I first heard about Boba Tea earlier this year when my friend Justin mentioned trying it to me. Justin lives in Dallas; it takes a while for these trends to migrate to Oklahoma. Later in the year, other friends of mine (Pantechnicon and Ubikuberalles, both from Albequerque) also mentioned Boba Tea in their blogs. Finally, the excitement that is Boba Tea has arrived in Oklahoma.
I’m guessing more than a few of you are now wondering, “what is Boba Tea?” Apparently, “boba” is black, gummy tapioca balls — ergo, boba tea is tea with these tiny balls dumped into the bottom of your cup. So saying “I had boba tea” really means nothing, because you could have had any kind of tea. You can have iced tea, green tea, jasmine tea, whatever. Or, you could have a fruit drink with boba in the bottom of it. Or, a smoothie, or a coffee, or a frozen drink, or whatever. So boba is kind of like, “ice.” Saying you had an “iced drink” isn’t specific enough.
Me? I had the “Rocky Road Bobaccino”, a cappuccino that included rocky road ice cream, marshmellows, almonds, whipped cream, and of course, “boba.” And how was it? Just like an ice cream shake with cappuccino and little chewy black balls in the bottom of it. Uneventful, in my opinion. After all the buildup I found the “boba” added very little to the experience. It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good, it was just different. It’s like having someone ask you, “so, how was the ice in your drink?” Icy, I suppose.
Sorry guys. I didn’t hate it, it just wasn’t that exciting.
And why go out of your way to add more calories to anything. I do just fine with the basics. Actually, I’m a tea purist.. don’t want anything in my tea except tea – no lemon, no sugar, no Boba. And the rocky road concoction sounds just fine minus the Boba also, except that I don’t like coffee. Can I have a rocky road hot chocolate? Ah, I just ordered my basic black pants – two pair, two sizes. One I can squeeze into now, and one for a week from now when even those won’t fit! Gotta quit. Just did my first morning at 6:00 am on the treadmill. It’s getting too cold for me to walk the dog around the block at that time of day. Now if I could just superglue my mouth shut we’d do fine.
I had one of these drinks awhile at work awhile back. A Korean guy brought me one. It was very fabulous, but anyway, I have no idea where he got it. I was googling it when I found your blog. So if you don’t mind could you let me know where in OKC they sell them. I think he said it was on 23rd St, but I not for sure.
thanx,
Carrie
I went last night to have tea on 23rd, the service was terrible, i asked to have so of there tea and i got a response from the man working there that ” a. we close in 10 min’s and b. we only have boba tea.” those were his words he used, his customer service skills suck, I will tell all my friends to NEVER go there EVER