On balls in the mouth

[beetiger]

I’m having a minor obsession with bubble tea, right now. Sweet and chewy and creamy and complicated and silly-looking, requiring inexpensive but clearly specialized equipment to do it right. I haven’t been able to find someone in Westchester making it, though, and I feel silly taking a trip into Manhattan for, well, a soft drink. I liked Orbitz too, in its day. Somewhere in my files I have a food-scientisty formulation sheet for making roughly that.

However, I don’t like caviar at all. I especially don’t like salmon roe, which to a first approximation looks quite a bit like the tapioca bits in bubble tea. But it’s not chewy, it’s squirty. And you don’t eat it with a straw.

Personal taste is a quirky thing.

Comments

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

I hate salmon roe too, for the same reasons, but I love flying fish roe. They're tiny and crunchy and bubbly and so orange, and don't forget the look on your friends' faces when you tell them what the stuff is on the California-maki they just ate.

I like tapioca products in general -- I think I developed a taste when I thought I was gluten-intolerant and went on a wheat-free diet -- but I haven't quite been able to get into bubble tea, somehow. I love it on principle. I would've liked Orbitz if the flavors weren't so darned weird. What I really want to find is a place that does some of the more authentic Thai desserts, like the pink tapioca-and-agar jellies our campus Thai association used to serve at events. I don't know what possesses restaurants to serve mango sticky rice and ginger ice cream, when Thai desserts are traditional, simple, and so good...

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I would've liked Orbitz if the flavors weren't so darned weird.

*blink*

*blink*

This, coming from a person whose most famous form is a lava lamp shaped like a vixen?

I never thought that we'd find the end of your range of 'weird', hon. Do I dare take you to 'The Sweet Booth' in Oakland, where they serve things like 'Jar Jar Supreme' and about a hundred different kinds of tapioca drinks?

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, this is exactly how I feel too -- well, about fish roes. Salmon roe has just never done it for me, but the flying fish is... well, 'murr' is the best word I have for it. The taste is just salty enough, and the texture is absolutely perfect. I'm a big bubble tea fan myself, too, although I tend to like the slightly less tea-heavy versions.