Did you liked " boba / bubble tea."

Bubble tee appears to be the latest fad spreading like wildfire on the high streets ..

But I have trouble understanding why anyone would like this beverage with sunken tapioca "pearls"  to sip balls with wide-gauge colorful straws.

Tapioca is predominantly carbohydrate/ globular gelatin balls, Well there is as desi Connection as well, its our very own sābūdānā .Interestingly in Falooda the same base is used.

In some ways, bubble tea was quintessential Asian fad started in a Taiwan. Although not trademarked, two shops claim to be the creators of bubble tea.

One is Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung, where Liu Han Chie experimented with cold milk tea by adding fruit, syrup, candied yams, and tapioca balls in the early 1980s.

An alternative origin is the Hanlin Teahouse in Tainan, owned by Tu Tsong He Hanlin.

He made tea using traditional white fenyuan, or tapioca "pearl" which later changed to the black version that is seen most today.

Will bubble tea be the next sushi, like many of the Asian fads getting globalised !