Talk:Bubble tea/Archive 1

400:"Bubble Tea originated in the early 80's in Taiwan. It first came about by shaking Black and Green Tea with sugar and ice which formed a frothy head of bubbles at the top giving it its name. Later milk teas were developed and all kinds of flavors can be mixed in too. You can also get a flavored slush. The Tapioca Pearls are chewing gummy balls place at the bottom of the drink to be sucked up through a very wide straw. So you drink refreshing tea and get a fun snack at the same time. There are many different people around the world making these wonder teas, but we believe that we have the secret recipe for the perfect cup and the highest quality ingredients directly from our factories in Taiwan. No order is too small or too large." 1603:

Consider for example, Columbus calling the people he found "Indians". It was certainly incorrect because Indians should be people from India. But the name stuck and until very recently the most common correct definition of "Indian" in the United States was "a person whose ancestors were in America prior to 1492". Consider the word "doubt" which means "suspect" - at least it used to mean that. The meaning has somehow morphed in modern times to mean "suspect not". I guess someone screwed up and inverted the meaning somewhere, but we don't try to correct that usage; we accept it as the new definition.

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decline (thanks to karaoke and other hangout locations) and the recipe for these drinks went away along with the tea houses that served them. Street vendors became the main source of snack-tea for the populace. There were a period of at least 4~5 years where bubble/foamed tea were the main drinks of choice in hot summer days for both street vendors and in karaoke bars. Pearl milk teas started to be added on to the menu, and it later took over and became the main type of tea on the menu. Boba (1/4

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exist there should be a reference to them. And part of what I copied and pasted was the list of ingredients. Lists are not copyright protected. I have vegetarian friends and they would be interested to know that popping boba are not made from gelatin. I included the Frooba reference so as not to be siding with just one brand of juice filled ball manufactures. User:The Potato Hose has threatened to ban me. I'm posting here to go through all the steps before I take this to dispute resolution.

447:(ba) literally means "mighty." The term originated in Hong Kong, where 波 took on the additional meaning as the transliteration of "ball," and can refer to a variety of round objects, and in the case of 波霸, that of the female breasts. Taken in that sense, 波霸 can then be interpreted as "mighty breasts," which therefore implies a woman with large breasts. In context to 波霸奶茶 (Boba Milk Tea), the "mighty ball " refers to the large "tapioca" balls, because of its relative size to regular tapioca. 1246:

mentioning the balls needs to be placed between these two, the summary of an article should not require knowledge of information that is contained within the article. I don't think most people outside of Taiwan have ever heard of this stuff, and most are probably like me drawn to it through a link in another article. When I saw the link in the Taiwan article to 'Bubble tea' I assumed it was some sort of carbonated beverage, so I found the first two sentences somewhat confusing. --

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Korean-owned, and it's always crowded by Koreans, especially on Fridays, when the Lakeview Church youth group (which is all-Korean)goes after Friday services. There is a place called Tea Leaf cafe in China Town (in the city) that has another location at the new shopping center (we live in a suburb, and there's a new, expensive development) that has more white people, but is still flooded by Koreans. Alot of places like this also have board games and stuff.

31: 1768:"Instant Boba Milk Tea" mixes in individual serving packets are now widely available in Asian and Thai grocery stores. In keeping with modern marketing practices, while the illustration shows a translucent cup with large purple boba pearls showing through, in very small letters are the words "serving suggestion" and "Just add Boba". There is no mention of the time-consuming process of preparing the tapioca pearls. 831:

they're soaked? Why are the balls put into a sugar and water solution afterwards? To sweeten them, or is the sugar some kind of... preservative to keep them nice and chewy? I guess I'm really just curious about the process used to make the pearls. I think the article would be much more helpful to people who don't know anything about bubble tea but enjoy it (like me) if there were some more info on the process.

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thing? Or define a thing the wrong way. We know, and can establish, that "Boba" is the pearls in the drink, but does it "define" the drink? Or is the drink an established beverage and the pearls an accessory to the drink? Whereas the "bubbling" is the method for making the drink and therefore much more central. Might this be a better approach to the naming?

