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If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. My earliest memory of bubble tea is trying it for the first time on a family trip to Shanghai; I was seven ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Chun Shui Tang teahouse in central Taiwan’s Taichung City, the perfect cup of bubble tea is boiled down to a science. A tea barista fills a tall glass with black tapioca pearls 2 inches from the ...

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 ...