It’s all about the boba at Atulea in Capitol Hill. Photograph by Amber Fouts.
The squishy texture—known in Chinese as “QQ”—of the tapioca pearls. The revitalizing sweetness of the tea. Even the satisfying act of slurping it all up through a fat straw. This is the endorphin-releasing rush that comes from drinking boba tea, also known as pearl milk tea and bubble tea.
The Taiwanese beverage was invented in the 1980s and continues to evolve stateside with new flavors, toppings, and forms: milk teas, fruit teas, cheese teas, smoothies, and slushes, not to mention the boba, jelly, fruit, pudding, ice cream, and other toppings that accompany them. Herein our, by
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