Chewy pearls.
Unreal flavors.
Your boba place.
Small-batch boba and tea drinks from Hailey, Ketchum and Sun Valley. Tap below to explore today's menu and join rewards.
Our craft
Made with patience.
Served with a big straw.
We don't cut corners. Our tea steeps longer, our pearls simmer slower, and every drink gets shaken by hand. You can taste it. (And chew it.)
Learn our storyHand-cooked pearls
Every morning, small batch, chewy all the way through. No sad gummy pearls here.
Slow-steeped tea
Real leaves, full infusions. Jasmine, oolong, matcha — the good stuff.
Real fruit + syrup
Purees, pulps, and house syrups. No thin neon flavoring on our watch.
A brief (and disputed) history of boba
How a chewy little accident in a Taiwanese teahouse became the drink the whole planet queues up for.
- 1980sTaichung, Taiwan
Born in a teahouse
Iced tea was losing steam against glossy Western coffee chains. In a quiet Taichung teahouse, someone dropped chewy tapioca pearls into a cold milk tea — and people showed up the next day just to drink it again.
- 1988The bubble argument
Two teahouses, one legend
Chun Shui Tang says their product development manager poured tapioca pudding into her iced tea during a staff meeting in 1988. Hanlin Tea Room says they did it first, with white pearls. The debate (lovingly) never ended — and actually went to court. Both lost.
- 1990sCrosses the Pacific
Arrives in Chinatowns
Bubble tea hopscotched across Asia through the '90s, then reached Los Angeles and Vancouver — first in Chinese-American neighborhoods, then in strip-mall cafés with glossy laminated menus and oversized Garfield plushies.
- 2010sThe cult era
Instagram notices
Brown sugar swirls, cheese foam, and neon-lit storefronts turned boba from drink into aesthetic. Late-night chains started opening in college towns. First-time drinkers learned the rule: always chew.
- 2020sGlobal obsession
A multi-billion-dollar sip
Today the global bubble-tea industry is worth tens of billions and still accelerating. The fat straw is its own symbol now — recognizable in every city on earth, from Seoul to Stockholm to… Sun Valley.
- TodayIdaho's turn
The Boba Place
We brought it home: small-batch, hand-cooked pearls, slow-steeped teas, and a mountain-town vibe. Same decades-old magic, now served with a straw wide enough to really deliver the goods.
Did you know
The "bubble" in bubble tea isn't the pearls.
It's the frothy foam on top — the one that forms when you shake iced tea hard enough. The pearls are technically the boba. Which is also Taiwanese slang for… something the pearls kind of resemble. We'll let you Google it.
Find your shop
Two shops. One obsession.
Hailey
Flagship100 Main Street, Hailey, ID 83333
Ketchum / Sun Valley
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