547:; this is most apparent in the Availability section where both "boba" and "pearl milk" is used and "bubble tea" is not. Also, "bubble tea shop", "bubble tea lounge", and "bubble tea house" are more commonly used than "bubble tea café" AFAIK. I suggest that the Taiwan-centric terminology be made secondary to the North American/English. 3084: 2978: 2506:. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the 2420:. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the 2298:. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the 2212:. When requesting whitelisting, be sure to supply the link to be whitelisted and wrap the link in nowiki tags. Please do not remove the tag until the issue is resolved. You may set the invisible parameter to "true" whilst requests to white-list are being processed. Should you require any help with this process, please ask at the 3027: 1821:"Bubble tea originated in Taiwan in the 1980s, first spread to nearby East Asian countries, migrated to Canada before spreading to Chinatowns throughout the United States, and then to various college towns along the West Coast. The first cafe in the UK to specialise in bubble tea-making was opened in April 2011." 1745::3) So bubble tea and boba tea are used synonymously and they both refer to tea that contain the big tapioca pearls. Many tea stands in the states still serve foamed/froth tea, but... you'll probably have to order them in chinese and not enlglish (no such confusion in the chinese language, thankfully) 3168:

I've deleted it because it's simply not correct. I looked up the reference and did not see this term in there. As a Taiwanese who drinks this frequently I've never heard of this term either. If I hear anyone say these words I'd expect either a novelty product consisting of frothy tea or it being used

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I thought the same thing. But from the discussion above (in the section titled "Literal meaning") it seems that "bubble" is the English rendering of the Chinese word "boba", which means "big breasts". Mixed with a confusion between Chinese bubble tea (that is shaken to a froth) and Chinese boba tea

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tapioca pearl) were a very popular snack in Taiwan and tea houses were big cultural hangouts during the 80's, so it is not surprising that some tea houses would attempt such combination. The modern popularity of the drink definitely did not inherit directly from that, because tea houses took a sharp

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The Bubble tea Boba tea question is entirely different. The question "What is Bubble tea?" is entirely a question of definition - how does one define "bubble tea"? Definitions are determined by usage. Sometimes usage is incorrect or confusing, but it becomes the standard and becomes the definition.

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Readin has a point but we also need to take into account not to perpetuate an incorrect use simply because it is the most prolific. I know a business that advertises "Bubble Tea" near me and was talking with the owner, she said that she's had boba drinks on the menu for 6 months but nobody knows what

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Later on, mini theaters start to become popular (shops that show movies in private boothes, called MTV in Taiwan in the 80s). These theaters serve snacks and drink to the customers, most often Bubble Black Tea. However, in order to attract customers who are usually teenagers, they start to experiment

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I'm from a Taiwanese family living in California, and we've always called it Pearl Milk Tea. (Or more precisely, Zhen Zhu Nai Cha.) It wasn't until about 3 years ago where I heard it called "Boba", which to my understanding is street slang in Taiwan for Pearl Milk Tea. From my understanding, "Bubble"

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I never noticed that line in the lead before, I'm not really sure what they're talking about and it doesnt seem to line up with the sources we have. There are a number of bubble tea variations that float a cream or custard on top of the drink but that doesnt appear to be whats being described there.

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The article says "or more commonly referred to as bubble tea by most English speakers and overseas Chinese." It is clear what is meant by "English speakers". But what does it mean to say that "overseas Chinese" call it "bubble tea". Presuming that "overseas Chinese" means Chinese expats, wouldn't

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The minutia of the Sherlock argument are pedantic and moot, the point is the same and, from what you've expressed, you've seen it so I'm good with that (although I would like to see an example of "doubt" meaning "suspect not", that one is new to me). I wonder if we are not trying to define the wrong

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evidence that "Bubble Tea" is the name to use and very little in the way of evidence that we shouldn't use it. If "Boba" is more correct as an industry standard there should be reliable sources to back that up and we need to put them here to gain consensus (at least from me - I don't know if anyone

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I don't think it's necessary to refer to Taiwan as "democratic island nation officially known as the Republic of China (Taiwan)" every single time. This isn't an article about the geography of Taiwan...it's an article about a specialty drink that happens to originate from Taiwan. Why is it referred

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why do we need to specify that after coming from Taiwan it went into various college towns on the West Coast (I assume this is the West Coast of the USA?). Bubble tea has been in Australia for at least 6+ years and I'm sure it is the same in some other countries - I don't understand why this has to

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I agree with Will that they should be distinguished to preserve history but it should still be noted that people simply use them synonymously. i lived in Taiwan and saw the progression of the drink as it evolved. I think there are a few pop-culture books/magazines that contain some research on the

