We have them on every corner it seems. I don't even like milky or creamy drinks much less milky tea with little slimy balls floating in it. Can't even stand sweet tea. So for me it's a big no.

I really liked the Boba drinks, but aren't they made from soy-and not the good kind? So, when I learned that I never went back. When I say "learned" that, I never did research into it when I first heard that a couple of years ago, so I could be totally wrong.

They are busy here too, from the college kids mainly.

Do you like tapioca? It has the same texture. My kids order boba tea. I'll take a few sips but once I hit a boba, I'm out.

It looks like the store you linked has a lot of other interesting drinks besides the boba tea. I'd try something with wintermelon, the internets say it has a fresh, cucumber-like flavor.

I don't like tapioca, so bubble tea has never appealed and I've never tried it.

IME way toooooo sweet

I wouldn't go out of my way for it. Something about the gelatinous texture of the "bubbles" makes me feel slightly grossed out.

now i have to make tapioca pudding

I actually love tapioca pudding but the idea of bubble tea has never appealed to me. It’s popular around here, too. I thought it was a passing fad, but they are opening a new place in our town too.

I've had them before, they sell here in a lot of Asian restaurants. It is very sweet so I don't normally order them, but sometimes it sounds good. I will usually get the coffee flavored ones.

I like it and get one maybe once a month. I usually drink unsweetened tea, so for me, it is in no way related to tea. That said, I like oolong milk tea and I like the chewyness of tapiocas. It's a drink and a snack in one! The place on my corner offers to add regular tapioca bobas and also something they call "yogurt pops" in the tea. They are slightly tart and really good in the sweet tea.

When my youngest was in high school she loved bubble tea. So much that she had a frequent customer card at one of the tea shops. I took sips a couple of times and liked the taste but it was dessert sweet to me so I wouldn't waste the calories! We once bought the ingredients, including tapioca pearls to try at home. She didn't like it as much.

I like tapioca pudding as a dessert, though I can't remember the last time I had it. I also remember once buying and using tapioca in the form used as a thickener in cooking. It worked well but for whatever reason I haven't bought it again.

I've tried tea drinks a few times and didn't like it.

I want to like bubble tea, but I don't. It's too sweet, too milky and tapioca is not my thing. But it's cute. My children like it, always have.

you can ask for half sugar so its less sweet.

I haven't tried the tea, if we have a bubble tea vendor here I haven't seen it. I like (love) creamy drinks, but not particularly sweet drinks.

I do like tapioca. Pudding, and I use the minute type product in my fruit and berry pies. My BIL puts it in the applesauce he makes for the freezer. I don't care for tapioca in applesauce and don't know why he does that. I'm a sauce purist, apples, bit of water or squeeze of lemon to start the cooking process without scorching, no sugar, and that's it.

If I see a bubble tea shop, I'll try it and hope for one that's not too sweet.

Boba tea is super popular where we live - big business! I've tried sips of it but have trouble getting past the sweetness and the texture. My kids don't love it but go often with friends and have both found a mango drink that they like a lot without the tapioca.

It's kind of fun. My kids seem to enjoy it. I have bought kits from Trader Joe's and Costco for it from the freezer sections. I do not find the novelty worth the calories or the price which probably makes me a curmudgeon in the eyes of my kids.

It seemed to be a fad 20 years ago in Westwood (UCLA neighborhood), but I did not like it. My niece told me I should try it, but I did not like the tapioca going through a straw, and it was also too sweet for me.

My daughter loves the stuff, but I didn't grow up with lumps in my beverages and I just find it weird.

There are the traditional tapioca pearls, but you can also get popping boba, which are more like liquid-filled spheres (filled with flavored syrup). I find the latter more palatable, but then I never liked tapioca pudding, either.

We've mail-ordered popping boba so that my daughter could make her own for parties (using black tea).

