The short version
We're Anika and Jay. We met at a boba shop in Kensington Market in 2021 and quickly bonded over the fact that we were both spending way too much money on bubble tea. At one point, Anika was hitting four different shops a week trying to find one that got the pearl texture right.
In early 2023, we started experimenting at home. Ordering pearls from Taiwan, testing different tea varieties, figuring out the right sugar ratios. After about two months of trial and error (and a lot of mediocre batches), we cracked it. The pearls were perfect. The tea was actually good.
Our friends went crazy for it. And then their friends asked if they could buy kits. So we put together some boxes, set up a website, and Bobabox was born.