Bubble Tea Both Weird and Wonderful

Bubble Tea Strange New Tea Drink its Half Drink And Half Dessert Have You Tried it Yet ?

Weary of the latest fad coffees? trendy herbal teas and ice cream concoctions well maybe your in luck as something very different is hitting the streets It’s bubble tea. A little odd to look at I admit the first time you see it looks like the drinker is attempting to slurp frog spawn through a vividly colored liquid this bizarre drink also goes by the names boba, pearl tea, milk tea, or boba tea. It’s more like a dessert or a snack than a drink, it’s definitely unique experience; traditional bubble tea was a milky honey sweetened tea drink that masked a layer of chewy tapioca balls at the bottom of the glass served either hot or iced is as far a departure from the plain-looking tea you are familiar with. As well as the original it is available in every flavor you can think of, try it you might like it

Bubble tea in its original form was an import from Taiwan; traditional bubble tea is a honey sweetened milky tea drink that covers a layer of gummy tapioca balls that lie at the bottom of the cup served either hot or over ice, is so unlike tea the way we ordinarily see it, its hard to believe its tea at all. And in fact some bubble teas now are not made with real tea. Though traditionally all were made with a real tea base Bubble tea has evolved in that many do not even contain tea they are made from an extensive range of flavoring powders, and syrups in a wide variety of flavors and colors, you can even buy bubble tea kits to make the drink at home the only thing you then have to do is master the skill of cooking the tapioca pearls for bubble tea in your own kitchen which sometimes for some, is a challenge as the cooking of tapioca to exactly the right degree of chewiness for the bubble tea is an art form all to itself.

Ever Heard Of Blooming Tea

What is Blooming tea? basically blooming tea is a small hard dried ball of tea leaves (about the size of a large marble) inside of which are dried flowers the decorative or flowering or blossoming tea bundles as these are all names used interchangeably for blooming tea have been sewn together with either cotton or silk threads. When these tea balls are immersed in near boiling water the dried flowers swell and expand breaking free from their little tea leaf jail cells to reveal in most cases a beautiful miniature floral display in your teapot. Although any kind of tea can be used and is used to form these tea balls most commonly it is found that green tea is used. There is controversy over how old tea in this form actually is; some believe it is an ancient tea art dating back centuries while others believe it was invented just to be introduced as a new product the Chinese Tea houses could market to the western world.

Whether you believe flowering or blooming tea to be a new tea invention introduced only a few years ago or you choose to believe the tea legends and folklore stories that many blooming tea bundles come packaged with encouraging us to believe it is of more ancient origin dating back many centuries. It is entirely your own choice ,what ever the history of blooming tea you prefer to believe is immaterial, blooming tea is still a small adventure into beauty, peace and tranquility, a surprise in a teapot. Flowering or Blooming tea are the names by which this tea marvel are more commonly known although it does have several others it is often served after dinner parties not only as a digestive aid but as a conversation starter which it is most certainly particularly if there is one in the group who has never seen blooming tea perform before most are spell bound as soon as they see the flowers begin to emerge after the tea ball has been dropped into the hot water.