Sweet but faint black tea taste mixed in with milk meets caramel, jelly-gelatin tapioca pearls. Sipped through a wide, extra long straw from a tall, wide cellophane-sealed cup. Whether you call it boba milk tea, bubble tea or pearl tea, the growth of popularity for this drink is ever-apparent in little ol’ Eugene. Here’s your breakdown of boba, milk tea and (almost) everything in between.