A Southern California City Has a Boba Trail to Quench Visitors’ Thirst

Vino trails — sorry, but your days are over! There’s now a whole new beverage that’s worth following. It’s called boba tea, and it’s everything fans of big-strawed beverages might want. While many cities in the U.S. have locations offering this delicious beverage, a whole new place emerges as a must-visit destination for tea lovers. That destination is Pasadena, which boasts 30+ bubble tea locations.

Origin of the Boba Tea

What’s the origin of this amazing Asian-American tea? Food historians have traced it back to somewhere in the 1980s in the nation of Taiwan. The term ‘boba tea’ is typically used on the West Coast, with people living on the East Coast referring to the drink as “bubble tea.” It was a huge thing in Asian cultures back then. Not surprisingly, it’s still booming today.

The trend finally caught up with the West in the 1990s when the first bubble teas were brought to the USA. Since then, communities like Hacienda Heights and Rowland Heights in east Los Angeles have been prominent bubble tea locations.

Taste Boba Tea in Pasadena

Now, visitors to Pasadena can enjoy the newest trends in boba tea. There are various shops that give tea lovers a chance to taste cheese foam-topped bubble teas with hues of butterfly pea and purple. Others offer this Taiwanese-American beverage with fluffy Japanese pancakes.

The subculture of Asian Americans has boba tea written all over it. Young individuals grew up around bubble tea shops along with study groups, drank them on first dates, and had them when playing board games with friends.

The “boba generation” matures, and so does the culture of the beverage. In Pasadena, just like in some other locations, the drink is now offered in specialty shops that sell artisan-level beverages crafted with specially selected and handmade ingredients. Even the tea is sourced from special and premium regions nowadays. That way, Americans can get the absolute best of that incredible and delicious beverage.