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

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. My earliest memory of bubble tea is trying it for the first time on a family trip to Shanghai; I was seven ...

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 ...

As much a textural marvel as a refreshing drink, bubble tea is one of Taiwan’s most renowned cultural exports. The eponymous ‘bubbles’ aren’t the result of carbonation, but a pile of chewy, sweet, ...

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 ...

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 ...