dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Has anyone tried any of these boba teas? I've heard of them but never tried one before. My son brought some home - Lady Boba Grass Jelly Bubble Tea. It's like if a can of puke was made to taste good.
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Boba Tea - thoughts? (1 Viewer)
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El Floppo
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Eephus
Footballguy
We live a couple doors down from a place that sells boba. I drank a lot of them when they first opened in the neighborhood so I'm kind of burned out now.
My regular order was milk tea Hong Kong style, 25% sweet with tapioca boba. I'm not a big fan of grass jelly, the black boba has a better texture.
My regular order was milk tea Hong Kong style, 25% sweet with tapioca boba. I'm not a big fan of grass jelly, the black boba has a better texture.
Chaz McNulty
Footballguy
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
I drank it a lot when I was over in Taiwan for work for a few months. I liked it, but IMO, it had very little to do with the tapioca bubbles. I would have liked it just as much if they had just served me very tannic black iced tea sweetened with condensed milk but without bubbles. In that sense it's just like Frisian tea and southern sweet tea. Very strong tea cut by tons of sweetness.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Seems like it could be a choking hazard for some people? I wouldn't want to drink this if I had strep throat.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Your kids love these? Been a favorite of my daughter for a good 7-8 years. Yaya Tea and Tiger Sugar might be within your 15-block bubble.
El Floppo
Footballguy
floppinho does for about the same timeframe. a bunch of places have come and gone in the neighborhood... vivitea, I think is one of them locally- iirc, we'd get them coming back from School of Rock as it was next to our bus stop on Allen. don't remember yaya or tiger.... but I do remember searching someplace out when they were still only in Chinatown. and there was some spot on Union Square East.
I liked them too back then for a hot sec, until those tapioca balls became a bit much.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
meh ...rather have a good iced coffee - the tapioca balls were not my thing.
NutterButter
Footballguy
I enjoy them. Favorite flavor is honeydew. Costco sells Boba milk ice bars which I just bought tonight and are pretty tasty.
ericttspikes
Footballguy
Jasmine Milk Tea is my favorite. Tasty $#%&.
heckmanm
Footballguy
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
Lot of variability with boba tea imo. I’ve went to places that have great boba—and I’ve went to places where I had to throw it out after my first taste. It’s very hit or miss. If your first experience with it is a miss—you’re probably not going to want to try it again—but if you do decide to try it again—check reviews and go to a different spot.
NutterButter
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
I've found that with the boba itself. Some times its just too hard nttawwt. The flavors are really hit and miss. Some are terrific and others are terrible.
massraider
Footballguy
Don't like milk in my tea, and never thought I needed little slimy black balls in my beverage.
heckmanm
Footballguy
Not sure where you're located, but I'm not exactly in a hotbed of Asian culture here. We just happen to have a couple of shops doing bubble teas along with banh mi or noodle dishes, and they have a pretty wide range of flavors.
Foosball God
Foos
Wife and daughter love them. I'm not into the tapioca pearls, they always seem to be caught between the worst forms of soft and somewhat hard and chewy. I've had some different ones with the popping kind, but really I could just do without them all together.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Eephus
Footballguy
They're kind of blurple.
Tapioca pearls are pretty durable. I live a few doors down from a Boba Guys and there are occasional cases of people dropping their drink on the sidewalk. They're recognizable as ex-boba for days afterwards as they decompose.
Doug B
Footballguy
This is where I'm at.
There are loads of good flavors at our local boba tea places ... and my wife and I just order them without tapioca balls. What's called "Thai Tea" at our local boba joints is the current favorite (our local Thai restaurants sell Thai tea as well).
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I always understood "bubble tea" and "boba tea" to be synonymous or near-synonymous. If there is a difference, I haven't learned it yet. "Bubble-Something" or "Something Bubbles" was a common naming convention for boba tea places around here for a while, maybe ~10 years back. A popular one called Mr. Bubbles has been around at least that long, and many others have come and gone.
Van Dyman
Footballguy
Luv luv luv me some Thai tea.
ETA: local supermarkets have one but oddly place it in the cleaning products section. I think it's called "Scrubbing Bubbles" or something like that. It's nasty. Would not buy again.
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