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Loose Leaf Tea on the Downtown Long Beach Promenade has been serving milk teas and other boba inspired drinks for almost three years, but like seemingly every boba purveyor in the country, the shop is bracing for a potential shortage of the black tapioca balls that cluster at the bottom of their drinks. - ADVERTISEMENT - The shop uses about 30 six-pound bags of tapioca pearls on a weekly basis and gets shipments about once per week. Right now, the shop has about a one-week supply, according to a manager who identified herself as Maria R. “It’s always scary because we do get our boxes of s...

Print Abby Boeh walked into an Echo Park cafe and ordered her usual: an iced coffee and tea blend with cream and boba. She had politely declined a manager’s suggestion to try seasonal specials like chai tea with fresh taro. For Boeh, the boba — black tapioca balls sucked through a giant straw — are a must, delightfully chewy and so filling that they often serve as her lunch. Yet she may soon have to do without them. A boba shortage is about to hit the nation, throwing aficionados like Boeh into a panic. Advertisement “I don’t even want to think about it,” said Boeh, 32, who vis...

Bay Area Bubble Tea Shops Face Imminent Boba Shortage Plus, Bissap Baobab Oakland has closed, for good this time Share this story . Bubble tea fans, be warned — shops in the Bay Area (and the rest of the U.S.) are facing a boba shortage, due to a massive backlog of shipping containers stuck at ports on the West Coast. The backlog is impacting nearly every product that comes from Asia to the U.S., according to MarketWatch, but the boba shortage is the result of “a perfect storm,” Oliver Yoon, vice president of sales for Boba Direct, told Business Insider. That’s because in addition to...

Skip to main content Boba shortage: Bay Area and the rest of the U.S. may soon have no bubbles for tea FacebookTwitterEmail The U.S. is entering a boba crisis. Shipping containers from Asia are piling up at West Coast ports, delaying the arrival of much of the country’s supply of chewy tapioca balls. Boba wholesalers say their orders of boba just aren’t arriving, and they have no idea when they’ll get them. That means boba tea shops all over the Bay Area — and the rest of the country — are running out of their namesake boba.

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