12/5/2023 0 Comments Bubble tea nycFor when you can’t decide between bubble tea as a drink, or as ice cream, check out Surreal Creamery’s “ Floteas.” Pictured below is the Thai bubble milk tea with twin swirls of rather subtly-flavoured ube and matcha green tea soft poured into a plastic cup that must measure a ruler’s length. What’s better than a cold bubble tea drink on a summer day? Icecream! How about bubble tea ice cream? Say what?! Say “YES”!! We generally prefer proper icecream to soft serve, but Bar Pa Tea’s bubble tea soft serve ice cream is one exception we have no hesitation in making for something lightly oolong scented. Short and sweet story: Soft serve ice cream ($6-7 + tax). Surreal Creamery, Midtown East and Greenwich Village.At the time of writing this, we have even heard that some (possibly crazy) restaurant has recently started offering “ bubble tea hot pot” (?!)…and we read something about a “ bubble tea pizza” (?!). What follows is our sightings of bubble tea-inspired desserts in NYC. Of the past year or so in NYC, we have spotted a curious trend of bubble not being contented with being confined within said plastic cup. Because – as we learned when we visited about five years ago – nothing satisfies your thirst quite like a plastic cup of black milk tea with tapioca pearls bobbing around waiting to be slurped up, sucked in and chewed out. For those who have visited Taiwan especially in the high peak of summer there, you will discover the the reason for its invention. Invented in the early 1980s in Taiwan, it is today found in some form or other, in every major city across the world. Bubble tea (also known as “pearl milk tea” 珍珠奶茶 in Asia, or “boba” here in North America) is just a little older than these Dessert Correspondents.
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