When bubble tea was first introduced to the West, you could get it only in cheery mom-and-pop shops in big-city Chinatowns and Koreatowns. While Asians and Asian Americans have been drinking bubble ...

My earliest memory of bubble tea is trying it for the first time on a family trip to Shanghai; I was 7 or 8, and I was so obsessed with my new discovery that I couldn’t stop prattling on and on, ...

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Boba tea, or bubble tea, is a popular tea-based drink made with tea, milk, sweeteners and tapioca balls. You can choose a ...

The boba pearls in the drink are made from cassava, a known source of the heavy metal Bubble tea is often made with tea, milk, sweetener, and boba. By Kevin Loria Bubble tea is everywhere. In plenty ...

Behind the counter of The Bowl in Lynbrook, Olivia Lim operates a lab of sorts, one lined by containers of powder — non-dairy creamer, powdered taro, coconut — as well as buckets of glistening jelly ...

Bubble tea is everywhere. In plenty of downtown areas, it’s hard to miss people walking about carrying cups of the beverage, sipping through extra-wide straws designed to suck up the boba—the chewy ...