Talk:Bubble tea
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Name of article
"Pearl milk tea" is much more common than "Boba milk tea" (1,680 v. 238) on google. --Jiang
However, "Boba tea" returns 1270 hits. RickK 07:41 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Aren't the commonly used black pearls made out of taro root instead of cassava, and hence aren't tapioca? --68.77.122.61 12:58, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I moved the article to "bubble tea". Everyone I know calls it "bubble tea"; furthermore, a Google search for "bubble tea" returns 40300 results, far more than for any of the other names above. —Lowellian | Talk 18:24, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
- Interesting. Well, no one I know ever refers to it as "bubble tea". Most people I know refer to it as "pearl tea" or "pearl milk tea". Sometimes I hear people call it "Boba". BTW, I live in NorCal. — J3ff 23:28, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I take offense when Google counts are used as a source of reverence like this. Like it's mentioned in many article discussions, Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. The articles describe facts, not usage. As for the actual name, it's like debating if tofu or bean curd is the proper name for an Asian soy food. They're both correct and approximately interchangeable. What you use for the name is more of a reflection of how mentally close you are to Asia.
Literal meaning
are you sure that boba properly translates to "dominatrix of balls"? dominatrix is the feminine form of dominator. i don't think that's a proper translation. boba does refer to the texture of women's breasts though. -j3ff
- I don't believe so either. To me, it just means "busty", as in describing huge female breasts, maybe like those possessed by overweight women or just silicon-enhanced. :o) --Menchi 10:39, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Regardless of correctness, it sounds obscene to me (as written here). --24.226.28.65 03:36, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Photo request
May we have a photograph please? -- Kaihsu 19:47, 2004 Aug 1 (UTC)
- Nope.
Inconsistency in terminology used
This article is inconsistent with respect to the terminology that it uses to refer to bubble tea; this is most apparent in the Availability section where both "boba" and "pearl milk" is used and "bubble tea" is not. Also, "bubble tea shop", "bubble tea lounge", and "bubble tea house" are more commonly used than "bubble tea café" AFAIK. I suggest that the Taiwan-centric terminology be made secondary to the North American/English.
--UTSRelativity 03:27, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Passing fad
I reside just north of a predominantly pan-Chinese immigrant neighborhood (a new so-called "Chinatown" in the suburbs, so to speak). A number of mom-and-pop boba beverage stores have frequently come and gone in the area and the major chains currently dominate. Tough business. Could this be "McDonaldization"? Could boba be a passing fad as well?
How popular is this stuff really? There's even a boba tea place at one of the local malls in jacksonville, florida
- I haven't seen any in the Boston area, not in malls anyway. The stuff is utterly unfamiliar to me. I'll have to take a look the next time I'm in the local Asian superette, though. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:36, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
There is no language called "Mainland Chinese"
Duh! quit following me around and correcting things, Geebus! SchmuckyTheCat 02:40, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- "Overseas Chinese" neither. The reference is not about languages, but peoples and cultures. — Instantnood 07:04, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
Origin Dispute
Though it is acknowledged that the drink originated from Taiwan, there is a dispute on the inventer of the drink reported in News papers. I believe one shop in Taichung disputes with another shop in Tainan claiming the invention of the drink. The current article attributed the invention to one but did not acknowledge the other.Mababa 07:27, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)