I have never heard of it called bubble tea - only Boba tea. I would not have known what you were talking about it called that. It doesn't seem to be a kid thing here.

I have never in my life heard of this.

A fancy new drive-thru tea place has opened in my town, but I haven’t been. I wonder if they serve this gooey tea.

We have many bubble tea shops - and more all the time, so it must be gaining in popularity. I've not tried it though; it just doesn't appeal to me (I am a hard core black tea drinker, no sweetener or milk, thank you!)

I love boba…. I get the milk tea but it has to be made with brewed black tea… not powdered ….I also only get it with half the sugar so its not as sweet and the tapioca pearls and lychee jelly….yummy:)

LOVE bubble tea - especially the boba. I usually get taro, mango, or lychee. I've been buying them for years, but used to be there were only a few places to get them (like at a Vietnamese restaurant or grocery store) and a few flavours. Now they are everywhere (there are 3 in our local mall) and most offer your choice of sugar level and many flavours and types. I usually go for 50% sugar and find that is pretty sweet.

We are in the same boat again Jilly. i do not know of any bubble/boba tea shops here. I dont like tapioca so doesnt sound like my cup of tea! ha!! We do have an abundance of these nutrition shops which serve supposedly healthy teas and shakes.

Super common around where I live (San Diego). They do great business next to high schools. Thai restaurants also typically have a selection of them on the menu.

I forgot to add to my previous comment I was asked how sweet I wanted it so apparently they could add more or less depending on personal desire. The medium was a little too sweet for me. Many of the regular coffee shops in this area also make it.

Oh how I love tapioca pudding when you separate the eggs and the beaten whites make it fluffy and cloud-like. It was the dessert of my childhood. I love it still warm.

It’s VILE.

There are a lot of tea-boba shops here in the Sacramento area. My granddaughters enjoy many of their offerings. I really dont care about the boba additions, but I really like the slushies. They’re usually dairy free. The thing I really enoy about these kinds of shops is that they always have a passion fruit flavor. It’s a something I really like but is hard to find.

I’ve found that at most shops, you have an option of various levels of sweetness. I usuallly go with no sweetener or the next to last level. So, I’m happy to end up at a tea/boba shop with my family. A passion fruit slushie is a treat for me.

Video of granddaughter trying the bubbles of my tea. Hope it plays!

Darn, cant can’t load the video. She hasn’t tried my tea yet in this pic.

Now i lost the video. Oh well, it showed her taking a bubble out of her mouth and rolling it around on a napkin, trying to figure out if she should really eat one. Ended up she ate all of them!

Just had milk tea with pearls and lychee…

shambo, I had a passion fruit vine when I lived in Venice (CA), and it got so huge that I would be as many as 80 passion fruits a day. I bought a Juiceman juicer so that I could extract the juice without seeds, and I would make sorbet with the juice.

My favorite juice is pitaya (Dragon Fruit), and I would buy it almost daily when I was in Brazil.

I grow this now in my back yard and have some fruit that I am waiting to ripen, but the plant does not make very much fruit 😞. The juice is pretty sweet (unlike passion fruit), but not as sweet as Boba Tea.

I love boba! My favorite is taro milk tea and taro smoothie. I just can't drink it as often now (newly diagnosed pre-diabetic 😞.)

Anyhoo, back in early 2000's, I worked night shift, and someone would do a food run before midnight. Usually it was the dollar tacotaco but sometimes Thai, or In & Out. This was in LA, so lots of places are open late. One time we had boba. One coworker said, "What are you drinking? Looks like fish eye." LOL

I have to say the only reason I' ve ever heard of boba tea is because the word shows up in crosswords a lot. Haven't seen any shops in my northeast suburban town but I'm sure Boston and Providence have them.

Definitely, a generational divide on who likes it in this house. I can't stand it. My kids and their friends love it.

I'm on a no sugar diet, but wanted to say - we are nine miles from a huge mall, and it has three bubble tea shops that are always busy.