NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jiayang Fan, staff writer at The New Yorker, about her piece, "Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict." When Food Is More Than Food: 'Bubble Tea Addict' Writer Jiayang Fan ...

Craving bubble tea? You're in luck: a new business has opened its doors in the neighborhood. Called The Crepe Addiction, the newcomer is located at 5222 De Zavala Road, Suite 328. The Crepe Addiction ...

When bubble tea was first introduced to the West, you could get it only in cheery mom-and-pop shops in big-city Chinatowns and Koreatowns. While Asians and Asian Americans have been drinking bubble ...

Ideal for not only bubble tea, but the BiggieStray is also wide enough for thick milkshakes and smoothies. Taking into consideration that Americans use enough straws to wrap around the Earth 2.5 times ...

What do a sexy Hong Kong icon, a bankrupted entrepreneur and a failed military defense campaign have in common? They all contributed to the rise of bubble tea, the insanely popular Taiwanese drink ...

It takes balls to drink bubble tea. That's why you want to be a bit careful about drinking this popular drink. As reported by Shaoxing News, a news outlet in China, on May 28, a 14-year-old girl ...

Slowly but surely, New York City’s boba scene keeps growing. The craze over tapioca balls bobbing in various tea-based drinks, also called bubble tea, started in Taiwan and various shops have been a ...

Now we want to talk about a delicious beverage that has become a global phenomenon. We are talking about bubble tea. At this point, you can get versions that may or may not actually be tea and may or ...

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