hannah boba lover
boba is so cool i love it so much beacuse it can be customized so much and its rly tasty.
Some of the popular flavors are Milk Tea, Thai Tea, Taro Bubble Tea, and fruit tea.
My favorite flavor is Milk Tea which is the regular flavor but I also like fruit tea!
Bubble Tea is usually made with four ingredints. Milk, sugar, black tea, and tapioca balls.
The tapioca balls in bubble tea have intreseting chewy taste that goes very nicely with the bubble tea. You can order bubble tea without the balls if you don't like them though.
Back in the 1600s during the partial Dutch colonization of Taiwan, the combination of tea, milk, and sugar was introduced and became popular in Taiwan. This milk tea drinking culture endured up to modern times. It was also during the colonization times that tapioca was introduced to Taiwan (and Asia in general). Tapioca comes from the cassava root, a plant native from South America. This introduced another type of starch in Asia and Southeast Asia. Tapioca starch versions of already familiar dishes started to become more popular over time. For example, sago pearls were slowly replaced by tapioca pearls, mainly due to tapioca being a cheaper option. So before bubble tea was invented, shaved iced and tapioca pearls were already relatively common desserts in Taiwan.
The Hanlin Tea Room of Tainan claims that bubble tea was invented in 1986. The story says that the teahouse owner Tu Tsong-he saw tapioca balls in the local market of Ah-bó-liâu. There he thought of the idea of using the tapioca pearls in his tea. Thereafter, this new tea with tapioca bubbles which was shaken creating more bubbles (i.e. bubble tea!) became a hot seller at his shop. Hanlin now operates over 80 branches of his shop in Taiwan and around the world..
The founder of the Chun Shi Tang tea room in Taichung, Liu Han-Chieh, visited Japan during the 1980s. There she was served cold coffee. Inspired by Japan, she decided to serve cold Chinese tea. This new technique did wonders for her business. Soon, multiple chains were established that started serving cold tea. According to the product development manager of the company, she invented the first bubble tea in 1988. During a staff meeting, she poured tapioca balls into her cold tea and gave it to everyone to drink. Everyone in the company loved the boba. Soon, the newly invented bubble tea became popular and the top-selling product.
I love boba so much!!!