/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Inscrutable Oriental wisdom.

One day someone put tapioca balls into tea.

The end

>>5291643
>implying the tapioca adds anything

>>5291643
I love bubble tea, it's just that up here in the fucking cold I can only stand drinking it for like 4-5 months a year.

Some genius needs to come up with a warm bubble tea drink.

idk but it's delicious

taro master race

>>5291654
i've had warm bubble tea, it's not as common but I can still find it at plenty of places

there are lots of asians where I live though so this might not be the case everywhere

>>5291644
why the fuck did this make me laugh so much

meh

Taiwanese Dumplings are the shit. And Mapo Tofu is fucking amazing.

That is all.

The Taiwanese? Come on OP, everyone knows Iroh invented bubble tea.

>>5291643
Is that you and your boyfriend?

>>5291643
I live in SF in the Outer Richmond.

There's a Purple Kow by me, and I get boba all the time.

I like asking for extra boba because I like the texture, and also it sticks well to things. So while I'm walking around, I shoot the boba at geese, buses, and feral cats.

I also practice my aim by shooting at stop signs.

I've gotten pretty good.

>>5291695

Probably the word balls and someone putting balls into something.

>>5291654
I've had warm bubble tea served at a taiwanese place. It was really delicious, the tapioca balls were warm and soft and subtly sweet.

>>5291771
The Purple Kow over at 38th and Balboa, right?

Here's a question for you: why is T Pumps at 20th and Irving so fucking crowded all the time? Is there something about the boba tea there that is legitimately better than all the other boba tea? I walk by that place and it seems like it's always more crowded than any other boba places, even though there's like 3 other places within 2 or 3 blocks.

>>5291789
Yeah. I mean the Purple Kow is crowded as fuck right after school gets out.

And no, I think it's because Asian kids tack themselves on to any line that seems to be long. Personally I find that place super sweet, a bit too much for my taste.

It's a vicious circle.

It's called boba tea you stupid fuck.

>>5291808
I think you mean Bubble Fett

I love bubble tea!

I remember in the last couple years or so there's more of this... poppers stuff in addition to pearls and jellies. Round things that are filled with some flavored juice, like lychee, yogurt, passionfruit, strawberry, etc. I also enjoy adding poppers if the place has any, but I get confused when I'm trying to pop poppers but instead I struggle with a pearl, or try to chew a pearl but I end up chewing at a popper. It makes drinking bubble tea more frustrating but I can't get enough of it.

Anyone in the 818 go to Bounce?
Shit load of asian kids late on weekends but the teas are good.

This stuff is easy to make. Just go to an Asian market or buy supplies online, I think I paid $7 overall for tapioca pearls and straws.

I usually make banana or honeydew milk teas.

Taiwan in the 80s was undergoing super fast industrialization, wasn't it?

Who cares it's the fucking shit. I can't find a bubble tea place near where I live anywhere. :\ nearest one is almost 30 minutes.

>>5291643

>bubble tea places everywhere in my city
>never seen anyone but asians in them
>if you go into one the asians stare at you like they've never seen a white person ever before

>>5291838
818 here,

I went to Bounce was like 5 years ago when I was still in school. The teas were hella sweet, didn't taste anything but the fucking sugar. Needless to say was not impressed.

>>5291643
This shit is so bad.

Like the drink part is great but the blandness and chewiness of the tapioca pearls is just bad.

>>5291654
im confused.
do you guys not have hot milk tea where you live?

I am surrounded by 6 bobba places, all whom serve slushies, teas, coffes with bobba in them.
I usually always get the hot milk tea with warm boba

>>5292199
I frequently go to Asian restaurants and grocers. I'm as white as the label gets. Since I don't have any social or mental disorders I don't make an ass of my self causing people to stare.

>>5291643
I friggen loved the lollicup we had in my crappy town and was depressed when it shut down. One day I looked online and found their wholesale page for the shops. Bought a ton of boba and boba straws really cheap.
>http://www.lollicupstore.com/

They just wanted a cool new way to poison American hipsters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/bubble-tea-tapioca-pearls-may-cause-cancer-study-claims_n_1856152.html

>local thai place starts to sell these
>me and my friends decide we should try it out sometime
>finally one day we decide to get some
>sounds good and get a bit hyped
>everybody sits down around a table
>start tasting
>this is pretty good actually
>it tastes really bland after a short while
>the "bubbles" or whatever are just a hassle
>what the fuck is this shit

I was really unimpressed but atleast we had a good time and laughed about it.

>>5291887
Yes, the government ended the martial law era and let people actually do things to make money. Amazing how that works, isn't it.

>>5292321
>poison
The problem cited in the article is contamination of the food with industrial chemicals, not the food itself.

>>5293314
i want to be a dick and put people put of buisness and fuck them over somehow cuz my buisness sucks and so should everybody elses i run across

>>5293373
also because i can get supported by my parents while i run a failing buisness that fails cuz i am to busy being up in everybody elses shit

>>5292418
Some places you can get these coconut things instead of the flavorless tapioca bubbles.

>>5293401
>flavorless tapioca bubbles.

Why can't white people into texture?

>>5293412
It's not culturally important to most European derive cultures.

>>5293412
Caucasian cuisine derives from the streamlining of many other nations foods, as a way of claiming ownership; to crudely-put they also put their mark on it by making it bland as to hide the origins a bit.


>Off the record, Chipotle threads abudnant now seem to make sense. It's not really mexican, it's americo.

>>5293412
Texture =/= taste, and taste is the more important of the two. Why would I want to eat something that tastes like nothing? It's a waste of calories.

Never had boba tea, love Thai Tea though.

>>5293429
>Texture =/= taste,

Obviously.

>and taste is the more important of the two

And that's what I'm asking about. Why? If food was simply about calories then none of the other details would matter--taste, color, texture, smell, etc. However you appreciate and enjoy many flavors. I'm assuming you also enjoy certain appearances and smells in food too. Why not appreciate texture as well?

>Girlfriend's dad is the owner of a Boba/Japanese restaurant
>Get to drink free boba a lot. (Among other stuff)

It's practically in my blood now. I love it

The problem with this shit is that it's overpriced. Otherwise it's still just meh

>>5291643

>ruin perfectly good flavoured milk with flavourless jellyballs of tapioca