Original article written by Meenakshi Thakur, The Flavor Bells forwarded by Orbitel.
Source: https://theflavorbells.com/tiger-milk-tea/
“Taiwanese Boba Tea has always been a social drink- a drink of happiness and satisfaction.
Come and find out the truth of your favorite boba drink!”
Marbling Boba Tea is a smooth, sweet, iced milk tea flavored with rich toffee-like muscovado brown sugar syrup and served with chewy black boba pearls. This bubble tea sensation needs no introduction.
There are numerous variations of Bubble tea. Aromatic flower-scented bubble tea, fruity bubble tea, chocolate bubble tea, and whatnot. But this brown sugar boba is still the heart of boba culture.
Marbling Boba Tea is nothing but bubble tea flavored with a dark brown muscovado sugar syrup. It gets its name from the marble-like stripes formed on the glass when the syrup dunked boba is put into it.
The dark brown syrup dunked boba leaves dark stripes along the sides of the glass. When milk is poured into the glass, the stripes become more evident. That is how this bubble tea got its name.
But actually it is hard to make a syrup at home. You need to waste time boiling, and if you have patience to endure a long wait calmly, flavored syrup is not easy to cook.
Even if you can buy flavored syrup at the supermarket, it’s hard to reserve a bottle of syrup just for a cup of boba tea.
In view of customers’ needs, O’s Bubble Marbling Boba Kit has individual packs for everyone. No worries about any inconvenience.
Other Names
Though Marbling Boba Tea is a pretty popular drink, it is called by different names, which usually causes confusion. Let us look into the other names that might be used to refer to Marbling Boba Tea.
- Tiger boba tea. This name is more commonly used in the US.
- Brown sugar pearl milk tea. It uses brown sugar syrup.
- Black tiger milk tea. Such bubble tea uses black tea.
- Black sugar bubble tea. Black sugar ( Kokuto) is the Japanese unrefined brown sugar that is widely used in making tiger bubble tea.
- Green tiger milk tea. Such tea is made with green tea.
- Dirty boba. The dark syrup-smeared glass looks dirty and messy, hence the name, dirty boba.
- Mud flip tea. A popular Japan-based brand name for tiger boba served in sealed glasses, that need to be flipped to make the striped pattern, inherent to tiger boba tea.
- Tiger sugar milk tea. Tiger sugar is a Taiwanese boba chain that is credited with the popularization of tiger Bubble tea
- Other Names: Black bubble tea, Pearl bubble tea, Tiger milk boba, Tiger boba latte
Around the Asian countries and Canada, it is called tiger milk tea, brown sugar milk tea, brown sugar boba, or tiger bubble tea. Whereas in the US, it is usually called Tiger boba or tiger boba tea. This is because bubble tea is called boba in the US.
What does Marbling Boba Tea taste like?
It tastes like a rich iced milk tea with a deep caramelized sweet flavor, coupled with chewy tapioca pearls. So, yes, it is nothing fancy, just a normal bubble tea, but the sugar does wonders here. Not just in terms of appearance. Non-refined sugar, muscovado is used to make a caramel-like syrup, along with the tea dominating the Marbling Boba Tea flavor profile.
It also has a low-lying flavor of typical boba which comes from the black tapioca pearls. Overall Marbling Boba Tea is a sweet iced milk tea, with a caramel-like flavor from brown sugar or muscovado sugar.