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Given that the antisemitism article has a section on usage detailing the confusion between literal antisemitism and what the term is used to mean, should we not also at least apply a similar section to refer to the boba/bubble debate regardless of it's merit? Would it be particularly hard to find a

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I appreciate the attempt to clarify things, but this Knowledge is an English Knowledge, not a Chinese one. Even though the literal translation is "Pearl Milk Tea", the English term is "Bubble Tea". To say it is "in the west often mistakenly called Bubble Tea" suggests that we know better than all

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You can buy it in the Hong Kong Cafe just down the road from Leicester Square tube station. Come out of the Leicester Square exit, turn left and walk down the road, and it's a few doors down. There are looooooads of flavours too :) My friend showed this place to me today. I lived in China for a

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I'm sorry if this seems selfish, but I added some things about bubble tea that I think might be more specific to my area. I added the definition of bubbles as the tapioca balls, as I think it is a good explanation of the name, as I read this off of one cafe's wall, and I have heard it several times

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I think the bubble tea craze has dwindled a bit, but Asian communities still love tea shops and cafes. You're right, it's a tough business, especially the tea shops in Asia.. there's one on every street corner. Tea shops have become more creative though with new add-ins replacing tapioca, such as

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So to recap, while all three terms are used in English, they actually have different original meanings. Bubble Tea means tea shaken in cocktail shaker that started this trend in Taiwan. Pearl Milk Tea is the general term for the tea drink with tapioca pearls. Boba Milk Tea is the one that has large

1687:. Readin my apologies, but there was some formatting problem with your last entry in this section that was causing everything below it to italicize. I was unable to parse it well enough to correct the formatting issue (no dangling double apostrophes found, etc.) so I had to just reformat your text. 1515:

The problem with a definition is that a word is defined by how people use it. I understand that from an etymological point-of-view, the use of "Bubble Tea" to refer to the drink with tapioca balls may have resulted from mis-translation or misunderstanding, but we have to consider current use. At

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From experience, in Taiwan, generally about 25 NT for a regular size cup, 30NT for large (less than $ 1 USD). In the Dallas area, it goes for usually around $ 2.75 for regular and up to $ 3.20-3.50 or so for large. In Houston, about $ 3 for regular (I think...), and in California generally $ 3.25+

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Agree with above comments, this article should be titled "bubble tea", NOT "pearl milk tea". This thing is called bubble tea in English; "bubble tea" is the vastly more common term, outweighing "pearl milk tea" by 728,000 to 32,400 in Google hits. There was no consensus for the move to "pearl milk

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Though it is acknowledged that the drink originated from Taiwan, there is a dispute on the inventer of the drink reported in News papers. I believe one shop in Taichung disputes with another shop in Tainan claiming the invention of the drink. The current article attributed the invention to one but

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Everyone I know calls it a pearl shake (and not pearl milk tea since there are many different flavors like chocolate, mango, strawberry and creme brule in the Philippines) and that was the search query I used to try to find this article (which states that it's only around 8% accurate in the search

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big pearls) milk teas were introduced after that and quickly replaced the pearl teas (since bigger is better!). Small pearls are retired since the majority of drinkers would order Boba instead of pearl, and the vendors eventually decide to only prepare Boba. Though it seems that in the U.S., the

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Under the culture section, I changed "Some cafes use a non-dairy milk substitute instead of milk, which adds a distinct flavor and consistency to the drink." to "Some cafes use a non-dairy milk substitute, such as Coffee-Mate, instead of milk because many East Asians are lactose intolerant. This

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Why are the tapioca pearls black? (Particularly given that the main tapioca article refers to tapioca as being white, and tapioca pudding pearls are clear.) Also, what does this sentence mean: "The water to pearl ratio is significantly higher." Higher than what? How much do the pearls expand when

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Milk tea or Hong Kong Style Milk Tea (kong sik nai cha) usually does not refer to boba tea. If you order a milk tea or a Hong Kong style milk tea, you generally do not get boba with it. If you want boba tea, you usually need to request it and order boba tea (boba nai cha) not just milk tea (nai

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There needs to be something in the entry about popping boba. Notability guidelines do not limit content within an article. I can buy it at my local Asian restaurants but there is no mention of it in the article. This is the sort of information people come to wikipedia looking for. Popping balls

