Urth Caffe: Boba Tea, Reviewed

Today I tried a Boba Tea (bubble tea) from Urth Caffe for the very first time. It is very Southern California/tourist to go to Urth Caffe. My wonderful friend Carolin Lehmann, who is the one who suggested we go there, told me that best YouTube stars in LA go here all the time.

My receipt from the Urth Caffe in Beverly Hills

I ordered said Boba Tea because I saw someone else order it and it looked cool. Also it was hot AF out. The one I ordered was an "organic Moroccan mint iced boba tea with matcha, blended" and it looked something like this:

Amaze balls

The peppermint iced tea looked, had the texture of, and and tasted like ice cream/a milkshake/a frappé. Except for the color, the matcha was subtle and it worked. The drink was delicious!!! Highly recommend. I was excited to try the Boba Tea too because I had no idea what the tapioca balls at the bottom would taste or feel like - I thought they would be like those colorful flavored balls that you can put on top of your frozen yogurt, or like instant tapioca. I was wrong on both counts.

Minty drinks- Peppermint Boba Tea and a Mocha Mint espresso drink that I didn't catch the name of but was very smooth and rich. The Boba Tea straw is massive so that you can suck up the tapioca pearls with it.

This was my face when drinking my Boba Tea:

Carolin and I with our minty iced drinks from Urth Caffe! (I feel so bad for throwing away the cup but I didn't have anywhere to compost it or recycle it this afternoon)

 
This was such a great drink! Would definitely get it again. But it was weird. The tapioca pearls were chewy and flavorless. It must be a different kind of tapioca than used in instant tapioca pudding and fro-yo stores. The blended peppermint iced tea was sweet and refreshing. The combination of milkshake and tapioca, strange but not unpleasant, I can best describe as chewing and drinking gum at the same time.

Via Know Your Meme

The takeaway:
This drink was good. The flavors were good. The tapioca was weird but that's why I wanted to try it in the first place and it added an interesting textural element to the blended iced tea.
I will try a different flavor of Boba Tea next time and see what I think. Also I want to eat at Urth Caffe next time I go there, too. It all looked so yummy. Will revisit for sure.