BUBBLE DRINKS: C or D?

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i fondly remember my first pearl tea experience: toronto's chinatown about 7 years ago...

my favorite flavor is definitely the mango/honeydew combination... ask the pearl tea provider if they'll mix both flavors for you. you will not be disappointed.

strangely, the m0untain g0ats's sweden figured heavily on this particular trip... weird ILX freaky coincidence that shouldn't be mentioned but it's too late now: eek!!!

<^> @_@ <^>

― gygax!, Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

imagine one of those tapioca bullets hurtling towards the back of your throat down the muzzle of an oversized straw.

That's why they're cool...

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sounds like Ally needs Bubbledrinkers Anonymous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i think straw placement is key in minimizing potential death by tapioca...

point straw toward roof of mouth rather than toward epiglotis (sp?).

― gygax!, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just tried one for the first time at the Great Wall Mall south of Seattle. There's something about the texture of the tapioca balls that turns me right OFF. But they look really nice.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm with you, Ally. My response to Bubble Drinks is near-primal: every single aspect of them punches every last one of my buttons.

Incidentally, they're pretty easy to make at home -- we tried, and they were super-yummy! Boiling the tapioca takes a while & you have to be really patient, but fresh fruit instead of fruit powder + fresh sugar syrup = super ultra yummus bubble drink delish delish -- this past summer we had watermelon, honeydew, and Santa Claus melon

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's something deeply wrong-sounding about the phrase "Santa Claus melon". It's like you made a drink out of his head.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Seattle also has the Pochi Tea Station in the U-district, which is a place I frequent whenever I'm in the area... they also serve a strange variety of crepes and toast, and play Japanese pop karaoke DVDs in the TV monitor inside.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

-"egg noggin"?

actually, those balls are so sickeningly sweet that the first time I tried one I actually spat/launched it out about 10 feet. blech.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's like you made a drink out of his head.

The latest retro-tiki trend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

ally wrote:
plus you can get them in this gigantic Big Gulp size there.

sorry, i love them, but that would make me barf.

― gygax!, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

point straw toward roof of mouth rather than toward epiglotis (sp?)

dude i did! those little buggers will riccochet around inside your face if you let 'em!

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Incidentally, they're pretty easy to make at home -- we tried, and they were super-yummy! Boiling the tapioca takes a while & you have to be really patient,

Hence my non-participation in the sport of tapioca pearl drink making. I haven't a drop of patience in my body. I bought my little sisters a bubble drink kit for their birthday which they seem to like quite a lot. It takes like a good long time for the tapioca to boil though, which I just can't do.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm so happy that I'm writing this two blocks away from Saint's Alp, where I'm going next....

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

if I had the energy to move I'd go down there too but alas I need to stay home and eat soup.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Saint's Alp

Thank you for writing that correctly.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I aim to please

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

if I had the energy to move I'd go down there too

(Sorry, I'm bored and need to go to work.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 November 2002 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

During this summer, I would go down to Chinatown in Philly, since it was and still my best place to shop. I seen about three or four bakery shops, with posters of Pearl Bubble Drinks. I thought they were interesting and decided to try one. The one I tried was Strawberry, and it was the best one I ever tasted!The tapioca balls looked weird, but when one popped in my mouth, it made me laugh. Even though I haven't tried all of them, I'm planning to!

― Kenelle Lee, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

I can't believe Adam was able to find these in New Orleans when I couldn't. Dude, I lived just down the street from Little Vietnam (where I got the p!n3appl3 zomb!3 &c.). The fuck?

Anyway:

http://www.idea-inc.com/~bill/lj/chewme.jpg

Ginger bubble tea. It looked prepackaged, but couldn't have been (despite being sealed) I don't think, because it had a couple ice cubes in it. Spicy. Tea-y. Classic.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 18 June 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i always get nervous when i see people giving their young children bubble tea. don't those pearls seem like a huge choking hazard for little mouths?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 18 June 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I worry enough that I'll choke on one -- but they're soft enough that they're probably less of a choking hazard than candy of similar sizes ... (how young are we talking?)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 18 June 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i think it's the straws that worry me. it seems like a rogue pearl could come up really fast and catch the child by surprise. a 3 or 4 year old isn't really looking out for things like that. then again, i'm a horribly neurotic worrier.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 18 June 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

The ones with the salty-sweet creama on top are a revelation!

― ljubljana, Friday, 21 August 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link

five years pass...

diaspora piece:
https://www.eater.com/2019/11/5/20942192/bubble-tea-boba-asian-american-diaspora

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link

Why a long article about bubble tea gets published in 2020:

The global bubble tea market, valued at $1.9 billion by Allied Market Research in 2016, is projected to reach sales of $3.2 billion by 2023.

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link

thought it was interesting. that Chinese people drank tea with milk and that's how the practice was introduced to Europe was a new one to me.

drinking bubble tea rn. taro flavored with brown sugar pearls and sago. delish

― Babby's Yed Revisited (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 19 December 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link

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