Bubble tea

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Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, boba tea, or boba; Chinese: 珍珠奶茶; pinyin: zhēnzhū nǎichá, 波霸奶茶; bōbà nǎichá) is a tea-based drink most often containing chewy tapioca pearls, milk, and flavoring. It originated in Taiwan in the 1980s and spread to other countries where there is a large East Asian diaspora population. Bubble tea is most commonly made with tapioca pearls (also known as "boba" or "balls"), but it can be made with other toppings as well, such as grass jelly, aloe vera, red bean, and popping boba. It has many varieties and flavors, but the two most popular varieties are pearl black milk tea and pearl green milk tea ("pearl" for the tapioca balls at the bottom). Some of the largest global bubble tea chains include Chatime, CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice, Gong Cha, and Xing Fu Tang. Two Taiwanese tea rooms, Chun Shui Tang in Taichung, and Hanlin Tea Room in Tainan, claim the invention of bubble tea in 1987 and 1986 respectively; litigation between...

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