/ck/ - Food & Cooking

i love it, its like a dessert and a drink, I think good tapioca should be really chewy, giving it a better texture than jellies

>>12947180
its okay. more a snack than a refreshing drink.

>>12947180
Not a fan, the texture is kinda weird. I don't usually expect drinks to be so chewy.

>>12947180
Tried it once and hated the sensation of sucking bouncy balls up a giant straw into my mouth.

>>12947180
i like it

*slurpppp*

>>12947264
I bet you like slurping nigger cum down your throat too, you fucking faggot

>>12947180
Virtue signaling food, literally nothing more than that, shoved down our throats by instagram "influencers" and the university crowd in general

I don't know what that one is but I assume it's from smelly baha men? They won't stop at somalians, they weren't satisfied with letting in MS-13, now it's smelly baha men who want to "let their dogs out" on my lawn. How about no thanks and fix your own problems? First it's some kind of fish soup from a straw, next do I have to learn their pidgin english? Let their kids shit in my living room?

Liberalism is mental illness

>>12947264
So do I
*slurpppp*

Literally milk tea with a 2-3 dollar markup. I like it but I absolutely fucking hate the hype and culture around it.

>>12947402
its the asian equivalent of the frappacino

but with snacks in it, pudding, jelly, aloe vera, pearls...

>>12947289
>pidgin
Thanks for reminding me.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

>>12947180
Are those blueberries or what the fuck?

>>12947482
>go to page
>its actually serious
>bbc.com

wtf is this............?

>>12947485
tapioca balls (called pearls)

cooked in syrup
like a dense chewy gummy bear

>>12947502
Seriously?
Fucking candy in milk tea is the big thing now?

>>12947510
>now
Last I saw it was a big thing in 2015-16 but I also haven't been around people much since late 2016. We had one pop up in our 14k pop town, it has since shut down. I'd be surprised if that garbage was still big.

>>12947522
I'm from europe and have only ever heard or seen this on the internet and have belived that it's strictly an american thing

>>12947510
>now
the drink was invented in 1990s taiwan

the initial craze started spreading here in asia around the early 2000s, stores selling cheap low quality bubble tea at $1 per cup..artificial flavours and powdered instant tea, there were stores everywhere, targeted at kids and teens/young adults

then the bubble burst and it died down a bit

afterwards around 2010s it came back as a higher quality/mid market product, quality tea and proper chewy pearls, drinks at $3-$7 each with lots of gimmicks like matcha foamed milk tea, pudding in tea, azuki beans in tea, flavoured pearls etc..

the trend then migrated to america, canada, australia etc where there are lots of asian diaspora and there you have it

the latest craze in the boba tea world is brown sugar syrup + milk

>>12947510
the toppings arent *that* sweet, its just a chewy thing for you to munch on in between sips of tea/slushie

>>12947571
that sounds kind of strange

>>12947578
asians have a strong fascination with chewy foods, idk
its like cultural ADHD, a fidget spinner for the mouth
even before boba tea it was mochi and rice cakes and kuehs

>>12947578
It's very gross and off putting.

>>12947463
I used to call it the asian mall smoothie, but I guess the frappe comparison makes more sense.

Its good once in awhile, I'm personally sick of it cause I live in an Asian dominated area where you can find a bubble tea place almost everywhere

>>12947180
its so good bruh
i cant stop
i literally bought 1 cup a few hours ago

slurrrrrp slurrrrrp slurrrrrp

It's alright but usually insanely priced for what you get and honestly the tapioca balls don't really add much except a weird texture.

coconut skin > tapioca balls

>>12947708
does "boba" have those liquid-filled balls too? I drank "bubble tea" which had that together with the "solid" tapioca balls. Is "boba" the same?

>>12947717
didnt mean to quote

>>12947717
those are different, they are called popping pearls or popping bobas and they come in all sorts of fruit flavours

>>12947729
both times Ive had the drink (in 2 different countries, mind you) they have been with a mix of the "popping pearls" and the regular non-popping tapioca balls

>>12947524
It’s a taiwanese thing that almost all countries with even a small population of east asians know about. You probably live behind the iron curtain.

>>12947180
it's great, but I hate it when people put ice in my tea
it's just less room for boba and more room to ruin the consistency/taste of my drink

>>12948001
you can ask for less ice/no ice