Taiwan is the Boba Tea capital of the World

Posted by YenChuan on November 11th, 2019

The midday caffeine hit is a Boba break and a shoulder-slung Boba cup holder is the must-have accessory. Over several decades, these bracing cups of sweet, creamy, chewy refreshment — which are also called “bubble tea” and “pearl milk tea” — have become a go-to beverage throughout the world.

What is it?

The word “Boba” can refer to either a category of chunky drinks — including everything from iced tea containing tapioca pearls to fresh juice loaded with fruity bits. Boba tea, bubble tea, and pearl milk tea — in Taiwan, zhenzhu naicha (珍珠奶茶) — are different names for the same thing.

The tapioca pearls are made from tapioca starch, an extract of the South American cassava plant, which came to Taiwan from Brazil via Southeast Asia during the period of Japanese rule between 1895 and 1945.

There are more than 21,000 Boba shops in Taiwan, with thousands more around the world. People have started taking tapioca bubble tea as a substitute for coffee.

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These are the famous Boba teas that you need to try!

Classic Milk Tea

Black tea is shaken with foamy milk, ice, and a few handfuls of marble-sized, caramelized tapioca pearls. There are varied milk and many teas, but the classic still satisfies.

Brown Sugar

Rich Brown sugar Boba tea:

A milk-heavy Boba drink doused with a shot of sweet brown sugar syrup, all swirling in a beautiful gradient of cocoa-browns and pearly whites. 

Taro Milk Tea

Taro bubble tea is notable for its color, which runs from purple-tinged brown to nearly lilac, and its coconut-like flavor, taro (a root vegetable similar to a sweet potato) is squashed and added to Boba milk tea, it acts as a thickener and flavoring.

Fruit-Filled

Widespread fruity flavors include mango, lychee, winter melon, lemon, and even tomato, and they come with Boba pearls but also other stuff, like aiyu jelly (made with the seeds of a local variety of creeping fig), watermelon cubes, and crunchy passion fruit seeds.

Fully Loaded

The tapioca pearls have slowly evolved past the standard sugary taste and cover a wild spectrum of flavors like grass jelly, aloe Vera, almond jelly, custardy egg pudding, adzuki beans, panna cotta, chia seeds, sweet potato balls, also Oreo cookies. Including sea salt, cheese, wood ear mushroom, quinoa, tomato, chocolate, Sichuan pepper, jujube, and barley.

Eye Candy

Surf and search Boba-focused feed to site bright, spicy drinks with red-hot pearls and a sprinkling of Chile powder, tie-dye versions made with blue butterfly pea, and jet-black cups filled with inky (and detoxifying) charcoal.

Cheese Tea

A drink combining powdered cheese and salt with whipping cream and milk to form a foamy, tangy layer on the top of a cup of cold tea. The cheese-topped drink is now popular in many parts of Asia.