Boba Bloom drinks venue opens in Portsmouth

The Japanese venue opened on Saturday

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:28 Can you introduce yourselves please?

00:30 Hiya, my name is Jannah.

00:32 My name is Yasin.

00:33 And tell us a little bit more about what's happening here today.

00:35 So today is our opening day of Boba Bloom in Portsmouth.

00:39 Currently we have how many branches?

00:41 This is our fifth one, so we started from Wokingham down Reddingside.

00:46 Started off very small and gradually working our way up there.

00:50 And I understand this is a family run business?

00:52 Yes.

00:53 So do you have all the family down today helping out?

00:55 Yes, we first started it myself, my wife's at home, she was with us as well.

00:59 That's my sister and obviously myself, we are the three people that started it.

01:03 I can see there's quite a queue building outside, so there's obviously a bit of a buzz around what you guys do.

01:09 Yes, we specialise in bubble tea, mocktails, our coffees and we're doing Japanese souffle pancakes.

01:16 So that's very popular at the moment and it's something that we really enjoy and that we like making.

01:22 It's something that Portsmouth doesn't have as well, so we thought it was very niche.

01:25 So bring something to the community as well.

01:28 So where can people find you if they want to come down and try it out?

01:31 So we're right near Commercial Road on 5 Arundel Street.

01:34 By Wendy's and TSP, opposite Lloyds Bank. There was a big debit there.

01:41 Do you have a website?

01:42 We have a website, we have social media.

01:44 On TikTok and Instagram we're @bobabloom_ so you can follow us there.

01:49 Perfect. Well, congratulations, good luck for today and I hope all goes well for you.

01:53 Thank you very much. Take care.

01:55 Thank you.

01:58 Bye.

02:00 [indistinct chatter]