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The first sentence lacks a citation - while I have personally seen this product in some Asian groceries, the article lacks a verifiable source as to whether or not this product widely available. The latter two sentences lack neutral point of view and take a very critical tone with regard to the

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The second sentence is broken, it leads off with "The balls", when I read it I thought "What balls?". Reading the article, I found out that the tea contains little tapioca (or other starch) balls, but without knowing this information ahead of time the sentence didn't make sense. Another sentence

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Reference 2 is a newspaper article from December 1999 in the San Francisco Examiner about tapioca tea. A shop is reported to use Coffee-Mate because of lactose intolerance in East Asians. I also linked lactose intolerant to the Knowledge article Lactose Intolerance. This article states that a

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Issue with: 泡沫紅茶 or 泡沫红茶 (pinyin: C hóngchá): "bubble black tea", used mainly in Taiwan. Hong (紅) means red in Mandarin Chinese - Hei (黑) means black I'm not going to change it as I am only in second year Chinese and could be wrong - just thought I would bring it to the attention of the editors.

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This is a problem with the definition of the word, I don't know who would confuse "bubble tea" with "boba tea" with the exception of people confused between "bubble" and "boba", since their pronunciation is similar. I don't know how can I provide reliable sources beside giving the definition of

266:, there was a time when the Milk tea made using bigger pearls were called "Boba Milk Tea", but "Pearl Milk Tea" became the common name for it. It is in overseas that the name "Boba (bubble)" is more common. Especially in North Taiwan, shops only sell "Pearl Milk Tea", usually with bigger pearls. 1269:

Personally, I learned it as "Pearl Milk Tea" because I learned about the stuff from a speaker of Chinese who translated it word-for-word. However, that's not how the English language adopted it. If I want to tell friends about the stuff and suggest they buy it, I have to tell them Bubble Tea

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for wanting to charge me more for bubbles, and if I let them then they'll put the "boba" in. In much the same way as the old definition of "hacker", usually meaning just a person good with computers, has the current definition of the old "cracker", bubble tea and boba tea are the same thing.

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Having living through these periods, and also understand English, perhaps I can clarify these terms. In the early 1980s, there were tea shops (akin to coffee shops) popular in Taiwan that served beverages and Western style snacks. These shops served predominantly black tea shaken in a cocktail

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I think this dictionary entry is rather unnessesary, just a collection of names in various languages. The Chinese section also gives a lot of names, however, are these synonyms for bubble tea itself or are these names of sub-variants of bubble tea? It looks like the latter, although the first

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I reside just north of a predominantly pan-Chinese immigrant neighborhood (a new so-called "Chinatown" in the suburbs, so to speak). A number of mom-and-pop boba beverage stores have frequently come and gone in the area and the major chains currently dominate. Tough business. Could this be

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Hello! I've added a citation needed to this: "which is shaken with ice to create the "bubbles", a foamy layer on top of the drink" as the image in the article does not show any frothing or air bubbles on the top of the drink and I've never seen bubble tea prepared in this way. Is this a more

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I agree that the article should not perpetuate the incorrect use of a term simply because it is the most prolific. However, this article is a relatively obscure and mundane example where Knowledge is concerned, where others have been confused by this issue...for example see the article on

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as a verb phrase, as in 我們來泡泡茶 "let's brew some tea". I googled this term and the results are like what I said, either some completely different novelty food or used in a phrase. I suspect the term was added by some non-native speaker doing a word-for-word translation of the English term

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least in the heavily English-speaking area where I live, if I want to go buy the drink with tapioca balls, I'll find it under advertisements for "Bubble Tea" far more often than under advertisements for "Boba Tea". In fact I almost never see "Boba Tea". My experience doesn't count as a

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In addition, I would like to add something about bubble tea cafes being popular places for Asian Americans. Let me tell you how it is in Glenview, Il (Chicago suburb): There is one place called Liquid Fusion right next to a PC-bpoung (PC gaming lab, "bpoung" being Korean for room). It is

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it depend on whether they are speaking their country's language (Chinese) or the English? What about overseas Chinese living in non-English-speaking nations? It think we should remove the reference to "overseas Chinese" or else explain more clearly what is meant by the usage here.

