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The menu is also huge, so you can always try something new. Sarah: One thing I love about Chatime is that it’s right by the beach, so you can take your drink and walk by the water. This cute little café right by the beach is a great spot to refresh before soaking in some sunshine this summer. I think OneZo is my pick as Kelowna’s best. It’s got some tartness from the fresh passionfruit seeds and pulp, and I really enjoyed it. Stephen: I got the orange passion green tea, and it was refreshing. Sarah: Yeah, they really play with texture here, I got the Totaro milk tea with purple tapioca and it has crushed up taro in it which makes it gritty and creamy at the same time. They have a variety of colours and flavours of tapioca, and the texture is incredible. Stephen: Yeah, but their homemade tapioca definitely makes up for it. Sarah: So, looking at the menu, it’s smaller than other bubble tea cafes in Kelowna, but they’ve always got seasonal drinks posted online and in the café. When I told friends that I was going to try different bubble tea places in Kelowna, they all told me to go here. But they do have a rewards program, so that’s cool. Stephen: That’s true, and the price at Formosa is usually higher. Sarah: One thing about Formosa is that I find the tapioca is a little firmer than other places in Kelowna, which isn’t bad, I just like my tapioca on the softer side. Formosa’s flavours are solid and reliable, so there was no surprise that this was a good drink. Stephen: I had the blended watermelon with half tapioca and half lychee. It’s a great energy booster for the mid-afternoon blahs, since you’re getting caffeine from the matcha and the coffee. Sarah: Yeah, I tried a Formosa special drink, the matcha café au lait. I find their menu looks deceptively smaller than some other’s, but they often have specials posted on the walls. I think they are one of the first major players in Kelowna. Stephen: Formosa was all I knew for the longest time. This is the top-rated bubble tea café in Kelowna, so let’s see if the hype is real.

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This week I took my boyfriend out to try four well-known bubble tea cafes in Kelowna, and we are full of tapioca and opinions. In some locations, vegan options are also available for the health-conscious Scandinavians.I am a sucker for bubble tea. For instance, secondary toppings such as coconut jelly, aloe vera, fruit bubbles, konjac are taking central stage in the menu and display. In Denmark, many vendors have localized the taste, adding more locally accepted varieties. In Taiwan, you can choose how sweet, and how much ice, and how large the ice cubes, as well as the size of the toppings your bubble tea is or has. Other popular options would be a combination of fruit flavors such as apple, peach, lemon etc, with different types of tea, eg green, oolong, black tea, white tea, topped with different sizes of tapioca pearls. The quintessentially classic would be milk-tea with tapioca toppings, whose namesake (The literal translation of the most typical bubble tea is Pearl-Milk Tea) is synonym for all bubble teas. The drink is then typically topped with tapioca ‘pearls’. To make bubble tea, the tea is shaken with ice to form a foamy layer of bubbles (like in a cocktail shaker, but of course nowadays everyone uses a machine).

I remember it was such a huge sensation in the 90s in Hong Kong and now it is part of the native street food culture there.Īlmost 20 years later, bubble tea has finally pinned itself on the Copenhagen map.

Originated from Taiwan during the 80s, bubble teas have gained its popularity in other parts of the world, especially South East Asia. Recently, bubble tea seems to be trending in Copenhagen as we see more of these Taiwanese inspired drink vendors popping up around the city, and folks lining up for a sip of this special drink.