Boba on Woodruff Rd, Greenville: milk tea, fruit tea and slushes, explained

Boba, or bubble tea, began in Taiwan in the 1980s: tea shaken with milk and sugar, poured over pearls of tapioca (made from cassava starch) that are soft and chewy. The pearls are the "boba". You drink it through an extra-wide straw so the pearls come up with each sip.

Milk tea is creamy: brewed tea with milk, served with boba. Ours are Classic Milk Tea, Taro Milk Tea, Thai Milk Tea, Matcha Milk Tea, Horchata Milk Tea, White Peach Green Milk Tea, Tiger Stripes and Dirty Mad Tea.

Fruit tea is light and refreshing, with no milk: Lychee Lust, Passionate Love, Mangoficient and Pink Lips.

A slush is blended with ice, like a frozen drink: Mangonada, Strawberry Burst and Sunny Mango. Smoothies are creamier and blended: Purple Patch, Taro Smoothie and Matcha Smoothie.

Taro is a starchy root, and as a milk tea it's creamy, sweet and a little nutty, with a soft purple colour. Our Taro Milk Tea is served with chewy boba. For something thicker, the Purple Patch smoothie blends taro with custard and boba, and there's a Taro Smoothie too.

Popping pearls are little spheres with a thin skin and fruit juice inside that burst when you bite them. Ours are strawberry and passion fruit. Rainbow jelly is soft, chewy cubes of fruit jelly. Tiger Stripes adds coffee jelly to Thai tea.

Thai Milk Tea is the crowd favourite: Thai tea leaves slow-brewed for a rich, malty flavour with hints of spice and vanilla. If you like something sweet and nutty, try Taro; for cinnamon, Horchata Milk Tea. No milk? Pink Lips, our strawberry fruit tea with popping pearls and rainbow jelly.

See every drink, with today's prices, on our boba page.

Dumont Creamery & Café on Woodruff Rd in Five Forks makes boba every day we're open: Mon–Thu 8 am–10 pm · Fri 8 am–11 pm · Sat 10 am–11 pm · Sun 10 am–10 pm.