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

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Boba tea good! (You'de never guess that from the bubble tea community on LJ I belong to, woulcha?).
Tea Ren has decent mail order supplies and I've had all their flavors. They are, except for ones I don't like the taste of anyhow like green bean, good. I am tempted to get the green apple and peach drink powders just to drink without boba.
The local asian supermarket has freezer section individual boba tea kits, and HYOOG! 8 inch square blocks of (it looks like precooked) tapioca balls that are shelf stable. The HYOOG! block isn't very practical, but if you ever want one for a party - let Paka and I know and we can ship one out to ya.