in the 1980s. It consists of three elements that were already popular in Taiwan at the time—sweet milk tea, shaved ice, and tapioca pearls in sweet pudding—and as the story goes, one food-stall owner cleverly thought to combine them, to enormous success. What resulted was an intensely refreshing, massively popular drink.
The drink's name,"boba," refers to the sweet, chewy pearls themselves, which are made of refined tapioca starch that comes from the root of the cassava plant. To make the bubbles, tapioca starch is combined with brown sugar, partially cooked, and formed into a dark-colored, very sticky dough. The dough then gets rolled out into 1/4-inch spheres and fully dried before being sold commercially. To revive these dried balls and ready them for boba tea, they are braised in a water–sugar syrup until soft and tender, and then left to cool in their syrup.
The pearls are added to a tall glass, and on top of them goes a drink of some sort. Typically, this is sweetened black tea with milk that's also flavored with syrup—anything from taro to chocolate to honeydew toHowever, clear, fruity teas, made with green tea, jasmine tea, or even rooibos bases, and flavored with fruit syrup of all sorts, have grown to become more popular drinks that accompany boba. So has sweetened coffee with milk, and frozen, milkshake-like slushies of all sorts.
After the bubbles and the tea have come together, the drink is rounded out with a whole lot of ice, to keep it especially cool and refreshing .Luckily for all of us, boba made its way through Southeast Asia from Taiwan, and has now become extremely popular in the U.S., the U.K., and beyond.
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