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The History and Flavors of Boba Tea
TLDR Boba tea, also known as bubble tea, originated in Taiwan in the 1980s and became popular in the United States in the 90s. It is made with tapioca pearls and comes in a variety of flavors, ranging from traditional milk tea to more unique combinations.
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Boba tea, also known as bubble tea, can be enjoyed without the chewy tapioca pearls, making it a sweet and tasty drink with various flavors.
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Boba tea, also known as bubble tea, originated in Taiwan in the 1980s and there are competing stories about who first added tapioca balls to milk tea, but it eventually became popular in the United States in the 90s and mainstream in the 2000s.
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Milk tea, the basis of boba tea, originated in the 1940s in Taiwan when a bartender named Chang Fan Xu started mixing up teas and milk to create frothy, bubbly milk tea, and eventually someone added tapioca pearls to create boba tea.
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Boba is Taiwanese slang for "boob" and refers to the tapioca pearls that are added to boba tea, which are chewy, mushy, and gelatinous.
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Boba tea is made with tapioca pearls that have a starchy and sticky consistency, and in Chinese slang, the perfect consistency is called "qq" which means chewy.
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Boba tea flavors can range from delicious to disgusting, with unusual combinations like a salted cheese topping on a sweet milky tea drink, but it's worth trying different flavors like taro or dirty taro without the boba.
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