What’s in a Bubble? 台湾名产：珍珠奶茶
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- 创建于 2006年7月19日
- 最后更新于 2024年5月25日
- 发布于 2011年11月22日
- 作者：Mike Lee
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As you suck in through the straw, the sweet taste of cold oolong tea washes into your mouth. Along with it, a small ball of soft jelly lands on your tongue, and you begin chewing on it. Ah, pearls. Bubble teas imply wouldn’t be the same without them. But where do they come from, and what are they made of?
当你用吸管吸入口中，冰凉乌龙茶的甘甜味流进嘴里，同时一小颗柔软富弹性的粉圆落在舌上，你开始咀嚼。啊，珍珠！少了它们，珍珠奶茶就不够地道，但它们源自何处？成分又是什么？
You’ll be happy to learn that bubble tea is a Taiwanese affair. It is believed that the famous drink originated in Taichung in the early 1980s. For a while, a Taiwanese tea shop owner named Liu Han-Chieh had been experimenting with shaken iced tea, which he’d first seen in Japan. One day, he decided to push the envelope and do something even wilder to the traditional drink: he threw in tapioca balls.
你会很高兴的发现珍珠奶茶是台湾的产物，据信这种知名的饮品在1980年代初期源自于台中。有一段时日，台湾一家泡沫红茶店的老板刘汉介，不断研制他在日本首度见到的摇摇冰茶，有一天他决定突破窠臼，大胆颠覆传统饮品：在茶中加入粉圆。
Depending on their ingredients, the color of the pearls varies. The black ones include sweet potato, cassava root and brown sugar. It takes about an hour to make “pearls.” First, they are boiled in water where they expand considerably. After that, they are drained from the water and poured into a sugary solution, ready to be served.
依据成份不同，珍珠的颜色也有差异，黑色的珍珠添加地瓜、树薯粉和砂糖，制程约一小时。首先将粉圆以滚水煮沸，待其大幅膨胀后捞起并将水分沥干，再倒入糖浆浸泡后即可上桌。
Bubble tea didn’t catch on immediately, however. Only in the 1990s, after a Japanese TV show publicized the drink, did it become Asia’s coolest drink. Thanks to Liu’s spark of inspiration, the world is now bubbling with enthusiasm for bubble tea!
然而这种饮品刚问世时并未一炮而红，直到1990年代日本节目广为宣传后，才成为亚洲最酷的饮品。多亏刘先生的灵机一动，如今这股珍珠奶茶热才能在全球沸腾。
−by J. Michael Cole
Vocabulary
单词发音
considerably [kənˋsɪdərəblɪ] adv. 相当大地，非常，颇
publicize [ˋpʌblɪ͵saɪz] v. 宣传
spark [spɑrk] n. 迹象，痕迹
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单词发音
wash [wɑʃ] v. 流过
affair [əˋfɛr] n. 事情，事，事件
push the envelope 挑战极限 to move beyond the limit of what has usually been done or was the accepted standard
tapioca [͵tæpɪˋokə] n. 树薯粉，木薯淀粉
cassava [kəˋsɑvə] n. 树薯；树薯粉
drain [dren] v. 排出（液体）