I love a good boba (or bubble) smoothie after a big bowl of pho or a banh mi. There’s something so fun about sucking up cold, sweet smoothie and finding those little tapioca pearls capriciously ...

It’s a common question to ask, and the answer almost always seems to be “yes” – at least within the hip LA culture. What started out as a simple sweet tea served with tapioca pearls in Taiwan quickly ...

If the boba’s black, turn your back. That’s what we learned after speaking with Jack Hsiao and Wei-Chih “Wei” Kao, co-owners of the Lone Tree location of Latea, one of the many boba tea shops that ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – Boba tea shops in the Bay Area and fans of the popular drink are scrambling amid an impending nationwide shortage of tapioca pearls that may last weeks, possibly longer. "So a lot ...

Fans of boba tea prepare yourselves: A tapioca pearl shortage is on the horizon. A number of bubble tea shops and suppliers in the Bay Area and across the country are being affected by a dwindling ...

Without enough workers to unload shipping containers, the pandemic has caused another shortage of products: boba pearls used to make bubble tea. Now there is a national shortage of boba, the dark, ...

Starbucks is testing two beverages "made with coffee pearls" at two stores. The pearls are being added to two coffee-based iced drinks, a spokesperson told Insider. The drinks look similar to bubble ...