What's in it
It starts with a tea base, we use our gourmet loose leaf teas. Then we add sweeteners and flavors.If it's a Milk Tea, a creamy component is added, such as milk, almond milk,or non-dairy creamers. Clear Teas are just that... Clear, and don't have a cream added. Once the ingredients are all together, the drink gets shaken real good! This makes the drink nice and frothy, which looks like bubbles on top... hence the name bubble tea. The fun of bubble tea comes from the small chewy tapioca pearls, aka: boba, we add a hefty scoop at the bottom of each drink, adding a chewy contrast to the sweetness and texture of the drink.There are endless variations, everything from strawberry, taro, chocolate, almond, lavender, coffee and tea can be used to flavor the drink. Some of the versions are thin, sweetened tea versions while others are rich and thick.
History of the drink
Unlike many other beverages, this drink is a recent invention, first created in the 1980s in Taiwan. One day, a Taiwanese tea stand had the bright idea of adding tapioca pearls to their frothy tea drinks to create imaginative and tasty beverages. Because these drinks had bubbles at the top (the froth) and at the bottom (the pearls), they became known as bubble tea. Today, Bubble Tea is "the drink" in Asia and growing popularity around the globe.
