Get Your Bubble On
0 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Tuesday, January 6 at Tuesday, January 06, 2009.
Dubai Mall, is there anything you don't have? Once you get past the 33,000 fish swimming in the world's largest acquarium, and Kinokuniya, the Japanese bookstore of unearthly greatness, can you ask for more?
I ask for Bubble Tea. And Dubai Mall delivers!
A fairly solid attempt, reminiscent of the fine bubble teas of many a Chinatown, although a couple of flaws: where's the flavours? I want my green apple, or passinfruit, or "5 Jelly Grass" or whatever other weird Singapore flavour is going down. They only had one flavor here: tea.
Second, isn't half the fun of bubble tea meant to be watching them seal it with that cartoony clear plastic that you pop open with the pointy straw? Serving it up in a frappucino cup seems like missing the point a bit.
But all in all, here's to the best - perhaps the only - bubble tea in the Middle East. It was a fine accompaniment to a long gaze at a school of reef sharks swimming around in the giant aquarium. They looked confused, happy, well fed and massively metaphorical.
I ask for Bubble Tea. And Dubai Mall delivers!
A fairly solid attempt, reminiscent of the fine bubble teas of many a Chinatown, although a couple of flaws: where's the flavours? I want my green apple, or passinfruit, or "5 Jelly Grass" or whatever other weird Singapore flavour is going down. They only had one flavor here: tea.
Second, isn't half the fun of bubble tea meant to be watching them seal it with that cartoony clear plastic that you pop open with the pointy straw? Serving it up in a frappucino cup seems like missing the point a bit.
But all in all, here's to the best - perhaps the only - bubble tea in the Middle East. It was a fine accompaniment to a long gaze at a school of reef sharks swimming around in the giant aquarium. They looked confused, happy, well fed and massively metaphorical.
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