Bubble Tea
 

Bubble Tea

I had it when I was in Taipei, and needless to say I found it interesting, good, although the gummy balls in there caught me by surprise.

Well my wife saw "committed" on NBC where they showed it, and now she is craving it, and she has never had it :rolleyes: :p

Any national chains that offer it?

Learn to make it yourself

http://www.bubbleteasupply.com/index...e=recipes.html

(of course they will sell you the pearls, as will about a million other places on line)

In New York it's sold at a ton of delis, and locally outside the city we've seen it at chineese restaurants.

There's a Bubble Tea Cafe in Houston. Lots of places offer it around here, but I'm guessing Houston might be more convenient for you.

Also look for it being called "boba"

I am also a bubbletea addict !
 

I'm new to FT.. I've been browsing the forum for several days now..and this is my first post. I hope I can help.

I fly to Austin pretty often, and each time I always stopped at a bubbletea place called Coco's Cafe. They have good selection of flavors.

And in Houston, there are probably more than 20 places that sell this type of drink. Go to the new Chinatown ( Bellaire Blvd ), and you will find plenty of places. The one I usually go to is located in the Hongkong City Mall.

I've also tried bubbleteas in NYC, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Seattle, LV, LA, SF, and back home in Indonesia.
They're all good! ^

Btw it's also called "Pearl milk tea", "tapioca ball drink", "boba drink"

Here's some other locations that I found on the net:
http://www.geocities.com/kananelj/cafe.html

Locally in SoCal (Irvine), we have the Tea Station & Tapioca Express. My daughter is addicted, so I make that run once a week or so. I like boba green milk tea. You've got to be careful, though - I've had HORRIBLE bobas in NYC & from 2 places in Costa Mesa - if it's been sitting around & they don't have a high boba turnover, it can be mushy & wierd. Looking forward to Oahu next week where they do it really good with great flavors!

Welcome to FT!
Anyway, depends on what quality of "boba" you want-there is a national chain, mainly in California but also on east coast, called Lollicup, but I think their artificial powder and other ingredients aren't too good for you. Visit Chinatowns or busy pedestrian areas (such as near colleges) to find such places. Sometimes they can be found in tea places (like in Boston & Cambridge there are a lot) or with smoothie stores.

All around NYC
 

Tons of places in NYC, both within Chinatown, and outside of it... Some good coffee places (GOOD, so not Starbucks) have it in the city, as well.

It IS good, isn't it? Had it in Thailand for the first time - fell in love with it.

Methinks the non-Texans do not realize that Las Vegas is actually closer to El Paso than Houston, TX is... in any case, I'll chime in with there are a bunch of them in Dallas ;), pretty much any Asian-owned coffeehouse will have it.

You are right ;)

ELP-LAS 730 miles
ELP-IAH 760 miles

I gotta take my wife somewhere they sell it, so she can try it

Guilty as charged. :) But I was right in saying that Houston is closer to El Paso than the San Francisco Bay Area is.

You can easily find Boba Tea in Vietnamese neighborhoods in Orange County, CA and in Northern Virginia.

A good place for BOBA in California
 

If you travel to CA very often or you live in CA, there is a place you might want to try out sometimes. The store name is call "Tea Station", they offer over 100 selection of ice/hot drinks. All drinks you can add BOBA into it. I try it once, they did it good. Tea Station totally having 8 stores in Northern and Southern CA, besides those 8, they have 1 store at Las Vegas call "Tea Planet". The friend who took me to the store told me, that Tea Station is the pioneer who introduce BoBa Milk Tea and all different kind tea drinks to CA even earlier then Lollipcup and Tapioca Express. I don't know if it is true thou??

Jfe,
I have a kit I can send to you. PM me an address, maybe you can send me some of that Mex Hot Choc or a bottle of Vanilla :D
Jon

You got PM :)