Boba Tea Research Paper

Morgan Toms

Professor Gabel

COP2830

7 April 2015

Boba Tea Bubble tea has a variety of different names like: boba tea, tapioca ball drink, black pearl drink, pearl tea drink, pearl milk tea, milk tea; but they’re all referring to a popular Asian fruit/milk tea that typically has chewy balls made out of tapioca at the bottom. The drink is famous for its unique fruity taste and chewy pearls sitting at the bottom of the cup. Typically, boba tea is a colored fruit tea infused with milk (Honeydew being one of their most popular flavors) in a clear cup with a fat straw that you stab through the plastic cover. The fat straw is used so that you 're able to suck out pearls at the bottom. The pearls are about the size of a marble and are chewy like a thick jell-o. Most people would say they don 't have much of a taste. Nowadays, bubble tea is made in many forms. There 's an endless list of fruit tea flavors

Boba tea is an extremely popular Asian drink that originated in Taiwan. If you ever traveled to any Asian country you would notice the cute bubble tea shops all around town, whereas they 're less popular in the States. California is catching onto the trend and the shops are becoming more and more common. Many nail salons in California serve boba tea to their customers as most nail salons are Asian. Unfortunately the trend hasn 't become as well known in Florida and you have to drive a bit to find a shop. Bubble tea originated in Taiwan where tea is one of the most popular drinks. On weekdays as school was being released, children would visit the tea stands set up on corners. One woman made her tea a fruit flavor which became very popular and soon spread around and fruit tea became more and more common. In order to make the fruit tea you had to shake it to mix the flavor, thus became the name "Bubble tea" since there were bubbles at the top of the drink. In 1983 Liu Han-Chieh introduced tapioca pearls to Taiwan and it became popular to put them into your cold fruit tea