Comments by "xXxSkyViperxXx" (@xXxSkyViperxXx) on "The Milky, Murky Origins of Bubble Tea" video.

  1. "boba" is originally cantonese anyways that people just took the mandarin pinyin writing from. in the philippines, nobody calls it boba still. the popular term to call it is still milk tea or bubble tea or bubble milk tea. the drink utilizing chewy pearls is unsurprising to people since theres always been cold drinks with hard chewy toppings inside for centuries, like grass jelly, sago pearls, and such. the spanish record always utilized romanized hokkien terms to call them and the street vendors were often roving chinese peddlers, such as the likes that sold hot tofu curd in cups, people now call taho itself also from hokkien.
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  2. in the philippines, we dont typically call it as "boba tea" or "bubble tea", although Quickly during the early 2000s did sell it marketing it as "bubble tea". it only took off in popularity the philippines being called as "milk tea", because the concept of having tapioca pearls in your drinks was not particularly special to people in the philippines because we've always had cold drinks with sago pearls in them and in fact in Filipino/tagalog, we call the tapioca pearls as "sago" even tho, its not sago but tapioca. what was surprising to people was the combination of milk and tea as a cold drink lol. there were already cold drinks with sago pearls in the philippines for centuries since the spanish colonial times, such as Gulaman, which in spanish before was called Chanchau, the word itself being from Hokkien 田草 (chhân-chháu, “grass jelly”). grass jelly itself is gooey and chewy like sago pearls and tapioca pearls. centuries ago there were roving street peddlers selling such drinks called chanchaulero and they were in the same class as roving street peddlers that sold tofu pudding we now call taho in the philippines, itself also originally from roving hokkien chinese street peddlers
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  3. it goes way back in the philippines. even during spanish colonial times, there are illustrations of roving chinese street peddlers selling sago and tofu drinks. the spaniards called them chanchaulero, the root itself being from hokkien 田草 (chhân-chháu, “grass jelly”). although tagalog has also called the drink as "gulaman" for centuries, but the tofu pudding drink "taho" also comes from hokkien 豆腐 (tāu-hū, “tofu; bean curd”)
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  4. there is also a strawberry flavored version of that sold in baguio in the philippines
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  5.  @Banom7a  is that cantonese
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  6.  @xenxx1192  hokkien and teochew are definitely siblings, along with hainamese, luichew, and hai lok hong. they were just split into 2 different languages because of provincial boundaries but their core heartlands are basically next to each other in a contiguous coastline
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  7.  @xenxx1192  the word for tofu in both hokkien and teochew is tāu-hū 豆腐, exactly the same, only slight difference with tones depending on which dialect of hokkien and teochew
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