

 

[Muffin]

We have quite a few bubble tea places around here. You can either get a smoothie type (blended with milk) or a slushie type (blended with ice). You pick your flavor of tea (I like peach slushie) and then you pick your flavor of bubble, which is a small ball of tapioca (I like mango). They offer you a real fat straw so the bubbles will fit through. And the bubbles are edible and yummy, but I have to admit they are an unusual texture.

I can't imagine making a bubble tea at home. Where do you get the tapioca balls?

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

We have bubble tea all over the place here!

The tapioca balls are a bit much for me at times but one of the local places has other options. I love getting watermelon with pineapple jelly - yum!!

 

[lennon2004]

I love bubble tea! I first had it at a Vietnamese place and it was yummy.

 

[solferino]

I have texture issues. All I can think of are slugs in a smoothie.

 

[mmcguire]

Epcot only had chocolate, which I wasn't too fond of. It tasted like chocolate milk mixed with tea , and the tapioca wasn't very flavorful. The best flavor I've had was coconut in Washington DC.

The "bubbles" are about the size of a small jelly bean, but spherical. If you've ever sucked on a jelly bean until all the sugar coating dissolved, that's roughly the texture of the tapioca balls. They're gelatinous & chewy and stick in your teeth a bit.

 

[tink_n_pooh]

I won a kit to make bubble tea at home (from a tricky tray). I haven't tried it yet, it looks a little odd to me. The box is just sitting on my dining room table, I've thought about regifting it but now maybe I will try it.

If the DIS is talking about it, it must be good.

 

[RickinNYC]

I hate the stuff and call it Booger Tea. Yuck. And we have them EVERYWHERE in the city, particularly down near where I work. I'm right by Chinatown and you can't swing a cat without seeing a shop selling it.

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck.

 

[Imzadi]

I've mostly seen Bubble Tea served in Thai restaurants. It's very popular there, but I haven't tried it.

 

[Zandy595]

"Slugs in a smoothie" and "Booger Tea", huh? You guys make it sound so appetizing. If I tell my DS11 that he'll want to try it.

 

[Libby X 3]

I love some of the flavor of teas.. but the bubbles take some getting used to..My daughter found it quite humorous to let me try her tea and not tell me it was bubble tea. I almost snorted those bubbles everywhere let me tell you..And she just laughed and laughed

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Ranks up there with some of the more disgustingly textured things I've had the misfortune to consume.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

at EPCOT ( a couple years ago) , I had a choice between a berry mix or some kind of melon - I went for the berry...the tapioca bubbles had no flavor at all, so I wasn't interested in chewing on them just for the texture....blech......are the "bubbles" supposed to fit through the straw, 'cause mine didn't and the only way to eat it was to "stab" one with the end of the straw????

 

[Muffin]

are the "bubbles" supposed to fit through the straw, 'cause mine didn't and the only way to eat it was to "stab" one with the end of the straw????

Every one I've had came with a really fat straw that the bubbles fit through. Maybe yours was served with a regular size straw?

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

Every one I've had came with a really fat straw that the bubbles fit through. Maybe yours was served with a regular size straw?

yes. it was ..I have always wondered!!!! Thanx!

 

[MissMinnie]

I hate the stuff and call it Booger Tea. Yuck. And we have them EVERYWHERE in the city, particularly down near where I work. I'm right by Chinatown and you can't swing a cat without seeing a shop selling it.

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck.

This made me laugh. I have never heard of bubble tea. What is it? It sounds kind of gross....................