I've never heard of bubble tea....

I kinda' like eggplant too. :D

I really like all kinds of food, especially chocolates(like Mars 'n all).

THAT IS UNTHINKABLE.

 

NO BUBBLE TEA.

 

Until I met Crusher and Spritzie ahahah. :D

Bubble Tea is... Sweetdang you explain. It's hard for me to put it in words. :P

So what in the world is bubble tea? Anyone want to enlighten me?

Bubble Tea is a beverage that consists of COLD tea with milk added with chewy 'pearls'. That's the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Bubble Tea. Though there are so many varieties- I don't know how to explain! :sad01_anim:

So you have to chew your tea? o_O Sounds a bit too odd for my liking.

Not exactly. It's like... I think providing a picture might help...

 

 

Ignore the one the left. As you can see (on the right one), Bubble Tea is basically COLD milk tea/tea with milk with the black things you see called 'pearls' (it's something that you can chew on and eat, and it's meant to taste nothing). And there are actually many varieties of Bubble Tea like-

 

I fail at explaining! :sad01_anim:

That! But now with the explanation from a compulsive Bubble Tea drinker.

 

It's not just cold tea - it's ICE tea. :D Meaning cold but yea. :)

 

You can have red tea, milk tea, green tea and one more which I forgot. I think black tea or something. All variations of tea. I believe it has roots in Taiwanese culture or something. Then you have a list of flavours - grape, honeydew, watermelon, cherry, apple, blueberry, etc. They’re mostly fruit flavours.

 

Choose your mixture – I STRONGLY recommend Lychee Red Tea, although milk tea can be drunk on its own. And if it’s good, it’s positively amazing. Milk Tea <3 <3 <3

 

Anyway. They pour out your tea, crushed ice (sometimes!), and put it into a blender, if there’s ice. If not they just put them into a cup. Then comes the “bubbles”. I don’t really know what they’re made of. :D All I know is, if they’re good – they taste a little like honey, and they’re sweet. They’re black, too. These pearls are chewy and nommy and still manage to be swallowed. The outer bit is softer, the inner bit more chewy.

 

After the (AWESOME SIGNATURE) pearls go in, the plastic cup goes into a machine thing that puts on a sealed lid. Then the person mixes it up and shakes it round, so the flavor gets around. The straw you use is huge, too, so the pearls can be sucked up. One pearl is about… the size of the letter o in Calibri font size 42, or smaller.

 

It’s heaven in a cup. :D

 

Explainy image:

 

Example menus:

 

The tea itself!

(There's a fair chance this is Milk Tea. :D )

 

From a site:

You'll see people toting sealed plastic cups of rich, milky, ice cold tea, some with little black tapioca "pearls" at the bottom. They drink it all up with extra large straws, including the pearls which add a chewy textural joy. There are many flavourings -- hazelnut milk, green apple green tea or ice blended blueberry, to name a few. Milk-free versions are also available. The name "bubble" refers not to the pearls, but to the frothy foam created while shaking the drink in a cocktail mixer, although these days many of the teas are pre-mixed and come without foam.

 

Bubble tea shops are everywhere. Common chains include Sweet Talk, Each-A-Cup and Koi Cafe.

 

THERE. BUBBLE TEA. : D

@Wembly: Is there any stores like this in your country? Singapore has like... tons of it! :D

 

@Sweetdang: Honey Red Tea <3 I've never tried Lychee Red Tea before... maybe I should...

Random: That's a hefty lot of images you got there! :D

Ooo, so they're tapioca. I'm not really a fan of tapioca but the tea part sounds good. We don't really have anything like that. People here aren't really into tea so much as coffee obsessed so I guess similar drink places like Starbucks or Dunkin' Doughnuts but I can't drink coffee so I don't know much about the different sugary coffee drinks.

 

I've never heard of milk tea before. I should try to find some.

You should try a chai tea. It's a spiced black tea mixed in with milk. (It can be ordered hot or cold. I get the iced one.) They have it at Starbucks and it's amazing.

Bubble tea sounds sooo good. Will have to try and track some down. I love chai tea! I've never had it cold but love a hot chai tea latte.

I've never had it hot. My mom introduced me to it, and she likes it iced.

Chai tea is really good hot. You should try it... especially you actually live in a place with a cold winter.

 

I love bubble tea... the tapioca doesn't have much of a flavor, mostly texture. I also like getting smoothies with the boba. mmm.

I might have to do that this weekend. We're supposed to get a big snow storm tonight. <_<

:ohno: snow already? It's been rather warm for fall here lately. I could go for some nice fall weather.

Yep. We had our first bit of snow in the beginning of the month. For the rest of the month, it's been near freezing, or below, at night, then in the 60-70s during the day. But that's supposed to end tonight. We supposedly going to get at least 6 inches.

We went down to highs in the 70s for a week about a month ago, and then back to the 100s. We were in the 90s until yesterday. It doesn't feel like fall...

I'll trade you! Just the last week and a half of cold nights have been enough to rid the trees of almost all of the leaves.

I might have to do that this weekend. We're supposed to get a big snow storm tonight. <_<

 

It's been seasonable where I am, but I never expected some pre-Halloween snow anywhere in the USA. I remember it snowing as early as late November when I was in elementary school. :O

We always get snow early. The last 3 winters, we've gotten our first snows in October, ranging from early to late in the month. I wouldn't be surprised if we had snow in September some years. I know we had a snow storm as late as May last year.

I know there was a really bad one a few years ago... my friend is from CO, and she would drive home for Christmas by herself in the snow. I always thought that was a bit crazy.

 

I'm not sure I'm ready for snow... I'd just like to be out of the 90s! :laughingsmiley:

We had a pretty bad storm in March of 2010. We went to Denver for a concert, and actually got stuck there. All of the highways out of the city were closed. We didn't get home until 6 am the next morning. (And I was supposed to be at work at 7, but I had to call my manager at midnight and tell him I was stuck in Denver.) :laughingsmiley:

If I ever choose to live in US I'm definately coming to Colorado for snow :) <3 I hope we'll have snow soon - which we won't. We'll get in in December and we'll have it till March <_< Anyway in two weeks I'm going to Czech Republic (Prague) and I checked their weather and it says the first snow comes in November for St.Martin (don't take this litterally) - that's means we'll warm ourself with a nice dinner and wine :)

 

Oh and about the tea .. tea with MILK???? Ewwww.

 

I just realized I'm obssesed with snow.

:laughingsmiley: Alaska is pretty good for snow too, but it's insanely cold there.

 

I've never tried any other teas with milk, other than the chai tea, but it's really good. :P