These seem to be latest craze and I have seem them in a good few places in Greece .
Have you tried any of them ?

No

Seen Dubai chocolate in a couple of shops, priced at about 5 times + plus the amount of a Cadburys Chocolate Bar, this chocoholic is steering well clear.

depechedingle wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:15 pm

Seen Dubai chocolate in a couple of shops, priced at about 5 times + plus the amount of a Cadburys Chocolate Bar, this chocoholic is steering well clear.

I went into Aldi yesterday... Honey nut flakes I think they call them.. £1. Kellogg's Honey Nut Cornflakes... £2.50. Taste exactly the same.

You stick to your Cadbury's and screw the Dubai chocolate!

I've had bubble tea a few times - most notably in Rosa's in Manchester.

In the words of Jim E Brown, it's quite nice. Tastes of tea, with... like... bubble things in it.

Leon_C wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:15 pm

In the words of Jim E Brown, it's quite nice. Tastes of tea, with... like... bubble things in it.

No chocolate?

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:16 pm

No chocolate?

I didn’t have that

Dubai chocolate sounds like the kind of thing “influencers” eat ….it looks revolting.

Stalbansclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:39 pm

Dubai chocolate sounds like the kind of thing “influencers” eat ….it looks revolting.

Seen it in a airport duty free for €25 for a big bar of it .. The wife said there are loads of rip offs , God knows

So Dubai chocolate is chocolate with pistachio in it, or am I missing something.

Certainly don't get where they're getting the pricing at £10 for a small bar of the stuff. More to the point, who's buying it in this financial climate?

Had bubble tea back in the 90s in Singapore. I had a banana one but it had an aftertaste of cold tea, and I don't like cold tea lol. It seemed to be all students and they had some weird and wonderful very large coloured drinks. Maybe I should have tried one of those instead.

Ah yes, I remember seeing them support OMD at Hammersmith back in 1982. Decent synth beat combo if I recall.

Tafas: [talking of Britain] Is that a desert country? T.E. Lawrence: No: a fat country. Fat people.

It really brings out my inner narky Boomer

I know i should be zen and let it flow over me like water over rocks but grrrrrr

Don't get me started on "Korean Fried chicken", Chinese Hot Pot and those bloody steak gaffs where they give you a piece of steak you'd swear was still mooing and a red hot lump of rock to cook it on, yet still have the cheek to charge you as if they fookin cooked it for you.

W*****s

Leon_C wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:15 pm

I've had bubble tea a few times - most notably in Rosa's in Manchester.

In the words of Jim E Brown, it's quite nice. Tastes of tea, with... like... bubble things in it.

I've not forgiven him for being such a **** with his Labubu

ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 08, 2025 9:17 am

I've not forgiven him for being such a **** with his Labubu

"It's not food"

Leon_C wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 08, 2025 9:51 am

"It's not food"

He's a convincing character act though, ill give him that. Putting him at early to mid 30's i'd have known him or been mate of a mates with him around manc comedy and it baffled me for a while that we'd never met

ŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 08, 2025 10:00 am

He's a convincing character act though, ill give him that. Putting him at early to mid 30's i'd have known him or been mate of a mates with him around manc comedy and it baffled me for a while that we'd never met

What? He's 19 years old!
I refuse to believe different.

Is it cold?

The tea, that is.

Bubble tea is rank, but I don't drink tea.

The Dubai chocolate stuff is quite nice tho, like shredded wheat and unsalted pistachios mixed together

Cocktails with boba balls in them are awesome so if you're into tea then yeah I guess you'll like em.

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 08, 2025 3:02 pm

Bubble tea is rank, but I don't drink tea.

The Dubai chocolate stuff is quite nice tho, like shredded wheat and unsalted pistachios mixed together

The majority of the fruit ones have no tea at all. It's practically a fruit juice with tapioca balls.

Claretfanatic1982 wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 08, 2025 4:43 pm

The majority of the fruit ones have no tea at all. It's practically a fruit juice with tapioca balls.

We buy a bubble tea pack for my son who loves it... it has a tea bag - but the instructions suggest dipping it in boiling water for around 5 seconds. It's like the beverage version of homeopathy.

Leon_C wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 08, 2025 4:54 pm

We buy a bubble tea pack for my son who loves it... it has a tea bag - but the instructions suggest dipping it in boiling water for around 5 seconds. It's like the beverage version of homeopathy.

I wonder if it is classed as tea it attracts a lower level of tax than a sweet drink such as coke or fruit juice?

Bubble tea is ok if that’s your thing , but surely it’s come and gone by now surely ? Had it in the far east couple of times , I just thought fruit and cold tea taste .

As for Dubai Chocolate , a clever marketing exercise aimed at the type of airheads that go to Dubai . Though in its defence it does have a kind of generic sweet “ taste of the Middle East” , Knafeh ,spell? they call it out there . It’s v sweet ( imo ) and quite pricey . Like most things in Dubai it’s perfectly ok in an overpriced over shiny style over substance
way.