Bubble tea, also called boba tea or pearl milk tea, is gradually making its way across the Green Bay area as its popularity surges. Originating from Taiwan, the beloved drink is named after the black, chewy tapioca pearls, or boba, that sit at the bottom.
You can drink bubble tea with an oversized straw to soak up the tapioca pearls. We admit a lack of objectivity on this topic: We think it s very fun to drink if you can find your favorite flavors of bubble tea.
The beverage can be both tea-based (tapioca pearls in a type of tea) or smoothie-based (tapioca pearls in smoothie.) Green Bay s tea spots serve a wide variety of both.
Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen responded to allegations of racism in an exclusive sit-down interview with KCRA 3 s Stephanie Lin. It s absolutely untrue, said Singh-Allen. They made these ridiculous claims during the campaign and they re rehashing them now. In March, a group calling themselves the Elk Grove Hmong Americans initiated a recall effort against Mayor Singh-Allen. The co-founders of the movement, Mia Foster, Marie Vue, and Sai Vang, are accusing Singh-Allen of making what they consider a racist statement on social media that they say triggered hate against the Hmong community. She called our Hmong system intimidating, said Foster. She doesn t get to generalize about someone else s culture. In the social media post made back in June 2020, Singh-Allen calls out then-Elk Grove mayor Steve Ly, who is Hmong, to acknowledge the patriarchal clan system that is a controlling and intimidating system used to attack and silence local women. I have never said any