About Daboba
Real tea, layered milk, and our slow-cooked Honey Golden Pearls — simmered four hours in real brown sugar until they glow. Daboba is the quiet ritual of every afternoon.
Tiger-stripe caramel down a chilled glass, layered with cold milk and crowned with our Honey Golden Pearls. Slow-cooked four hours, every morning.
A bottle of California sun. Whole-fruit Alphonso mango folded through cultured yogurt, set over a bed of golden honey pearls.
Single-origin Alishan oolong, brewed slow and chilled clear. No milk, no sugar — the leaf, naked and amber.
The pearl is the soul of Daboba — not an afterthought, not a topping. Every batch begins as a small pile of starch and ends as a pot of glowing amber jewelry, slow-cooked over four patient hours until they bend instead of break, and chew instead of merely fill.
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The Ritual
Every Daboba atelier follows the same four-step pearl ritual, every morning, before the doors open. It is the only honest way to do this.
Selection
Pearl-grade tapioca starch from Pingtung — graded by hand. No broken beads make it past the counter.
Slow simmer
Bathed for four hours in real muscovado brown sugar. No syrups, no shortcuts, no powders.
Honey rest
Glazed in a warm honey bath until each pearl glows translucent gold and bends instead of breaks.
Service
Spooned to order, never pre-portioned. Always within thirty minutes of the pot.
Our Story & Brand Ethos
Daboba opened in 2018 with a Taiwan-trained crew and a quiet conviction: bubble tea could be brewed like a third-wave coffee, served like a glass of wine, and worn like a small daily ritual. Across every outlet today, in every city we land in, that conviction still pours from every cup.
The House Code
Organic leaves
Alishan, Wuyi Da Hong Pao, Bai Mu Dan — sourced direct from family farms, blended in-house every morning.
Slow craft
Every cup is built by hand. Pearls cooked in small batches, four hours each, every morning, never overnight.
Quiet luxury
No syrups, no powders, no colorings. Just real ingredients in beautiful glass — the way tea was meant to be.
The Full Menu & Pricing
Five families, sixteen everyday cups, and a rotating seasonal codex that changes with the harvest. Prices reflect a 24oz cup; sub honey pearls into any drink for one dollar.
Pearl Milk Tea Signature
House blend · honey pearls
Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea Signature
Tiger stripes · brûléed top
Authentic Milk Tea
Stone-ground assam · whole milk
Japanese Roasted Milk Tea
Hojicha · oat milk option
Grass Jelly Milk Tea
Hand-cut grass jelly · honey pearls
Find a Daboba Near You
From the original 2018 flagship to every newest bar we open, every Daboba around the world is built around the same long counter, the same long pour, and the same long pearl simmer.
Asia
4 ateliers
Europe
1 atelier
Oceania
1 atelier
Voices From Our Community
Tag @daboba with #TakeTimeToChilland your cup might land here next month — printed, tilted, framed, loved.
“I tried it once and it ruined every other boba for me. Real pearls, real tea, real chill.”
Maya · Daboba Regular · @mayatastes
“It’s become my Saturday ritual — oolong, no sugar, headphones in.”
Jin · Daboba Regular · @jin.brews
“The honey pearls actually glow under the light. My students think I’m gatekeeping.”
Andrea · Daboba Regular · @andrea.pours
Take time to chill.
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