It's like that old adage about "not all rectangles are squares but all squares are rectangles" -- all bubble tea is milk tea, but not all milk tea is bubble tea. Let's start at the very beginning ...

In the case of bubble tea, the beverage commonly gets confused with milk tea. While some people are quick to assume that milk tea and bubble tea are interchangeable terms, this is not the case.

What started as a refreshing cup of bubbly milk tea has continued to evolve. Modern versions include brown sugar boba tea with its trademark tiger stripes, and cheese tea with its foamy cap of ...

The shop will specialize in Thai tea, an orange sherbet-colored beverage made with fragrant red tea and a mixture of condensed milk and evaporated ... a self-proclaimed “boba aficionado ...