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It is said to have originated in Taichung, Taiwan in 1983, by a Taiwanese teashop owner named Liu Han-Chieh (劉漢介), who experimented with cold milk tea by adding fruit, syrup, candied yams and, finally, tapioca balls. Although the drink was not so popular at first, publicity from a Japanese television show made businessmen take notice and it quickly became well known throughout Asia in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, bubble tea began to become popular in the United States, even outside the overseas Asian community.
Boba, a Cantonese slangSlang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. Slang is a type of sociolect aimed at excluding certain people from the conversation., literally means the "dominatrix of breastmilk to feed infants. The term breasts can refer to the upper ventral region of the human torso. Alternatively the term is used for each of two parts of that, especially for women: the breasts are parts of the female human body that contain the organs thas", connoting the image of a busty woman. "Bo" (波) is a slang for the breast which refers to the milk.
In the name "pearl milk tea," the " pearlFor other things called "pearl", see pearl (disambiguation). Japanese pearl diver A pearl is a hard, rounded object produced by certain mollusks, primarily oysters, and which is cultivated or harvested for jewellery. Pearls are formed inside the shell ofs" refers to the black gummy balls made of tapioca which sit in the mixture of sweetened ice tea and milk and possibly other flavorings.
The balls are generally about 1 cm in diameter and are sucked through a wide straw along with the drink, providing something to chew on between sips. In many cases, when ordering at the counter or a sit-down restaurant, customers are given the option whether they want "boba" or "pearl" in their beverages. Both terms refer to the tapioca balls.
The recipes for boba tea vary and so does the taste, but usually flavouring is added to hot black or green tea which is then shaken in a martini shaker with ice until chilled. Aficionados shop around for their favorite vendors. Tapioca pearls are primarily made from tapioca starch which can be found from bitter-cassava plants. The pearls are then heated with caramel into a thick mixture paste. The paste is then passed through a wet sieve to create different pearl sizes.
Instead of eating the chewy balls, some adolescents like to blow them out from the straw to shoot at targets or at each other.
The tea often accompanies chicken steak (雞排), also a popular snack in Taiwan.
Pearl milk tea usually uses large pearls of the size 7 millimeters or above, since smaller pearls are not as good for chewing. In southern Taiwan, most pearl milk tea use the name "boba milk tea", and the name "pearl milk tea" is used mostly for small sized pearls(much smaller than 1cm in diameter).
Pearl milk tea has now spread internationally, mainly through overseas Chinese communitiesAlternative meanings: Chinatown (disambiguation North America is in San Francisco, California, where signs, storefronts, proprieters, and even lamp posts bring the culture of China to the United States. Chinatown is an urban region containing a large popu. It is also known under a number of other names, including:
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