/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12876573
Where do you even get these anyway?

>>12876576
Quite a few cities have cafes that sell them, other than that, not that many places offer it

>>12876573
better to get these from hole in the wall Chinese tea shops than from places like Kung Fu Tea or Tutti Frutti that overcharge for lower quality

>>12876573
Boba itself is pretty boring. Popping bubbles and coconut jellies are way more enjoyable.

Honestly, the whole mix of flavors just don't appeal to me. And those pearls just taste absolutely terrible, as soon as I sip one, I spit them out

>>12876573
> Pretty fucking overrated to be honest
The bobba is meant for bullying. You're supposed to use the big straw to spit bobba at your inferiors.

Based flyover

>>12876573
The appearance bothers me enough to never try it. I don't want a drink that looks like it has some sort of flesh eating bacterial infection.

>>12876576
Anywhere outside Springfield, Idaho really.

>>12876641
Only flyovers still drink this bugman garbage

>>12876576
Go to a city with a lot of Asians and you'll find one easy, or go to the Asian part of wherever you live. You can even buy the shit online (it's all just powders, sans tapioca).

>>12876638
Based bullyposter.

>>12876573
I quite like slurping up the little balls and sucking on them desu

That's because you got the wrong flavor fag, get the honeydew or taro root flavor.

half sweet oolong milk tea with herbal jelly or get the fuck out, you hacks

>boba tea
It's bubble tea you fag.

>>12877104
Whatever you say colonizer.

>>12876573
It's a calorie bomb, but can also be rationalized as "just a tea". That's why bubble tea and Starbucks are so successful and my stepsister has a tire of flab around her neck.

>>12876573
right, I thought maybe I should sell gummy bears in a slushy to the Chinese

you buy milk tea for the bubbles anon, heres a local one i get all the time and they have seasonal bubbles all the time. the current one atm is carrot bubbles

>>12876576
anywhere with heaps of asians
like here in australia we have a pretty big chain dedicated to sugary chink drinks called cha-time

>calling for stupid japan forced culture
go to any fucking chinese takeout place and order a mango strawberry smoothy with tapioca balls

>>12878805
Not only is boba tea not from Japan, it only became really popular in Japan this year.

>>12876609
you know you can order it without the boba ball right?

>>12878844
>it only became really popular in Japan this year.
Really? I assumed that this was a trend that hit the entirety of Asia, and US for over 30 years now

>>12878002
I get milk tea for the milk tea. Raise your standards and grow up.

the quality of them can vary. I had one at a huge chinese grocery store that seemed like it tasted too good to be true. it had floral flavors in the tea. but there is a place near me and the tea kind of sucks.

>>12876573
Where did you go?

>>12878949
I'm not sure how long it's been available in Japan, but I only saw a handful of boba places that were never crowded over a period of 4 years. Then suddenly last year a bunch more popped up and they all had lines out the door from the afternoon on.
It was a shocking change. It won't last, either, but they're gonna ride the wave as much as they can I'm sure.

>>12876573
Boba is a euphemism for tits in chinese
"Everyone loves boba" --my ABC friend

>>12879187
>I'm not sure how long it's been available in Japan, but I only saw a handful of boba places that were never crowded over a period of 4 years. Then suddenly last year a bunch more popped up and they all had lines out the door from the afternoon on.
It was a shocking change. It won't last, either, but they're gonna ride the wave as much as they can I'm sure.
Boba/bubble tea has been available in Japan almost as long as the rest of Asia.
Kind of ingrained in the society now.

>>12879191
Haha. On the east coast of the US, we had a Tex-Mex restaurant chain called Chi-Chis, which I've been told is also slang for titties.

>>12879373
>Chi-Chis
Been to one in Florida like 30 years ago

>>12876573
Why on earth would anyone want a drink filled with gelatinous orbs?
Looks like the discharge from an alien egg sac.
Hard pass.

>>12879878
those were like fake boba pearls made of plastic or something

>>12879930
cope

>>12879878
>However, what’s puzzling is that tapioca, guar gum and other ingredients typically used in tapioca balls in the U.S. would not show up on a CT scan. These ingredients aren't "radiopaque," meaning they don't show up on X-rays or CT scans, Felipez said. That's because these ingredients do not block the type of radiation used in X-rays. (Instead, they allow the radiation to pass through, and thus remain invisible on X-rays.)
>It's possible that another type of additive used in China was causing the tapioca balls to show up on the CT, she said. But it's unclear what kind of additive this would be.

>China
what more needs to be said

>>12878957
youre paying too much if youre just getting it for the milk tea. the only thing time consuming about making bubble tea is the bubbles. any real asian can tell you that. taiwan brands or bust

>>12876609
Get the jelly or the popping boba if you don't like the tapioca.

>>12876648
What do us real coasties prefer?

Im so addicted to these. HOly fuck

>>12876573

>be me
>in SoCal
>HORDES OF ASIANS
>see every one of them carry one of these things
Never tried it, what does it taste like?

>>12881982
They were serving them at the county fair this year in lightbulbs, damn liberals

>>12879958
medfag here: what that xray shows is profound constipation/ fecal impaction with anything, not necessarily boba; stool looks like ball shapes when i get compacted against the lining of the gut (haustra, if you want to google); i see these kind of xrays all the time in old people with shit diets and really poor gut motility, often with dehydration worsening the impaction; fake news/click bait

>>12881997
>holy shit he wasn't kidding

>>12876573
i like how it tastes but it is a bit overrated yeah

>>12876573

Nothing improves a drink like choking hazards.

>>12881677
Dishwater

>>12882384
If you choke on a Boba pearl, you deserve the death.

>>12876583
Really? I live in the middle of butt fuck nowhere and we have three places that offer them. One of them even has bubble waffles. Gotta say I personally love them especially the ones made with taro root

well there's a reason this shit didn't survived its hype after 2012

>>12881482
Homemade lemonade with raspberry popping boba is fucking delicious.

>>12882198
Why?

Vivi too with ginger milk, paying 6 dollar thqt shit .
3/10

>>12882508
but it did?

and i am perplexed

>>12882550
>Why reuse a cheap piece of glass that is otherwise completely useless instead of paying people for plastic cups?

Get taro flavor at 0% sweetness extra boba. Shits cash

>>12876576
They started selling them at a donut shop down the street from me