Is boba tea a girly thing?

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Was wondering if boba/bubble tea, the Taiwanese cold sweetened tea drink with tapioca balls, is considered a girly drink? I've mostly seen a lot of young women have it in NY and CA, but I'm not sure if it's a female thing or not, since boba tea shops are not places I frequent. Any thoughts by those who do? Are the drinks popular with both sexes in Taiwan, and by young and old?

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Does it matter?

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Yes. :) 

Just kidding.

I think there is a bias, but not so much to the point you would call it a girly thing. You can think of it like salad. There are probably more women enjoy salad than men, but not so much to the point like getting lipstick.

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I am man and enjoy bubble tea!!

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My penis and I have been enjoying boba for close to 20 years.

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Not for this girl. Actually I think my guy friends like bubble tea more then the gal pals.

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I'm a gay man and I like bubble tea. How does that skew your data?

But seriously... the bubble tea place we have here in town (can't think of the name of it) does employee marketing that seems kind of girly in a Hello Kitty kind of way.

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From what I've observed it's popular among both men and women in Taiwan. Although the tea shops sell a variety of drinks (milk tea, bubble tea, fruit tea, fruit juices), so it's a bit hard to see who is drinking what. I live near a police college, and the two tea shops next to it are always crammed with young men with very short hair.

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I see bubble tea shops (which are more often than not cold drink/dessert/snack shops elsewhere) in Hong Kong and Taiwan filled with both male and female. It's more of a young people hangout place.

I enjoy milk tea, fruit juices and other drinks, but I don't care for the bubbles themselves. These stores have existed in the big Asian metropolis' for some time, and well before the boba-explosion.

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I do business in Taiwan relatively frequently and during business meetings, some of the guys regularly show up with Boba Tea for everyone in the hot afternoons. I would have to say it's strictly a cultural thing and not a gender thing at all (at least in Taiwan).

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What if you're transgendered?

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My boyfriend drinks boba much more than I do. In Taiwan, you'll see both genders drinking it. It isn't considered feminine by any means, so drink away!

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Yes, it's a girly drink. A manly man drinks a steak smoothie. Blood rare, of course.

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