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

[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.