Sago is what Boba or Bubble tea was originally named.
By
rorqualmaru
on April 26, 2008
I was drinking it back in the Seventies in the Philippines and it was a much simpler drink back then. The "tapioca" (Carrageenan really) pearls were smaller and whitish. The drink itself was made by boiling brown sugar and water with banana leaves for the aromatics and then flavored with vanilla. I much prefer this but no one who makes Boba tea makes this anymore. It's most likely still made in PI but I haven't been back in more than a decade.
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Interesting. I'd like to make that myself. The only thing hard to find might be the pearls.
Hmm. I wish I could unvote.
Proof? I'm not entirely convinced that bubble tea directly originates from Sago.
Finding a history of bubble tea is difficult and what I can find is highly questionable. Some guy in Taiwan "invented" something I was drinking in the seventies and existed long before that? I don't think so.
Or China! Or perhaps Maya.
Really, without any sort of evidence, this is unprovable. There might be similarities, but given the nature of coincidence and food development, that isn't even all that significant.
Looking into the origins of a food product takes more time and money than I'm willing to devote to it. It's apocryphal but I was there and I know what I consumed. The name Boba didn't even make it's way into the vernacular until the late Eighties.
And do you mean Malaysia? Mayans making sago pearls seems a bit farfetched. Sounds to me like you're disagreeing just to be ornery.
Really, it was thousands of years ago. You can't know for certain.