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 ...

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 ...

My earliest memory of bubble tea is trying it for the first time on a family trip to Shanghai; I was 7 or 8, and I was so obsessed with my new discovery that I couldn’t stop prattling on and on, ...

The bubble tea market has been growing rapidly—and that comes as no surprise. These cold, sweet beverages with chewy tapioca ...

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 ...

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 ...

While bubble tea (also known as boba) originated in Taiwan during the late 1980s, the crave-able drink has become a serious crowd-pleaser in many countries, the U.S. included. And what’s not to love?