Help us discover the boba details worth investigating
Community and Submission Guidelines
Boba.guide welcomes useful discoveries from people who drink, make, serve, sell, photograph and study boba around the world. A local menu, unusual topping, regional name, price change, preparation detail or first-hand observation can point us toward information that is difficult to find in generic English-language coverage.
What matters is context. “This is the best milk tea ever” tells us very little. “This shop in Kuala Lumpur calls this topping X, charges RM2 for it, and the menu photo was taken this week” gives us something concrete to investigate.
Submissions help Boba.guide discover questions and evidence. They do not automatically become verified facts, published recommendations or guaranteed features.
The simplest rule
Send the Detail That Made You Stop and Think
You do not need to be a professional writer, food critic, barista or researcher to contribute something useful.
Maybe a shop uses a tea name you have never seen in English-language guides. Maybe tapioca costs dramatically more in one city than another. Maybe a menu in Taiwan distinguishes two pearl sizes that American menus usually call the same thing. Maybe a shop’s “0% sugar” drink still tastes sweet because another ingredient is pre-sweetened.
Those details are exactly the kind of leads that can improve Boba.guide.
For general submissions, contact info@boba.guide.
What the community can help us see
What You Can Send to Boba.guide
The list is intentionally broad. Boba is too regional and fast-moving to assume every useful contribution will fit a single form.
Shop or location
A shop, kiosk, market stall, café or regional chain we should investigate. Include the city, country and exact name where possible.
Drink or topping
An unusual menu item, local topping, tea base, ingredient combination or drink family that deserves explanation.
Exact order or customization
A useful drink build, sweetness setting, ice choice, topping combination or ordering pattern that may help other readers.
Local terminology
A word, menu label or distinction used in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea or another market that English-language guides often flatten or mistranslate.
Price or menu change
A current price, topping surcharge, size difference, seasonal menu or customization change that may make one of our guides outdated.
Photo or menu photo
A useful original photo of a drink, menu, topping, preparation method or shop detail, provided you have the right to send it for review.
Recipe or preparation variation
A preparation method, ingredient ratio, pearl-cooking practice or tea technique worth investigating. Tell us whether it is personal practice, shop practice or sourced documentation.
A question your own cup created
Sometimes the most useful contribution is confusion: a drink that tasted unexpectedly sweet, pearls with a very different texture, a menu term that made no sense or a customization that worked differently from another shop.
Specific beats impressive
What Makes a Submission Useful
You do not need to turn your email into a research paper. A few concrete details make a large difference.
Shop name, city and country where relevant. A practice in Taipei should not automatically be interpreted as standard in Toronto.
Especially useful for menus, prices, seasonal products, locations and screenshots. Commercial information can become outdated quickly.
If a menu uses a particular term, spelling or local-language name, send the wording rather than only your interpretation of it.
A photo, official menu page, packaging label, screenshot or other traceable source can help us verify what you saw.
Tell us what seemed unusual or useful. Your experience can help us understand which question the evidence actually raises.
If you know that something applies only to one shop, one chain or one region, say so. Narrow accurate information is better than a universal claim that cannot be supported.
Two emails, very different research value
“Great Boba” Is Nice. This Is More Useful.
“You should add this place. Their brown sugar boba is amazing and cheap.”
“I visited Example Tea in Penang on August 12, 2026. Their menu listed brown sugar fresh milk separately from brown sugar milk tea, and tapioca was RM2 extra. I attached a photo of the current menu because I noticed your guide explains those drink types differently.”
The second message does not need to be longer because it sounds more professional. It is stronger because it gives us a place, date, exact distinction, price and evidence.
What happens after you send something
A Submission Is the Beginning of Verification, Not the End
Our master editorial rule is simple: community observations help us find information; factual publication requires evidence appropriate to the claim. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
We identify what you are actually telling us
Is it a personal preference, a shop detail, a current price, an ingredient claim, a possible correction, a regional term or something else?
We determine how broadly the information may apply
A single menu may be excellent evidence about that shop. It may be poor evidence for an industry-wide claim.
We look for supporting or conflicting evidence
That might mean checking a current official menu, local-language source, ingredient disclosure, government source or other material appropriate to the question.
The verified finding may improve a page or create a new research direction
A useful submission might lead to a correction, new example, regional comparison, menu explanation, future guide or simply a better understanding of the topic.
Different submissions support different kinds of claims
What Your Submission Can — and Cannot — Establish by Itself
Useful evidence of one person’s preference and potentially a clue to why a flavor appeals to some readers. It is not proof that the drink is objectively the best.
