I Recommend Drinking Bubble Tea

Grab a drink with me. Let’s relieve ourselves and take a sip of this iconic brown sugar milk tea with boba. Boba is essentially made from tapioca starch and formed into bite sized spheres easy to nibble on. This will itch a part of your brain that you never thought you needed all this time. So delicious you could taste every ingredient that was used in the drink. The brown sugar embedded in the chewy boba pearls that was simmered for hours and hours enhanced the drink overall. As your mouth starts to fill up with boba with every sip, the flavor of the brown sugar just melts in your mouth like candy. The addictive part of the drink is constantly chewing the boba balls like it’s gum. So sugary yet so impactful from the overload of dopamine. As college students who depend on sugary drinks, drinking bubble tea will set us free from this never ending pain: weeks memorizing material, spending hours on assignments, and forcing ourselves to sit in 2 hour lectures. I often scarf down the cold drink waiting to escape and disappear from reality.

Made from Taiwan in the 1980s, Taiwanese immigrants brought this life changing drink into the United States and was then spread through other East Asian populations. With this beverage, I am allowed to sail into the pleasure of tasting the flavors from oceans apart. Bubble tea shops around my neighborhood have mastered every recipe, from refreshing fruit teas to milky drinks. While walking down the streets of Brooklyn, I am able to see a boba shop on every block filled with joyful customers waiting for their cold iced beverage. So calming and graceful it feels like it was a gift from god. I practically live there from getting a drink 3 times a week. Disregarding the absurd amount of sugar and calories in one drink itself, I always indulge in one for my sanity. I tend to build relationships with the workers. They fully memorize my usual order and prepare it in an instant knowing this is what gets me through the dreadful week. Poking the fat straw through the plastic seal was like a burst of pure bliss jumping at you. The need to save as much as you can but tempted to finish the whole thing. A hot and crispy popcorn chicken usually sold at the shop balanced out the sugar. It is the perfect snack to pair with a refreshing bubble tea after a long day of my stomach growling. Try it, you might like it.