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Bubble tea?

  • 25-08-2011 8:02pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 4


    I was pondering whether I should post this in the "Coffee & Tea" section of the board but it's not the regular tea so I'll just do away with it here.

    So I recently got back from a trip to the west and I have been craving bubble/boba tea badly. Does anyone know if there is anywhere where I can find bubble tea? And if not sold in places, how to make one?

    Here's a picture:
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    With tapioca and everything!

    Pleeeease let there be bubble tea.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    If you want to make your own there's a recipe here: (you have to scroll down) http://www.americancupcakeinlondon.com/2011/04/bubble-tea-fever-hits-london.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭tfak85


    I know this is a stupid question but, are you supposed to ingest the bubbles?!

    I got a bubble tea in NYC this summer and while the flavour was nice, I got totally freaked when one of the bubbles traveled up the straw!

    The fruity ones with the multi coloured bubbles look great, I think I may even make some myself!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Lol, yes! They're just like eating jellies (though perhaps not quite as tasty). I do find it a bit odd having to chew a drink though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4 Harami


    ah so there's nowhere that makes them here at all? :/ so depressing haha

    i will try the tips in that link though. thank you, emeralstar.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    There could be somewhere in Dublin, I don't know. Did you Google it?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭flikflak


    You can get the `bubbles` for it in the Asian stores. I got some when I got back from Taiwan and made my own.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    Love Bubble Tea :p

    You can buy the ingredients on Amazon and then just make your own.


  • Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭supersheeps


    Apparently Harvey Nichols in Dundrum will be doing these...sounds awful, sorry!
    /http://www.dundrum.ie/events/bubble-tea-is-coming-to-harvey-nichols/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Gauge


    For 2 days only :( BOO. I love this stuff, even the chewy tapioca balls! Never been able to get it in Ireland though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    But it's just cold (usually), flavoured tea. Make some, buy some tapioca balls, throw 'em in, et voila!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Gauge


    Oh, I've been planning to alright, I eye up the pretty tapioca pearls every time I go to the Asian supermarket! The silly thing is I can't find the massive straws which of course are mandatory for the full bubble tea experience :D maybe they're in the Asian supermarket too, must take a closer look next time I'm there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    You could hunt for them online, I guess. Found the below on the Amazon US site but you may well find another source.

    http://www.amazon.com/Bubble-Tea-Fat-Straw-pcs/dp/B0001N7RJS


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭foodaholic


    Harvey Nics doing bubble tea, heres the link:
    http://www.anygivenfood.com/bubbleology-pops-up-at-harvey-nichols/


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 dollylolly


    in Georges Street Arcade in Dublin! FINALLY someone spotted a gap in the market! :DInterested to see what flavour combinations they do as I've really had a hankering for a tarro milk tea..mmm I've been watching progress on the shop for the past week and it looks really slick. Let the Irish Bubble Tea revolution begin:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4 Harami


    Oh wow FINALLY. Thanks so much, definitely going to have a gander there sometime soon. :) I love taro tea too so I hope they make that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭tfak85


    I'll be interested to see what this place is like, hopefully reasonably priced.. I've only had bubble tea a couple of times, including once when I made it myself.. I can't help but be freaked out by the bubbles, I don't like the texture one bit!!

    No doubt I will go and try it out again though!


  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Lt. Palumbo


    grand opening tonight in George's Arcade, I may have to check it out tomorrow


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    dafuq is bubble tea


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,734 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Threads merged.

    tHB


  • Registered Users Posts: 2 dollylolly


    saw Amy Humberman and Brian O Driscoll in Bubblicity today in Georges Street Arcade! I also had a taro boba tea and it was just like at home!!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    Seriously?! As soon as I move out of Dublin they open up a bubble tea cafe? I guess Yogism has shown that quirky food stuffs have a niche in the George's St arcade.


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