Can be strong evidence that the photographed menu displayed a particular item or price at that place and time. It does not automatically prove that every branch uses the same menu.
Can provide valuable first-hand information about that shop’s preparation. Broader ingredient or industry claims may still require additional verification.
Can document what a particular product version discloses. It should not automatically be generalized to every brand or recipe.
Can reveal that many people share the same confusion or experience. It does not convert an anecdotal pattern into a measured universal statistic.
Photos can be extremely useful when their context survives
Submitting Photos, Menu Images and Screenshots
Tell us whether you took the image yourself. Please do not submit someone else’s photograph as if you own it.
Include shop, market and approximate date. A menu without location or date can be difficult to interpret because chains often differ between countries and menus change.
Where practical, tell us which site, app or ordering system it came from and when you captured it.
If you materially altered the image, say so. Changing a menu price, product label or ingredient line and submitting the edited image as evidence is not acceptable.
Think before sending images in which identifiable people, especially children, are central to the photograph or private information is visible.
For rights, editing, AI-generated imagery and visual attribution, read our Image and Photography Policy.
Some claims need much more than a reader report
Allergens, Nutrition, Caffeine and Safety Need Stronger Verification
A personal experience can reveal an important problem. It cannot safely replace recipe-level or authoritative information when the consequence may affect someone’s health or dietary decision.
“The drink did not taste milky” does not establish that it was dairy-free.
“The shop selected 0% sugar” does not establish that the finished drink contained zero sugar.
“I did not feel caffeinated” does not establish that the drink was caffeine-free.
“I ate it safely” is not enough evidence for a general safety recommendation.
A shop employee’s verbal statement can be useful context, but consequential ingredient or allergen questions may still require current official confirmation.
This higher evidence standard is intentional and matches our editorial rule that submissions are leads to verify rather than automatic proof, especially for allergens, nutrition, dairy, caffeine and dietary or health-related information. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
What does not help the project
Submissions We May Decline or Ignore
Fabricated information. Fake shops, invented menu prices, altered screenshots, fake quotations or made-up first-hand experiences do not belong in the research process.
Material copied from someone else without permission. Finding an image or article online does not automatically give you the right to submit it for republication.
Pure promotional copy presented as community knowledge. A shop or brand may send useful information, but commercial interest should be disclosed rather than disguised as an independent reader recommendation.
Bulk generic guest-post pitches. A prewritten “Top 10 Bubble Tea Flavors” article created mainly to place a backlink is not the kind of community contribution this page is designed for.
Unverifiable medical or safety claims. We will not publish consequential claims merely because they were included confidently in a submission.
Abusive, threatening or deliberately deceptive material. A useful correction or disagreement can be direct without becoming harassment.
A tip and an authored contribution are not the same thing
Credit, Attribution and Publication
Submitting information does not automatically create an author profile, public credit line or right to control the final editorial wording.
A tip that helps us locate a menu, identify a local term or notice an outdated detail may simply become part of the research process.
Original reporting, photography, specialist explanation or another meaningful contribution may justify attribution depending on what is used and what has been agreed.
If attribution creates a genuine concern, tell us before publication is discussed. We can evaluate what information can responsibly be used and under what conditions.
A submission can be useful without ever appearing publicly. We may investigate it, confirm it independently, decide it is too narrow, find conflicting evidence or determine that it does not belong on the site.
Our Authors and Contributors page explains the broader distinction between editorial authorship, sources and community contributions.
Businesses are welcome to provide facts — with their role disclosed
If You Represent a Shop, Brand or Supplier
Businesses often have the best primary information about their own products: current menus, ingredients, sizes, equipment, recipes, opening dates or operational details.
That information can be useful. Please tell us clearly that you represent the business.
Providing information does not guarantee coverage, a favorable recommendation or editorial control. Marketing language may be considered as the company’s own claim rather than independent evidence.
If your message is actually a sponsorship, advertising, affiliate or other commercial proposal rather than an editorial information submission, use the appropriate route on our Work With Boba.guide page.
Send it to the right desk
Which Boba.guide Route Should You Use?
You believe a published Boba.guide statement is wrong or outdated.
Your message does not clearly fit a shop submission, correction or collaboration proposal.
Have something worth investigating?
Send It to the Boba Guide Editorial Team
For menu observations, regional terminology, drink discoveries, photos, unusual toppings, preparation details, local pricing and other community research leads:
info@boba.guideUseful subject lines are specific. For example:
“Taiwan pearl-size terminology”
“Singapore menu sweetness observation”
“Current Toronto topping price”
You do not need to make the message polished. Make it identifiable, contextual and honest.