/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16462344
Its japanese and its like anime

>ANIMEANIMEANIMEANIMEANIME OUT OF NOWHERE

>>16462344
I just like balls in my mouth

>>16462355
It's taiwanese moron

>>16462360
>>16462355
It's more of a mainlander drink. The pearls help you savour the drink since they give you a break to chew.

>>16462344
"It's like sweet little tumors in my mouth"
you don't know how much I long for another show entirely making fun of millennials and everything they like.

>>16462344
I don't think anybody obsesses over them. They've been everywhere for 20 years. They're just an available option that people get.

>>16462381
Please understand, OP is a flyover who just got to try them.

>>16462344
i like bubble tea but the tapiocas really don't add anything of value

>>16462399
I agree. I usually order without.

>>16462344
What kind of tea do they use for that? Looks milky

>>16462344
Basically some chinks brought it over to the west 2 or 3 years ago and hipster bugmen realized they'd look cool and quirky if a picture of tea with balls in it was on their instagram page so it got popular

>>16462498
I didn't know pictures with boba teas was a social media trend, but sounds exactly zero percent different than six years ago when every single pic had a Starbucks cup in it.

>>16462498
it's been around in the west quite a bit longer than 2-3 years, try 15-20

>>16462355
It's Korean actually

>>16462516
I definitely remember regularly getting boba tea in fucking 2002 lmao

>>16462531
I ain't ever seen it until last year

>>16462355
but its chinese
inb4 i was only pretending to be retarded

why does this board got so many yuppies on it?

>>16462344
The balls are the worst part of t he drink. I fucking hate solids in my drink, but if I ask for a boba with the balls I will get laughed out of the place.

>>16462544
defo been around but twenty years is a stretch, he's probably an Asian dude

>>16462541
what did you say bobba?!

>>16462568
>he's probably an Asian dude
i thought they stopped making those because all the defected ones

I never saw someone who drank this regularly who wasn't from either California or New York, it's coastie food

Why do people put fucking tribal culture conditions on food. I fucking love this stuff. So faggoty to care what is fashionable or not cool enough. Its food. Eat it if you like it.

>>16462574
>reads in bootsy collins' voice
actually chuckled out loud

>>16462544
Talking like that I'm not surprised, Jethro

>>16462344
I enjoy it occasionally, but it's not my favorite either.
If I want to drink something sweet, my favorite has to be cafe sua da

>>16462679
No real person does, new stories just pick up on some twitter post and blow it out of proportion. Its like how the media was covering all the "racism" following englands defeat but it was like 6 posts on twitter from anonymous accounts.

>>16462355
But it's Indonesian.

I didn't like it 15 years ago and I still don't like it now that's it's way popular again. When I'm drinking something I want to drink it. I don't want to chew on shit.

>>16462344
does anyone just go out exclusively to order one of these drinks?

i figured it was more of a dessert drink to have when you go to a Pho restaurant or something similar. cause it's not necessarily available everywhere. at least in my area.

>>16462344
My favorite is a taro smoothie with blueberry popping balls. Yum. Tastes like cereal milk

>>16462344
>Why do urbanites obsess so hard over this shit?
Because it's full of sugar.
But it's "not bad for you" because it's mostly milk and tea according to them.

>>16462393
I live in Ohio and I remember a friend introducing me to bubbletea back in like 2001 after I moved to Columbus.

>>16462456
I don't think there's really any default tea for bubble tea. But the most common is black tea and green tea.
The milk is usually sweetened condensed milk, but some places use evaporated milk or milk powder instead.

>>16462544
That's because you don't have friends.

>>16462565
No you won't

>>16463406
Yeah. It's the same as when people go out to a coffee shop.

>>16463661
i see. well it is pretty tasty so i get the appeal. i could see myself stopping for one occasionally if a tea place were on the way during a trip.

Avocado, Lavender, or Taro

Best flavors.

>>16462544
in germany they were a thing like 8 years ago
shops open up everyone tries them
everyone realizes its nothing special
shops close down again
2 years later it repeats

>>16462378
bruh you're a fucking fag for watching this show

>>16462544
because you live in a bumfuck nowhere or are a loser, got it

>>16462344
I just like it for the milk tea.

>>16462544
I remember drinking this shit in 2008

>>16465096
you must be underage. I remember drinking this shit in 2002

>>16465013
>bruh
millennials can't even speak without sounding like pozzed retards

>>16462344
What I don't understand is why tapioca tea is popular and hip bud tapioca pudding is entirely ignored or treated as boomerfood

Tapioca pudding is actually amazing

>>16462355
Vietnamese, actually.

>>16466364
>popular and hip
There never is, nor has there ever been, logic to this.

