Shipping delays are keeping some tea shops from getting the ingredients needed to make bubble tea, marking the latest pandemic-caused shortage. Bubble tea is a popular Taiwanese milk tea drink that ...

When bubble tea was first introduced to the West, you could get it only in cheery mom-and-pop shops in big-city Chinatowns and Koreatowns. While Asians and Asian Americans have been drinking bubble ...

Consumer Reports tested pearls from several major bubble tea brands, highlighting potential risks as the U.S. bubble tea market is projected to reach nearly $900 million in sales by 2032. Stacey ...

As much a textural marvel as a refreshing drink, bubble tea is one of Taiwan’s most renowned cultural exports. The eponymous ‘bubbles’ aren’t the result of carbonation, but a pile of chewy, sweet, ...

In June 2019, an X-ray image supposedly showing hundreds of bubble tea pearls in a 14-year-old girl started circulating on social media: Bubble tea, also known as boba, is a Taiwanese tea-based drink ...

Bubble tea is everywhere. In plenty of downtown areas, it’s hard to miss people walking about carrying cups of the beverage, sipping through extra-wide straws designed to suck up the boba—the chewy ...

Slowly but surely, New York City’s boba scene keeps growing. The craze over tapioca balls bobbing in various tea-based drinks, also called bubble tea, started in Taiwan and various shops have been a ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. In the 2013 music video “Bobalife” by the Fung Brothers, the rhythms and motifs of the eponymous “boba life ...