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The U.S. is entering a boba crisis.
Shipping containers from Asia are piling up at West Coast ports, delaying the arrival of much of the country’s supply of chewy tapioca balls. Boba wholesalers say their orders of boba just aren’t arriving, and they have no idea when they’ll get them. That means boba tea shops all over the Bay Area and the rest of the country are running out of their namesake boba.
“In the next week or so, tapioca will be a luxury because no one is going to have it,” said Tommy Huang, senior sales manager at Hayward’s Leadway International Inc., one of the biggest boba suppliers in Northern California.
“It’s going to take a long time to be able to say we will not have a shortage of tapioca,”
“The shortage isn’t just about boba, but the entire ecosystem that depends on overseas inventory,” the post said, adding later that the situation “is going to be very messy.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/re...Bay-Area-and-the-rest-of-the-U-S-16097585.php