Bologna: here is where to enjoy the Taiwanese drink made with tea, milk and tapioca pearls
Who said that Bologna is a city that is refractory to new trends in gastronomy? The capital of Emilia is no longer just tortellini and tagliatelle. Bologna allows itself to be colonized by new trends: ramen, bibimbap, poke … and even bubble tea.
The Taiwanese-based drink tea, milk and tapioca pearls (later flavored and enticed in the most disparate ways, from fruit jellies to the aroma of taro) it landed in Italy a few years ago. After the first timid steps in Milan, he has now also conquered Bologna. Where it is now normal to see teenagers of all nationalities shoot with colored bibitons in their hands.
In addition to the places we discovered (and tried!) We also received qbiQ Pokeria & Bubble Tea, which combines Hawaiian and Taiwanese cuisine, and Green Cafe, inside the Mercato delle Erbe, where you can drink bubble tea by munching on chicken wings .
Here 6 addresses where to drink bubble tea in Bologna
Café of the Academy
One of the most beloved bars in Bologna. In a slightly fané atmosphere, with the background music of local songwriters, you can have breakfast, a quick lunch break … or a snack with bubble tea. From a year to the historic owner, there is a Chinese management, and the two souls, cappuccino and Taiwanese tea, coexist perfectly.
Koi
Koi Fashion Health Food: a challenging name for this little street in via Petroni, in the heart of the university area, which offers lesser known Asian specialties (they say they refer directly to Hong Kong cuisine), such as langya potatoes, sago pudding or indeed the milk tea.
Ing Boba Tea
Boba tea is another name for the bubble tea. In this little shop you can choose from many customizations of your drink: the type of tea, the "solid" part – coconut jelly, tapioca pearls, red beans… – temperature, milk and much more (does anyone want to try the cream cheese topping?). Abstain from eternal indecision.
Latthè
Opened in 2014, the restaurant in Via Nosadella was one of the first, if not the first one the first, bubble tea shop to inaugurate in the city. Of authentic Asian, in the management and in the menu, there is little: one of the must of the menu is the ‘Cappucciotto’ with milk whipped and flavored in various ways. But we're here to have fun and drink something sweet, not to be a philologist, right?
Trix Tea
Another super popular address for drinking bubble tea in Bologna. A few steps from the station we find bubble tea in all its flavors – including several 'special' with coconut. They have also recently added to the menu bubble waffle, waffles with giant bubbles to fill with fruit and ice cream. Because let's face it: there are never enough absurd Asian trends. Especially when they raise their blood sugar.
Flos Bubble Tea
This is the place that has definitively cleared bubble tea in Bologna. Its very central location, Via Caduti di Cefalonia, has meant that the sweetened powdered milk, gummy balls of tapioca and tea appeared in many of the selfies taken in Piazza Maggiore. A celebration of multiculturalism, in the kitchen and beyond.
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