{
 "id": "boba",
 "type": "dish",
 "names": {
  "name": "Boba",
  "aliases": [
   "bubble tea",
   "pearl milk tea"
  ],
  "said": "The newest thing on an old board, usually in a different typeface."
 },
 "region": [
  "socal",
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "course": "drink"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Tea with milk and tapioca pearls, sealed under a film lid and drunk through a fat straw.",
  "story": "Bubble tea came out of Taiwan in the 1980s and spread through Taiwanese and Chinese diaspora communities. American donut shops with Asian-American owners have added it to the board as a second-generation move: a product with a young customer and a better margin than a glazed.",
  "today": "A shop that adds boba is usually adding it beside the donuts, not instead of them."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "socal-pink-box",
   "as": "The board it turns up on.",
   "rel": "style"
  },
  {
   "to": "mochi-donut",
   "as": "The other recent arrival in the same case.",
   "rel": "donut"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-bubble-tea"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-bubble-tea"
  },
  "fields": {
   "names.said": {
    "tier": "tradition"
   },
   "text.story": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "the margin reading is this project's; the Taiwanese origin is cited"
   },
   "text.today": {
    "tier": "inference"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Tea with milk and tapioca pearls, sealed under a film lid and drunk through a fat straw.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "socal",
   "name": "Southern California",
   "state": "CA",
   "note": "Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire; the pink box and roughly a thousand independent shops"
  },
  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "socal-pink-box",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "The Southern California pink box",
   "as": "The board it turns up on.",
   "rel": "style"
  },
  {
   "to": "mochi-donut",
   "type": "donut",
   "name": "Mochi donut",
   "as": "The other recent arrival in the same case.",
   "rel": "donut"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:wp-bubble-tea",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Bubble tea — Wikipedia",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-bubble-tea"
  },
  "text.story": {
   "tier": "inference",
   "note": "the margin reading is this project's; the Taiwanese origin is cited"
  },
  "text.today": {
   "tier": "inference"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "the-counter",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The counter",
   "as": "The recent one.",
   "rel": "dish"
  }
 ]
}