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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...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Bay Area's only boba factory sees a sign of hope to end its shortage, though it's not over yet As news travels about boba supply issues, shops and customers are racing to stock up FacebookTwitterEmail Matcha tea and milk tea are seen with boba, chewy tapioca pearls.Getty Images The lack of boba is starting to feel dire at Boba Bliss, a small family-owned operation in Dublin. The shop’s supplier stopped delivering boba weeks ago because of supply-chain issues and instituted purchase limits, so family members have been driving around the East Bay every d...

Bubble tea shortage hits US, could last for several months: report By Ann W. Schmidt Bubble tea from Chatime. (Randy Risling/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Bubble tea is following in the footsteps of garden gnomes, ketchup and toilet paper. That’s right, there’s another shortage in the U.S. Bubble tea, a drink that includes a layer of tapioca balls, or boba, at the bottom, originated in Taiwan but has become a popular drink around the world. However, companies are seeing delayed shipments of boba, as well as the key ingredient used to make it, tapioca starch, according to recent reports....

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Bubble tea is following in the footsteps of garden gnomes, ketchup and toilet paper. That’s right, there’s another shortage in the U.S. Bubble tea, a drink that includes a layer of tapioca balls, or boba, at the bottom, originated in Taiwan but has become a popular drink around the world.  However, companies are seeing delayed shipments of boba, as well as the key ingredient used to make it, tapioca starch, according to recent reports. Those delays are causing a shortage and even U.S.-based boba producers wi...

Where's all the boba? Bay Area shops are running out of tapioca pearls FacebookTwitterEmail Boba shops, such as the popular Boba Guys, are about to see a shortage of its signature ingredient, tapioca pearls.Allie L. via Yelp Fans of boba tea prepare yourselves: A tapioca pearl shortage is on the horizon. A number of bubble tea shops and suppliers in the Bay Area and across the country are being affected by a dwindling supply of those signature, chewy tapioca pearls that make up boba tea. And there are varying answers on just how long that shortage will last. The issue was first highlighted by...