>>16466364
I love tapioca pudding

>>16466351
and you watch cringe

>>16466826
It isn't my fault that millennials aren't self aware enough to realize that making a show that's supposed to get people to sympathize with them will only end up mocking them.

>>16462344
I tried making this at home and it sucked. I don't get the the appeal of cold tea & milk. Perhaps coffee is a better option

>>16465013
>bruh
Retarded zoomer (redundant) detected.

>>16462344
>urbanites
You mean Taiwanese people?
What the fuck is wrong with this stupid board.

>>16462541
FWIW literally nobody calls it boba except for western born "Chinese" people and people who want to be accepted by western born "Chinese" people. Call it bubble tea, milk tea, or naicha.

You're surprised a fat (milk) and sugar drink is popular?

>>16468347
Not everyone lives in Taiwan, anon.

>>16468418
citation needed

>>16468418
When you think "people who love bubble tea", you don't think "uhhhhh generic people who live in a city", do you? You think of Taiwanese people and East Asians in general. Those are the niggers who always go into bubble tea shops, whether you're in China or Europe.

The tapioca doesn't add much to the milk tea, but I find with the smoothies it adds a lot. Mango smoothie with tapioca pearls and coconut jelly is good shit.

>>16468445
I think of faggot hipsters, basic bitches, and westernized asians. The westernized asians fall under the first two as well, so it’s a bit redundant.

>>16468537
Well get your head out of your arse because it's 90% Mainland Chinese students.

>>16468620
Maybe in western canada.

>>16468640
How about the entirety of Europe you stupid nigger

>>16468670
Is yurop being invaded by the chinese now?

>>16462344
Chinese people go nuts for this and the fact that each cup costs literally $6+ dollars for milky tea is proof enough to me that we're all fucked because the kind of cash the Chinese throw around would make you and I blush.

>>16468767
They got an extremely large middle class after the recent economic boon and the chinese have never been money smart.
basically a people of novau riche but not that wealthy.

>>16468734
Chinese students? Yeah. It's a guaranteed ticket to a good life if you have a British or to a lesser extent Continental university degree.

>>16462355
it's malaysian you retard

>>16462344
It's basically just milk tea with chewy candy

>>16462344
I love it as an Asian guy

>>16466364
because people drink it with spicy popcorn chicken. It's a good combination to cool your tastebuds

Cuckifornian city cuck hipster libtard food. Just like IPAs and avocados

>>16462574
POOLS CLOSED

>>16462344
>try it out once
>drink like normal
>almost choke on 20 balls

Boba is to gentrified Asians what Starbucks is to middle class whites

Back when I was in high school in 2012 all the asian girls were nuts over this shit every day was bubble tea bubble tea was all they lived for all you heard was going out for bubble tea

A lot of them were fob or first gen asians too btw

>>16462373
kek no its from the country of Taiwan

>>16469652
Sounds like a normal sunday for you

>>16462344
like half the places i've tried are terrible at it and fuck up the pearls, that's probably what happened to you. pearls are the best part

>>16462344
The people who obsess most over this are Asian American girls

>>16470057
>country

>>16470502
As well as Asian-<x>ian wannabes.

i like bubble tea

>>16462344
Actual asian here
don't understand how you guys made it into some kind of zoomer shit
it's just a sweet treat, even old fucks with flip flops would drink them, well not specifically bubble milk tea, but they would get something else from the shop

>>16462344
Apparently, pearls are easy to make, but people only want the ones imported from the RoC. Coronavirus lead to a shipping backup, so the pearls were impossible to get for a while, and a bunch of bubble tea shops closed down.
Why not just make them locally?

>>16471379
They do in Australia. I'm not sure I believe they don't in USA or wherever you are.

>>16471246
>even old fucks drink it
>just kidding
huh?

>>16471588
these shops don't just sell bubble tea, they sell a plethora of tea and juices
the bubble itself is optional too if you don't like chewing on shit, which old people don't like since they have shit teeth

It makes me feel cool lol idk I just like balls in my mouth balls in my mouth

What are the balls? Are they edible?

>>16462344
Do you actually gargle on the balls or is it just my sister who does that

>>16471969
tapioca, completely edible

>>16462355
But it's Laotian

>>16462344
I sipped on a glass of bubble tea during passover and wept thinking about my grandparents who were gassed in the concentration camps run by the Germans.

Do Republicans of China really?

>>16462344
I'm more of a lemon honey tea kind of guy anyway

>>16462355
>>16462361
>>16462373
>>16462534
>>16466790
same sing

I always confuse this with the ones that are like smoothies with the little bubbles that pop that got juice in them. Those shits are delicious. These solid balls aren't my thing

>>16462344
Girls can order it to replace meals, it's the new starbucks latte.

>>16470502
They're called ABGs you uncultured fuck. And idk where you live but they're mostly consumed by white girls around here.