Tapioca is a big enough social phenomenon at this juncture to both have its own verb form — tapiru, to go out for tapioca drinks — and for that verb to then be nominated as one of the definitive ...

But then she had been to a boarding school, and, as The Oxford Companion to Food notes of this member of the family of British milk puddings: “It is sometimes despised by the ignorant, that is to say ...

Ever since the tapioca milk tea craze hit Japan, the thirst for boba balls has grown to include weird and wonderful creations like tapioca beer, bubble tea ramen and boba ice cream bars. Now it’s time ...

Perhaps it is a sign of Japan’s declining population, but people nowadays are not lining up at restaurants and food shops as much as they used to. That is, unless it is for bubble tea. Late in the ...