Bubble Tea
“It’s chewy and odd,” says the food critic Marina O’Loughlin. “It’s slippery and strange, but weirdly more-ish. I love the way it comes with a flat straw so I can scoop out the balls and they plop into my mouth.”
O’Loughlin is talking about Bubble Tea, one of the fastest growing drink trends around at the moment.
The origin of this ‘slightly squishy’ tea is 1980s Taiwan. It began as an evolution from the traditional drinks that street vendors sold and after some experimentation they came up with Bubble Tea.
The coffee nap
As I am currently writing this the clock is slowly ticking and tocking towards 3pm. With the pendulum swaying backwards and forwards, every second is passing. And with each second, the desire for a lovely mid-afternoon nap rises. Sadly, if I was caught napping at my desk whilst working the consequences might not be too palatable.
The obvious alternative would be to drink a cup of strong coffee, push through the drowsiness and ride that caffeine kick for as long as it lasts. That’s generally how it works in offices – well, according to my experiences anyway.
However, if you can spare a few minutes to enter a gentle slumber during the afternoon you should combine a brief period of shut-eye with a cup coffee and reap two benefits. Supporters of this practice know it to be the famous coffee nap.