Boba4T is the product line of BoboQ in Berlin, Europe's first bubble tea brand, running since 2005. We are the official Nordic distributor, with stock in Malmö. The full range is around 200 products, which is overwhelming when you are writing your first order, so here is how the range actually breaks down and what each family does in the cup. Everything below is in the Boba4T collection with prices listed.
Base teas
Every drink starts with brewed tea. The core four are jasmine green, assam black, oolong and earl grey. Jasmine green carries most fruit teas, assam black is the backbone of classic milk tea, oolong gives a darker, roastier milk tea, and earl grey works in both directions. Tea is the cheapest ingredient per cup and the one customers taste most, so brew it properly: measured leaf, measured water, timed steep, and into an 8 L thermos bucket for the day.
Syrups
The syrup range covers more than 26 flavors, packed as 2.5 kg bottles, 6 bottles to a carton. Fruit syrups plus jasmine green tea make the whole fruit tea side of a menu: passion fruit, mango, lychee, peach and so on. One 2.5 kg bottle is roughly 60 to 80 drinks depending on your dosing, so a carton of one flavor lasts a while. This is where menus grow, since a new flavor is one bottle away.
Powders
Powders come as 1 kg bags, 12 bags per carton. They split into flavor powders (taro, matcha, chocolate, and a range of fruit flavors) that are shaken into milk drinks, and whipping powders used to make the salted cream tops that sit on cheese tea and cream-top drinks. Taro and matcha are the two that most shops cannot skip. Powder drinks need a hard shake or a shake machine, otherwise they go lumpy.
POP BALL popping boba
Popping boba are juice-filled spheres that burst in the mouth. POP BALL comes in 3.2 kg buckets, 4 buckets per carton, and is ready to serve straight from the bucket with no cooking. That makes it the easiest topping in the range to run: open, scoop, done. Popular flavors are mango, strawberry, lychee and passion fruit. An open bucket keeps in the fridge for a couple of weeks, so it also suits low-volume days better than fresh tapioca does.
Jellies and toppings
Crystal ball jelly is a clear, chewy sphere with a lighter bite than tapioca. Nata de coco is firm coconut jelly cut in strips. Grass jelly is a mild, herbal black jelly common in Taiwanese drinks, and red bean is the classic sweet topping for milk teas. All are ready to use from the pack. Two or three of these beside tapioca and popping boba gives a topping menu that covers most customer requests without filling your fridge.
Tapioca pearls
The signature topping and the only one that needs real work. Boba4T pearls boil for 5 minutes, then stew covered for 5 minutes off the heat, then rest in syrup. Cooked pearls should be used within 6 hours, after which they harden and lose their chew. Cook in batches sized to your day rather than one big morning pot. Uncooked pearls store dry for months, so keeping a full carton on the shelf is no risk.
What a starter order looks like
For a new shop we usually suggest something like this: the four base teas, one carton of tapioca pearls, 6 to 8 syrup flavors weighted toward passion fruit, mango, lychee and peach, taro and matcha powder plus one whipping powder, one carton of POP BALL in mixed flavors, and one or two jellies. Add cups in 500 ml and 700 ml, sealing film and 12 mm straws, and you can serve a 20-drink menu on day one. That lands near our normal order size of about 20 cartons and fits on one pallet from Malmö.
Prices for the whole range are public on the site. If you send us your draft menu, we will turn it into an order list with quantities, and tell you which of these you can safely leave out for launch.