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]

It CAN be heavenly. It can be bland and overly sweet. It is a commestible and subject to the whims of assembly. Good bobba is a dark medium brown, with a firm bite that gets almost chewy in the center and in no way slimey or crunchy. The tapioca is very permeable (as I accidently found out when diluting my drink with apple soda, carbonation hurts!), so it soaks up the flavors.
My personal opinion is that green tea with taro is a good first bubble drink. Exotic but approachable, the marshmallowy sweet taro flavor combines well with the caramelish tapioca balls, balanced by the delicate astringency of the green tea. And it is (at least it should be) a pretty lavender color, which makes the bubbles look black in contrast.

umm not that I am opinionated or anything.
*blushes*