Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, or boba tea or boba; Chinese: ; pinyin: zhnzh nichá, ; bbà nichá; pàopào chá) is a tea-based drink that first appeared in Taiwan in the early 1980s. It's usually served with tea and chewy tapioca balls ("boba" or "pearls"), although it can also be made with different toppings.
Bubble tea comes in a wide range of tastes and variations, but the two most popular are black pearl milk tea and green pearl milk tea ("pearl" signifies the tapioca balls at the bottom).
Teas without milk and milk teas are the two types of bubble teas. The foundation for both variations is either black, green, or oolong tea. Condensed milk, powdered milk, almond milk, soy milk, coconut milk, 2 percent milk, skim milk, or fresh milk are common ingredients in milk teas.
A mixture of hot Taiwanese black tea, tapioca pearls (Chinese: pinyin: fn yuán; Peh-e-j: hn-în), condensed milk, and syrup (Chinese: pinyin: táng jing) or honey made the oldest known bubble tea drink. Nowadays, most bubble tea is served cold.
The starch of the cassava, a tropical shrub noted for its starchy roots[6] that was introduced to Taiwan from South America during Japanese colonial control, was used to manufacture the tapioca pearls that make bubble tea so unique. These were quickly supplanted by larger pearls (Chinese: /; pinyin: b bà/hi zhn zh).
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