SILVERDALE — Dang Nguyen, now living in Renton, first knew Happy Lemon when he visited a location of the worldwide bubble tea brand in the Bay Area some years ago. The store in California was always ...

Happy Lemon, a Taiwan-based boba tea company, has made its way to North Texas, landing in Richardson, with two more locations in Hurst and Fort Worth and another slated for Plano. They’re famous for ...

Kristie Hang is a born-and-raised Angeleno who has been covering the Los Angeles food scene for nearly 15 years. She was once known for double-fisting two large boba drinks daily in grad school — ...

When bubble tea was first introduced to the West, you could get it only in cheery mom-and-pop shops in big-city Chinatowns and Koreatowns. While Asians and Asian Americans have been drinking bubble ...

As much a textural marvel as a refreshing drink, bubble tea is one of Taiwan’s most renowned cultural exports. The eponymous ‘bubbles’ aren’t the result of carbonation, but a pile of chewy, sweet, ...

While bubble tea (also known as boba) originated in Taiwan during the late 1980s, the crave-able drink has become a serious crowd-pleaser in many countries, the U.S. included. And what’s not to love?