/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11336828
I thought bubble tea was going to be good until i tried in flushing ny. turns out it sucks and not enjoyable to drink at all

>>11338387
well what flavor did you get? theres a giant variance

*blocks your path*

>>11336828
those balls are only good for launching with the straw

>>11338398
Not only is there a giant variance between flavors, but also a giant difference between quality of the sellers as well. (like any other food, really).

One data point is useless for making judgements.

>>11338422
Pleb filter. This is the true patricians drink.

>>11336828
The tapioca balls are tasty, those watery ones makes me gag tho.

Never had boba, is it crap or good? There's a lot of places here that sell it.

>>11339728
Depends.

>>11339728
I don't know if it's pleasant, but it's pretty shit nutritionally. Tapioca is one of the lowest protein foods in existence. There's a little over a gram in 2000 calories of it.

>>11339728
it's just a sugary drink with gummy balls in it

>>11338438
This garbage tastes like tv static

>>11336828
>it's just 2004, "cough cough"

>>11339777
checked, it really depends on where you go and what you order, a lot of places allow you to determine how sweet you want it. I went to a local place and ordered a thai tea boba thing and it had no added sugar at all. Which sucked because I was expecting candy juice.

>>11339728
Really depends on what you like and the quality of the places you go to

>>11339803
QOTD

>>11339803
>mommy mommy another spoon of sugar please!

The little explody liquid filled balls are good as fuck but the tapioca balls are absolutely disgusting, like little snot balls and they're so damn filling. Also always get cold blended and stick with the fruity flavors, they're typically better

>>11336828
Garbage chink swill

>>11339749
who gives a shit tho. you arent drinking boba for the protein content lol

>>11336828
Get a bubble tea from somewhere that makes it like a smoothie with ice. The milky overly sweet weak tea you posted is only one side of the spectrum of bubble tea. My gf is huge into bubble tea and she's picky about where it's from because most places don't do it right

also lychee>coconut>green tea>all other flavors

>>11340304
taro smoothie + lychee

i fucking love boba, it's delicious
i used to be meh on it but then i had the tapioca balls one time too many and now i'm fucking hooked
the best flavor is thai milk tea hands fucking down

>>11336828
my favourite is oreo flavour

>>11338438
Enjoy your cockroach pesticides

>>11336828
I don't care what kind of basic level white bitch this makes me, I love that shit

>>11340399
fake and gay. kys you'reself

>>11336828
>$8

>>11338387
Maybe it's because you haven't tried it in Asia? There's heavy competition here so it's pretty nice when they're all competing for price and taste

>>11340431
in what world, what the fuck?
they cost like $1.5 to $2 maximum

>>11336828
mango or blueberry are usually good, but i like royal milk tea with boba or chai with boba

>>11339803
epic r*ddit meme

>>11340431
dumb weeb poster

>>11338387
Holy fuck this. Ordered it with my delivery one time and I ended up dumping out over half of it. Shit's vile.

>>11340481
lol. Literally nowhere. Try again fagit.

Peach oolong with aloe vera, 25-30% sweet and no ice.

>>11340481
be realistic, 2.50 to 4

>>11340481
They're normally $6 where I live.

>>11340715
>>11340846
>>11340972
what the hell, maybe I should move to america and open up a boba tea shop if you guys are getting swindled this hard and still paying for it

>>11339899
>>11338438
Why drink a downgraded version of water potentially exposed to literal rat poison just for the thrill of having carbonation against your tongue? I'll stick with tap water, thanks.

>>11341547
It's reverse osmosis filtered and I'm too helpless to get my own system.

>>11341557
For a little under $8k you can get a well dug out in your front yard for an instant upgrade in how your tap water tastes that will last a lifetime.

>>11341344
chances are that the ingredients are so expensive you'll have to charge at least $4 if you want to break even

it's not really a matter of getting swindled, it's basic economic theory

>>11341564
My RO system costs me as much per year than Comcast charges your mom each month, and that's assuming she's not stupid enough to pay for tv.

>>11341565
The ingredients are dirt cheap. Most of the cost is just having the shop and labor there.

why is it so expensive?

>>11340474
Flushing is basically Asia.

>>11341564
>drinking ground water
>thinking it’s better than tap

Enjoy your ground water laced with heavy metals and other industrial runoffs

>>11340431
Yeah Kung Fu tea has the best one so far consistentely and it’s like 8$ iirc for a large

>>11340490
I’ve only tried blueberry once and it’s mediocre.

plebs

the best flavour is clearly taro

>>11341821
Potato aint a flavor.

>>11341802
Mediocre?

>>11341829
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediocre

Correct tier is
Milk>Green>Cocoanut>Taro>Other fruit flavors

>>11341564
Depends on where you live since a lot of municipal water districts forbid private wells and well drillers won't violate that since they're required to report all wells dug to the state. I don't know where you came up with $8,000, I had mine dug for $2500.

>>11341623
You know for a nominal charge you can have your well periodically tested, yea?

>>11341344
How else are we supposed to pay our workers a livable minimum wage of $15 an hour? :^)

>>11340304
Looks like one of those huge mugs of semen from the japanese porns. Probably why you and your gf love it so much.

>>11342087
you tell them cletus

>>11341547
Because drinking just water and coffee all day every day gets boring and something fizzy that has no sugar or artificial sweeteners is nice. Also I'm not poor so cost isn't an issue. Not sure why you gotta lie about the rat poison part though. Doesn't make you have a better argument.

>>11338387
Out of maybe 10 bubble tea shops you'll find a good one. It fucking blows.

>>11342904
I bet you'd like it more without the tea, fatty.

>>11338387
Was it Kung Fu tea? I find that they're variable with quality. Usually very good but sometimes it tastes a little off. I think plain is the best flavor to try first but also matcha if you like green tea and taro is very good if you're into that kinda flavor profile. But some will hate it

>>11342544
>lie about the rat poison
I didn't, I said 'potentially' which doesn't mean 'definitely', not to mention it was a minor detail that didn't really add much to what I was saying. Also how much of an autist do you have to be to have a demand for your drinks to be fun? Do you have an oral fixation or something?

>>11338428
that's what makes it so good. the balls also stick to surfaces if you shoot them hard enough

>>11341853
Literally no point in testing the groundwater if you live near industrial agricultural fields, your well water is guaranteed to be tainted and overpaying some whitey to tell you that the water is """safe""" even though he doesn't have to chronically drink it and even though certain pesticides and other industrial chemicals aren't even tested for is full blown retardation. I even have a friend nearby whose family drinks well water and he and all of his siblings are deformed as shit. So kill yourself faggot

>>11336828
bubble tea bar is also a vendor of overpriced, shitty ""lomography"" cameras