Double Bubble

Last time on Name This Food! I asked you what this was...

Well, ladies and gents, the correct answer was Bubble Tea.

I'm sure some of you know what bubble tea is - my friend Laura from the USA sure did, and she correctly identified same.

But what is bubble tea, apart from delicious? Even I'm a little foggy on the details.

Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, or simply boba)  is a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Tainan and Taichung in the 1980s. Recipes contain tea of some kind, flavors of milk, as well as sugar (optional). Toppings, such as chewy tapioca balls (also known as pearls, or boba), popping boba, fruit jelly, grass jelly, agar jelly, and puddings are often added. Ice-blended versions are frozen and put into a blender, resulting in a slushy consistency. There are many varieties of the drink with a wide range of flavors. The two most popular varieties are black pearl milk tea and green pearl milk tea. 

Has that cleared things up for you? OK, maybe not. Just go try some. If you Google it you'll be presented with local vendors and trust me, it's great.

Now then - Name This Food!