BUBBLE DRINKS: C or D?

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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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