Bubble Tea Blows Up
Reader's Digest US|September 2022
WHEN BUBBLE TEA was first introduced to the United States about 30 years ago, you could get it only in mom-and-pop shops in big-city Chinatown and Koreatown. Now it's popping up in cafés around the country; Baskin-Robbins even offered a version this spring and summer.
Sarah Jinee Park
Bubble Tea Blows Up

Classic bubble tea is black tea brewed with milk and sugar, then poured over ice and tapioca pearls (also known as balls or boba; bubble tea is often called boba), and served with an oversized straw so you can slurp up a pearl or two with each sip.

Made from tapioca starch extracted from cassava root, these marble-sized pearls traditionally are boiled and caramelized in brown sugar syrup, giving them their dark color and sweet flavor. (Just take care not to swallow the pearls whole; they're meant to be chewed and savored.)

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