Food trends highlight pearl-shaped items like caviar, finger limes, and boba, adding playful textures and flavours to culinary experiences worldwide.

The K-pop-themed boba tea menu at Bubble Pop Tea in Fresno sits below a cloud of cotton on the ceiling and above a purple script mural that covers the wall of the shop. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ...

Leafly Boba Bar will begin serving March 29 at Parkside’s Urban Supply in Birmingham. The Huntsville-based boba tea brand will open its location at 1227 First Ave. S., Unit 105, at 11 a.m. The first ...

The shop offers a variety of classic milk, flavored and slush teas. Flavors for the milk tea include matcha, coconut, earl grey, toffee, vanilla chai and more. The shop also sells pastries ...

Munchi Mochi, an anime themed café with mochi doughnuts and boba tea, held its grand opening on March 12 at 37 Kirkwood Ct. SW. The new doughnuts take mochi, a Japanese rice cake, and turns it ...

Tiny sphere-shaped foods seem to be everywhere, entertaining mouths with their pop-ability and the sometimes unusual transformation of familiar foods.

Laura Dickinson ldickinson@thetribunenews.com Sweet Reef Boba and Taiyaki’s new location is at 845 Embarcadero, Suite I, where Daisy’s Organic Coffee & Tea was before it closed in December.

Boba tea is usually sweet and creamy ... Messino makes balsamic pearls and also lemon pearls, filled with real lemon juice, and pomegranate pearls. Tartuflanghe turns truffle juice into truffle ...

Look for them at specialty stores or online. Boba and boba tea (also known as bubble tea) have been around since the 1980s, introduced from Taiwan and now taking the world by storm. Boba pearls ...