Ive never built up the courage to try even a single bubble tea, partly because its stupid expensive, but mostly because im worried about saying the wrong thing and having people think im strange. Like if you asked for extra sugar on your hot dog or something.
Finding that there’s mad purists arguing about what is or isnt doesnt make this any easier.
Its quite mid to bad fruity milk tea with pudding at the bottom
There’s a savory crepe place I stopped going to like 80 cents would get you a fully loaded crepe, but it only came with bobba, and I didnt have the language skills to ask for no tea.
It’s basically a premium milkshake and/or slushie coffee/tea. The two questions you should ask are what kind of fruit do you want and how much caffeine should come with it.
Well the good news is that a Korean corn dog stand will happily add extra sugar and not find the request strange. I guess the lesson is you just have to find where you fit in lol.
The second good news is that food vendors are typically quite happy when you know nothing because they typically like to share new experiences with people.
tbh the worst someone will think is you’re a dumb American, which there are a lot of. They won’t single you out or care at all.
Even if they do, it’ll just be a gossip sesh with coworkers to pass the time and nothing more
at least that’s how it is at my grocery store job. The only things I can remember are
an Irish man with a funny accent
someone who wanted double bagged paper for some reason
and some lady who stole a baby bottle and when the toddler picked it up and yelled “MOMMY YOU FOROGOT THIS!! 😃” nobody said a word about
also someone who tried to hide an antibiotic under dog food which I accidentally uncovered when scanning the dog food. When it rung up it was $25 and I felt sooo bad
I can (potentially) explain the double bagged paper. Growing up in the South that was the de-facto cooling rack, no wire racks or wax paper like you see today. They were cut open, laid on any flat surface, them cookies or cakes or what have you were laid on them to cool. They’d wick away moisture or grease and be easy clean up.
Free with groceries and if they were double bagged you had enough for a double batch of chocolate chip cookies while also usually guaranteeing (usually) the bag wouldn’t split from condensation or something before you got home.
Another more practical reason (besides free bags for use around the house) is that produce is often wet from the misters and refrigerated items condensate once you go outside (especially in the south). Double bagging helps prevent the bags from tearing if/when they get wet. Also, for people buying lots of canned goods, single bags can rip if they’re overloaded. Cashiers and baggers will still double bag plastic bags when they are filling it with a lot of heavy items.
Another reuse for brown paper grocery bags was DIY textbook covers.
The “bubbles” refers to the little edible tapioca balls at the bottom.
The name started as “bo ba”, the Chinese name for the tapioca pearls, and the west turned it into “bubble”. No idea what the original Chinese means, could just be bubble.
It’s often a sweeter milk tea (though pretty much anything goes these days)
The name started as “bo ba”, the Chinese name for the tapioca pearls, and the west turned it into “bubble”. No idea what the original Chinese means, could just be bubble.
The original chinese name before i was introduced to the english name is 珍珠奶茶(zhen zhu nai cha), literally translated as pearl milk tea. That’s around mid 2000s. Not sure which come first though, bubble or boba.
Personally not a fan (don’t like the taste of teas), but many I know are. Order a basic one the first time however it says on the board, ask for a suggestion saying you never tried this before, ask any other questions you have they will generally answer, like “What do other people do with/put in this” you will either love it or feel you wasted money. Either way it will be a new experience. Oh, don’t worry about what others think of your choices (so long as you are not hurting anyone that is) you do you and enjoy, purists will just bring you down
Ive never built up the courage to try even a single bubble tea, partly because its stupid expensive, but mostly because im worried about saying the wrong thing and having people think im strange. Like if you asked for extra sugar on your hot dog or something.
Finding that there’s mad purists arguing about what is or isnt doesnt make this any easier.
The classic bubble tea is just Taiwanese style milk tea with sugar and tapioca
DO NOT ORDER THE CHEESE TEA
Do you mean cheese foam? I love cheese foam.
Just pick any flavor you like and ask for it Animal Style.
Its quite mid to bad fruity milk tea with pudding at the bottom
There’s a savory crepe place I stopped going to like 80 cents would get you a fully loaded crepe, but it only came with bobba, and I didnt have the language skills to ask for no tea.
It’s basically a premium milkshake and/or slushie coffee/tea. The two questions you should ask are what kind of fruit do you want and how much caffeine should come with it.
Well the good news is that a Korean corn dog stand will happily add extra sugar and not find the request strange. I guess the lesson is you just have to find where you fit in lol.
The second good news is that food vendors are typically quite happy when you know nothing because they typically like to share new experiences with people.
tbh the worst someone will think is you’re a dumb American, which there are a lot of. They won’t single you out or care at all.
Even if they do, it’ll just be a gossip sesh with coworkers to pass the time and nothing more
at least that’s how it is at my grocery store job. The only things I can remember are
I can (potentially) explain the double bagged paper. Growing up in the South that was the de-facto cooling rack, no wire racks or wax paper like you see today. They were cut open, laid on any flat surface, them cookies or cakes or what have you were laid on them to cool. They’d wick away moisture or grease and be easy clean up.
Free with groceries and if they were double bagged you had enough for a double batch of chocolate chip cookies while also usually guaranteeing (usually) the bag wouldn’t split from condensation or something before you got home.
Another more practical reason (besides free bags for use around the house) is that produce is often wet from the misters and refrigerated items condensate once you go outside (especially in the south). Double bagging helps prevent the bags from tearing if/when they get wet. Also, for people buying lots of canned goods, single bags can rip if they’re overloaded. Cashiers and baggers will still double bag plastic bags when they are filling it with a lot of heavy items.
Another reuse for brown paper grocery bags was DIY textbook covers.
that’s actually super cool, that’s a neat piece of history I didn’t know about
Isn’t ketchup pretty much just red sugar gel?
Catsup is a pretty wide ranging condiment. You should look up 18th century cooking videos about catsup
And the word ketchup/catsup comes from the Malay word kecap. Which is fermented fish sauce or soy sauce.
It varies a lot. From sweet banana, to tomato based, to the original fish sauce.
On my continent it also has tomato and vinegar lol
Hence it does not belong on tube steak
You leave my tube taco topping choices alone. I’ll put cooked roots, processed milk, egg-oil, and whatever else if I like
Tbh I’m not even sure what bubble tea is. Bubbles, yep. Tea, yep. Tea with bubbles? Have you put washing up liquid in it? Why is it bubbly?
The “bubbles” refers to the little edible tapioca balls at the bottom.
The name started as “bo ba”, the Chinese name for the tapioca pearls, and the west turned it into “bubble”. No idea what the original Chinese means, could just be bubble.
It’s often a sweeter milk tea (though pretty much anything goes these days)
The original chinese name before i was introduced to the english name is 珍珠奶茶(zhen zhu nai cha), literally translated as pearl milk tea. That’s around mid 2000s. Not sure which come first though, bubble or boba.
Tapioca is super fun to shoot at your friends and coworkers.
Personally not a fan (don’t like the taste of teas), but many I know are. Order a basic one the first time however it says on the board, ask for a suggestion saying you never tried this before, ask any other questions you have they will generally answer, like “What do other people do with/put in this” you will either love it or feel you wasted money. Either way it will be a new experience. Oh, don’t worry about what others think of your choices (so long as you are not hurting anyone that is) you do you and enjoy, purists will just bring you down
Just order online so then you don’t have to interact with anyone at all except getting it from counter.
There’s mad purists about everything. Don’t let them prevent you from casually enjoying life.