bubble tea or Boba has been taken the World by storm over the last decade bubble tea originated
here in Taiwan in the 1980s actually by mistake and today we're going to be going
to the same Cafe where it was invented and trying the world's first bubble tea I love
tea Dylan not so much so let's see if we can convert him. good morning from Taichung here in
central Taiwan where the world's first Bubble Tea Cafe is located Taichung is the
second most popular city in Taiwan and the word Taichung actually means Central Taiwan to get to
Taichung it's only about a one hour ride on the high-speed rail from the capital of Taiwan Taipei
yes, two please.
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we've now sat down in I'm gonna have to read this 'Chun Shui Tang Siwei' the original store it's now become a chain but this
is the OG place for bubble tea so we obviously had to come here and this place is about a 20 minute
walk from the Taichung train station which is another half an hour away by train from the Taichung
high speed rail station this place is very chill but super vibey we came here quite early it
opens at 8am it's now around 9 A.M and it's really filling up already there's loads of couples seats
just in here next to the water feature which is super super cute it looks very rustic so, let's get some boba
Got the menu, it is categorically massive and quite a lot of places in Taiwan give you menus like this where you
can just tick anything you want which makes it a lot easier this huge piece of paper just to do that!
time to order some bubble tea I have to say it looks absolutely
incredible but will it taste as good as it looks [Music]
I didn't think it would be a whole pint! oh my goodness.
okay wow we can share this one and we'll share the other one I don't know how big the hot one will be it's heavy
I feel like I'm at the pub
this feels bigger than a pint it's very heavy it is heavy so my wrist is like I don't
know about that okay this is much calmer in size are there bubbles in there then? should I check? there's
more in there. wait this whole thing is filled I thought that was extra water but it's more bubble
tea nowadays most people have their bubble tea served cold but originally it came warm bubble tea
was actually invented by mistake when a lady who owns this chain. Ms Lin Hsui Hui. she basically put her tapioca
pudding in her tea and there was invented the Taiwanese bubble tea this drink that we've
got here comes by a few different names we've got Taiwanese bubble tea pearl tea or just simply Boba
now Boba is the name or the tapioca pearls here at the bottom and apparently it's also Chinese
slang for women's breasts what's actually in this drink is a mixture of Taiwanese tea
the tapioca Pearls at the bottom Sugar Cane that's been refined down to be a bit more
Caramel like and then milk or condensed milk or something creamy milk like to make this mixture
apparently according to this specific Cafe perfect amount shaking that you do to the drink before you
pour it out is 33 times now my favorite number is three and 33 and 333. so at least I don't have to
shake anything 333 times if I want to make my own can I just eat some of them yeah it smells good
um the balls [Music] are so small and soft and silky
that is so delicious hot wow it's sweet but what mildly sweet we usually
like things punch in the face sweet but this is not that kind of sweet it's it's toned down
it's mild the tea is really flavorful but it's so creamy and fluffy from the supposed shaking that
they've been doing 33 times and then a Tapioca balls at the bottom are just a nice little like
chew me I don't know how I'm gonna cope with a whole pint of tea but, we can share!
hold on. in the hot drink because the tapioca pearls are better at the bottom and
they've been in warm liquid they're really soft and just kind of fall apart almost a little
bit whereas these ones because they're in a cold liquid they're a little bit more chewy
which is also very delicious this one tastes exactly like this one as you can imagine but
it's still so light fresh milky fluffy the biggest question is probably are you gonna
like it I've never said that I hate tea yeah I always feel like it's just a little bit bland
I like sweet things so this is very sweet so I'm very excited to try this
the tapioca balls are very hard to chew if I was to be a bubble tea drinker I would want this sweeter
but this is way better than any tea I've ever tried in my entire life oh my God there must be
hundreds of tapioca balls in there I think I prefer the cold water oh yeah good job Lin