Tapioca is super fun to shoot at your friends and coworkers.
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mushroommunk@lemmy.today 5 weeks agoThe “bubbles” refers to the little edible tapioca balls at the bottom.
The name started as “bo ba”, the Chinese name for the tapioca pearls, and the west turned it into “bubble”. No idea what the original Chinese means, could just be bubble.
It’s often a sweeter milk tea (though pretty much anything goes these days)
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
The original chinese name before i was introduced to the english name is 珍珠奶茶(zhen zhu nai cha), literally translated as pearl milk tea. That’s around mid 2000s. Not sure which come first though, bubble or boba.