Green tea is passé: Bubble tea trend is making a splash

Bubble tea is the name given to a wide variety of refreshing flavoured fruit teas with cherry tapioca balls.
MUMBAI: Bubble tea, a flavoured fruit tea of Taiwan, has lately been gaining popularity amongst the Mumbaikars.

Bubble tea is the name given to a wide variety of refreshing flavoured fruit teas and milk teas, served ice cold or piping hot, with cherry natural tapioca balls that you suck up through a big fat straw.

It was invented in the early 1980's in Taiwan and later spread to other Asian countries.

Dr Bubbles Chai Specialist is a popular chain that serves its trademark Bubble Tea, to which they gave a makeover by adding fruit jelly and fruit poppers to the milk and fruit tea, to suit the Indian taste.
Green tea is passé: Bubble tea trend is making a splash

The Dr Bubble Chai Specialist Outlet at Mumbai's Hill Road, Bandra, source their ingredients from an array of international location- tapioca from Taiwan, the bubbles from the UK and the jelly from Thailand.

The term bubble refers not to these additions, but to the tiny bubbles in a tea that are formed due to strong movement in a cocktail shaker. This Taiwanese street staple specialty is made with varied base - green tea, masala tea, black tea and also milk variants.

Latest addition to it is the bubble coffee, which is an amalgamation of beautiful flavours, with the base of a green coffee. Bubble Coffee is not roasted, contains no caffeine and is not at all bitter.