Move aside juice and smoothie bars, bubble tea is here! This tea-based drink, made with chewy tapioca pearls, is sure to give you a caffeine boost with a flavorful twist. Bubble tea, also known as ...

Bring 4 cups of water to boil in a medium saucepan. Add the tapioca and simmer for 30 minutes or until the pearls turn clear, stirring to make sure the tapioca does not stick to the bottom of the pan.

Not everybody loves the texture of tapioca pearls at the bottom of the strong iced drink that’s often called bubble tea, but Cathy Erway, author of a new cookbook called “The Food of Taiwan,” says ...

The partners behind Boba Guys, a chain of bubble-tea cafes, already made their own infusions and syrups to go with the tea leaves they imported from China, Taiwan and Japan. A few years ago, they got ...

I love a good boba (or bubble) smoothie after a big bowl of pho or a banh mi. There’s something so fun about sucking up cold, sweet smoothie and finding those little tapioca pearls capriciously ...

That photogenic cup of bubble tea may come with hidden downsides. Tapioca pearls made from cassava can absorb heavy metals ...