SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Can you have too much boba? For one 14-year-old in China, the answer is yes. She had to be hospitalized after more than 100 tapioca balls were found stuck in her stomach. "They're ...

The U.S. is seeing a massive shortage of boba — or bubble tea — as tapioca starch shipments from overseas are delayed due to the recent shipping disaster in the Suez Canal, among other reasons. Tommy ...

A nationwide boba shortage has rippled into Sacramento’s bubble tea shops, threatening to deny them the tapioca pearls customers crave as summer nears. Shipping delays and pileups at West and East ...

Well, they’re not really bubbles, but tapioca pearls mixed into the drink. The problem is there’s not enough tapioca starch, due to shipping delays from Asia. Originally from Taiwan, boba tea, aka ...

As container ships sit anchored off the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland, creating supply bottlenecks, a boba shortage looms for some stores nationwide — and it could last for months. Some ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Can one person have too much boba? In the case of a 14-year-old in China, the answer is yes after doctors reportedly found more than 100 tapioca balls stuck in her belly. The girl was ...

Bubble tea or boba tea (also known as pearl tea) is a Taiwanese tea that has become very popular all around the world in the past few years. Bubble tea is made of tapioca pearls, syrup, tea of your ...

Tapioca is starch obtained from the root of cassava, a plant that mostly grows underground (like a potato). In many parts of the world, it's a food staple. Cassava is a native vegetable of South ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Can one person have too much boba? In the case of a 14-year-old in China, the answer is yes after doctors reportedly found more than 100 tapioca balls stuck in her belly. The girl was ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Can one person have too much boba? In the case of a 14-year-old in China, the answer is yes after doctors reportedly found more than 100 tapioca balls stuck in her belly. The girl was ...