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I would imagine it depends on your geographic location, as well as what sort you're getting. The variety I get usually runs me about $ 3.99 here in Seattle, but there's some variation with that, too. I'm guessing it's somewhere around the same price as your typical espresso drink.

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It is widely available that the original beverage, prior to the addition of pearls, was known as bubble tea because shaking the beverage produces small bubbles. Either a misunderstanding or a rebranding over the past decade has reformed the definition of 'bubbles' as 'pearls'.

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I strongly suspect the word "boba" is a Chinese rendering of "bubble." Of course I realize that a strong suspicion is the opposite of what you are asking for here! Nevertheless that is the most plausible explanation given that "bubble tea" is the English name for this drink.

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Pearl Milk Tea in an innovation by mixing milk tea with traditional Taiwanese tapioca pearls (粉圓）. These pearls are bout 1cm in diameter. When people introduced larger pearls into the drink, they call them Boba, which means is a Hong Kong term describing big breasts.

1900:. There's no point repeating that it is "officially known as" every time. The US is officially the United States of America and Canada is officially the Dominion of Canada, but we don't use the full names of those countries, so why do it in this article for Taiwan? 237:

This whole article disturbs me as being imprecise, and it begins with the title. Bubble tea and Pearl Milk Tea are not the same thing. Each has its own distinctive name in Mandarin. It was Pearl Milk Tea that was invented here in Taichung, not Bubble Tea. ]

1322:. We can address the fact that "pearl milk tea" is a more literal translation by simply including that information in the introductory paragraph. Furthermore, "bubble tea" would NOT be a literal translation of the process from Chinese; "bubbling tea" (the 1799:

This is a really useful article. It answered all my questions about bubble tea and some questions that I didn't know that I had. I think it doesn't need any more work, and having the Needs Cleanup banner at the top is very off-putting to new readers.

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can be used to describe any kind of tea with Boba, but usually refers to "Boba Milk Black Tea" because it is the most common kind. If no one objects, I'll begin rewrite/split this article into "Bubble Tea" and "Boba Tea" articles in a few days.

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I don't have any source on this besides my friend who owns a gourmet tea shop and is very knowledge able about teas, but the term "bubble tea" in english may have nothing to do with boba or the tapioca balls at all. According to her websited:

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which have been added to the blacklist, either globally or locally. Links tend to be blacklisted because they have a history of being spammed or are highly inappropriate for Knowledge. The addition will be logged at one of these locations:

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As I have also already explained to you, yes notability does affect content. If Frooba isn't a well-known or dominant brand within the sector, it looks like spam to include it here. And since no other brands are mentioned, there is no

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This implies that all bubble tea contains tea and milk. Later the article goes on to say that there are different types, one that contains milk, and another that is simply fruit flavored. This makes the entire article misleading.

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Currently in Taipei, and a work collegue from Taiwan bought me some of this bubble tea, and said he did not know how to say what the bubbles where, he only knew "pearl white tea", a quick trip to Knowledge revealed all. Thanks...

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be American-centric. I propose we change the article to simply read something like ""Bubble tea originated in Taiwan in the 1980s, first spread to nearby East Asian countries and then to many Western countries around the world""--

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before. I added some details about fruit freezes someties refered to as bubble tea, and about milk tea and stuff. And I added the thing about the plastic seals- those are cool, and sometimes the images on them are fobby and neat.

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You are right. In Taiwan, the term "Bubble Tea" strictly refers to the tea beverage produced in the cocktail shaker, which was popular about 20+ years ago. The milk tea with tapioca we are discussing here is called "Pearl Milk

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tea", nor was there discussion beforehand. While I agree that "pearl milk tea" is a more literal translation than "bubble tea", that doesn't matter, because as this is the English Knowledge, the common English name, per

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are you sure that boba properly translates to "dominatrix of balls"? dominatrix is the feminine form of dominator. i don't think that's a proper translation. boba does refer to the texture of women's breasts though.

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Does anyone have any information to add to this article regarding the nutritional value of bubble tea, if any? I've heard some say that the stuff is extremely high in calories, while others say it lacks any nutrients.

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for how modern use of a term has trampled over its clear etymology. I am but a humble observer with not enough vested interest in Knowledge to even register, but Padillah if you wish to champion that cause over in

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with the variety of beverages by mixing drinks to create different colors and flavors, and give each drink a hip name. This was about the time when mass innovation in drinks were starting to be seen in Taiwan.

