Invented in Taichung, Taiwan in the 1980s, bubble tea is a tea-based beverage shaken or mixed with fruit or milk. Bubbles are combined with tapioca balls, also known as pearls or boba, so the drink is often also called boba milk tea, boba tea, tapioca tea, pearl tea or bubble drink. Over the decades, a wide range of ingredients have been incorporated into the production, resulting in many varieties of bubble tea. Some recipes replace milk with cream, ice cream, or soy milk and flavor it with chocolate, coffee, ginger, caramel, rose, or lavender. Others use black tea or green jasmine tea mixed with fresh fruit such as strawberry, apple, mango, avocado, banana, coconut, pineapple, kiwi or peach. However, the most popular varieties are tapioca milk tea and tapioca green milk tea. Bubble tea is not only a drink but also an interactive game, because you never know which sip will be liquid tea and which will yield a sticky and sweet tapioca ball from the giant straw that is an integral part ...