Let's get started!

Hey friends 👋

To kick off Boba Notebook, I’ll briefly introduce myself and give an overview of what I hope this site to be.

My name is Jeff (cue that one scene in 22 Jump Street), and I’m a 25-year-old Chinese-American living in Seattle. I like pop music, overusing parentheses and emoji, not peeing in the shower, and most importantly (at least in the context of this site) I LOVE anything to do with food and boba tea.

This site will be devoted to trying to nail down every aspect of making great boba tea through tons of experimentation. If you’ve visited Serious Eats or seen Bon Appetit’s new Making Perfect series, you already know the gist.

To start off, here are some of the things I hope to answer:

• What types of teas make good milk tea?
• What type of milk is best?
• What are the right ratios?
• What’s the best container for boba tea?
• And much more!

In addition, I’ll have “Boba Guide” pages that detail my current best practices, and I’ll edit these pages based off the results of my experiments.

I'll try my best to make my pictures look good, but at the end of the day my focus is going to be on perfecting boba and not the eye candy. Hope you learn something, and enjoy!