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I think in different regions it took different names ... it's like the General Tao, General Tso thing. What should be done is a vote to see what is the most commonly known name and make that the main page.

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I think the same ... I'm in Montreal, Canada and I have always heard it being called Bubble Tea, also it is still called Bubble Tea no matter if it has bubbles or not and it doesn't necessarily need milk.

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I have already basically said all this on your talkpage. What part(s) of what I am saying do you not understand? I can explain them better, maybe, but you need to tell me what you do not understand here.

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Can anyone get a better reference than Urban Dictionary for the etymology of the term "boba"? Since anyone can add an entry to Urban Dictionary, citing it and only it is problematic, to say the least. -

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Many large portions of this article need to be organized in a more logical order so that one idea or point follows the next instead of this jumble of little things. This is especially true in the intro.

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I read that the language of Shakespeare is made difficult for modern readers because English has changed so much with some words even meaning the opposite of what they once meant, e.g. "suspect".

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Interesting. Well, no one I know ever refers to it as "bubble tea". Most people I know refer to it as "pearl tea" or "pearl milk tea". Sometimes I hear people call it "Boba". BTW, I live in

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Can someone explain why, as the article states, tapioca pearls are not necessary for bubble tea? Isn't that like saying that milk tea doesn't need to have milk in it to be called "milk tea"?

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I moved the article to "bubble tea". Everyone I know calls it "bubble tea"; furthermore, a Google search for "bubble tea" returns 40300 results, far more than for any of the other names above.

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Would consider a section on franchise opportunities to have a place in the article. Not that I am against sole proprietors. Maybe even some metrics on locations and growth of the segment.--

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is the proper name for an Asian soy food. They're both correct and approximately interchangeable. What you use for the name is more of a reflection of how mentally close you are to Asia.

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seeds, which swell up and look like frog eggs, have been used for a long time in China. This should probably be added to the article because there may be a relationship between the two.

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origin of the drink. Though they are in Chinese and i wouldn't know where to find them again. haha. In any case, the current history sounds familiar, as tapioca balls (fenyuan, 1/12

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results). This is the first time I've ever heard of Bubble tea in my whole life so I do hope this gets resolved by someone who knows their pearl shakes all over the world. -anonymous

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I haven't seen any in the Boston area, not in malls anyway. The stuff is utterly unfamiliar to me. I'll have to take a look the next time I'm in the local Asian superette, though.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20130908180643/http://www.ava.gov.sg/NR/rdonlyres/9253E7B2-E57D-4992-982C-1304E73748D6/26074/Pressrelease_RecallofstarchbasedproductsfromTaiwan.pdf

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https://web.archive.org/web/20130616073046/http://www.ava.gov.sg/NR/rdonlyres/9253E7B2-E57D-4992-982C-1304E73748D6/26031/foodalert_Taiwanrecallsfoodproductsduetounapproved.pdf

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I propose we return to a single article with Bubble Tea as the main and "Pearl Milk Tea" mentioned as a less common alternative way of saying it and as a literal translation.

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I don't believe so either. To me, it just means "busty", as in describing huge female breasts, maybe like those possessed by overweight women or just silicon-enhanced. :o) --

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What proof or citation do we have that the balls are made from "yam starch" in East Asia? Suggest this be deleted if no citation is supplied within a couple months.

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This is within the realm of common knowledge and can stand without citation, though of course the article could be improved by expanding this with suitable sources.

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There may be encyclopedic value in noting that some instant milk tea mixes are sold as bubble tea, so for the time being I am adding the following placeholder text:

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Okay I see your point. Maybe I'll rewrite some portion of the introduction to clarify the relationship between the name "bubble tea" and what the actual drink is.--

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year and had milk tea (as we called it, not knowing the correct name) practically every day, and this is the only place I've come across in England which does it!

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Hi, I restored the recipe text back to its former incarnation since some user Lauraa changed the first line to include some inapprorpiate text for this article.

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Seriously. "add equally tantalizing texture". "Aloe, egg pudding, sago, taro balls can also be found in most tea houses to complete the perfect cup of tea."

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I take offense when Google counts are used as a source of reverence like this. Like it's mentioned in many article discussions, Knowledge is meant to be an

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I don't see any information about Singapore's strong bubble tea craze at a time. Bubble tea is not popular in Singapore anymore. From over 1000 outlets in

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Several years ago, I'd only seen it in chinatown, but two years after the above comment, there's quite a few places to get it -- Tealuxe, Lollicup, etc.

