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

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

You know, on a purely philosophical level, I really want to love tapioca drinks. It's got round stuff in it, and I like round stuff. I like Tapioca pudding.

But I had an oriental drink with 'dragon pearls' in it one time when I was in California, and I just coulden't stop thinking about boogers.

(PS - I forgot to add your name to my 'frequent viewing' filter. And I miss stuff like this! Sigh.)