CHICAGO (AP) -- What's that floating in your beverage? If your drink is bubble tea, it's likely a tapioca ball. Bubble tea can be made with fresh fruit or flavored tea. It can be sweetened with sugar ...

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, ...

Shipping delays are keeping some tea shops from getting the ingredients needed to make bubble tea, marking the latest pandemic-caused shortage. Bubble tea is a popular Taiwanese milk tea drink that ...

At Chun Shui Tang teahouse in central Taiwan’s Taichung City, the perfect cup of bubble tea is boiled down to a science. A tea barista fills a tall glass with black tapioca pearls 2 inches from the ...

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