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This seems fairly possible considering that many knowledgable people consider the bevarage without the tapioca pearls to still be bubble tea. --samusamu

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im intrigued by bubble tea and wish to try it. where i live doesnt have any places to buy it ready to drink, so i will have to create my own at home.

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for a picture of the uncooked pearls(the brown stuff in the vacuum pack). The sugar solution may be to prevent the pearls from sticking together. --

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traditional preparation, as I live in a Western country, is this how bubble tea made in Taiwan for example? I would love a citation about this!

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I agree. Although the editors are probably trying to be consistent with the Chinese Knowledge article, which sites 泡泡茶 as an alternative name.

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Same thoughts as J3ff. I've heard most of the other names in the list EXCEPT bubble tea, but I guess it's just a California-vs-the-U.S. thing.

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Much belatedly, there's also a bubble tea place (called Tapicha, maybe?) in the Porter Square Exchange, which has been around quite a while.

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It's not sourced, but it does back up the claim that it is more commonly called as Pearl Milk Tea in Taiwan / China, where it originated. --

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http://newsletter.sgs.com/eNewsletterPro/uploadedimages/000006/sgs-safeguards-14812-bubble-tea-under-surveillance-in-germany-a4-en-12.pdf

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It is quite often called Pearl Milk Tea or Boba Tea in Boston, so there is no consensus that it's called Bubble Tea in English either.

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Can someone add to the article how the black tapioca pearls acquire their black color? Is this natural or is there some color added?

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Still no info on this, huh? That's awesome. I guess it is kind of silly to think that an article about a food might contain such info.

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It is important to cite where your information comes from in the description portion of the article. Failing to do so, violates the

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Although this is a fairly new invention, there's a precedent for Chinese drinking cold drinks containing gelatinous/chewy balls;

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aloe or grass jelly. Another drink served at bubble tea stores in Taiwan now is something called an iced milk honey boba drink.

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the people who call it "Bubble Tea". Do you have a reliable source for calling it "Pearl Milk Tea" rather than "Bubble Tea"?

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I feel that the first sentence in the Description section contradicts the rest of the article. It first says the following:

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i'm in guangzhou, prc. and they are about 5-9 rmb. around 1 usd. on campuses you can get them for as little as 2 rmb.

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Single-serving packets of black tea (with powdered milk and sugar included) are available as "Instant Boba Milk Tea".

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How popular is this stuff really? There's even a boba tea place at one of the local malls in jacksonville, florida

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I believe that we are actually discussing the evolution of language here. Otherwise I could get mad at the local

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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the

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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the

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wording is misused, confused, and re-imposed (isn't that sick!? i mean a new reinvented word is the shit! : -->

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form) would be the literal translation of the process, so there is no confusion about the term "bubble tea". —

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to their Boba, calling it "Popping Boba". I have no idea how wide spread this is or if it deserves mention.

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refers exactly to "tea with bubble". It usually doesn't contain milk and can be either black or green tea.

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that is. When she put them under the header "Bubble teas" she can't make them fast enough. Case in point,

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to as "the island nation" and "officially known as the Republic of China (Taiwan)" every time? Either it

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I think we can make the global spread of bubble tea much simpler. Looking at the sentence in the article

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ductive reasoning. Just because that's what it's called by the masses doesn't mean the masses are right.

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OK, it's clear that the "pearls" are not the bubbles, it's the froth produced by shaking the beverage.

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I have some more info on bobaaaa so i was wondering is it ok if i edit this page please and thank you.

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I have some more info on bobaaaa so i was wondering is it ok if i edit this page please and thank you.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20090503060535/http://www.fivebyfifty.com/2009/03/17/healthier-bubble-tea/

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Could be used to develop the tea wiki (www.tea.wikia.com]] article - which would solve the problem.

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shaker, therefore they are called "Bubble Black Tea Shops," which describes the bubbles in the tea.

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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2011%2F6%2F17%2Fnation%2F20110617211015&sec=nation

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because that's the English word for it, and that's what they'll have to know to find it on a menu.

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Who deleted all the External Links that were there a year and a half ago, and previously, and why?

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is an American corruption of "Boba", and I never heard the term until I moved outside California.

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