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This Montreal Spot Serves Bubble Tea In 'Fat Cups' & You Can Try It For $2 This Weekend

If you're a boba lover in Montreal, start stretching your hands. Why? Because One Babo's bubble teas come in chunky cups that you won't want to put down.

To celebrate its new location in the Old Port of Montreal, One Babo is serving up $2 bubble teas all day Saturday starting at 12 p.m., as long as you follow its Instagram page. The first 50 people will actually get their boba totally free. 

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Montrealers Can Get Personal-Sized Boba Waterfall Cakes That Overflow When You Unwrap Them

You may be wondering if "boba tsunami cake" from Montreal's Ri Yue Cakes could possibly be as cool and tasty as it sounds. And the answer is yes. 

For starters, it tastes like bubble tea and is topped with actual black sugar boba bubbles. The owner, Daisy Yuan, used to have a bubble tea shop near Places-des-Arts called Coin Bleury. When it closed due to the pandemic, she said she turned her attention to baking.

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9 Totally Unexpected Places To Bring A Date In Montreal This Spring

With warmer weather, longer days and a later curfew in Montreal, there's no excuse for another date night spent watching Netflix on the couch (not that there's anything wrong with that... we're just saying, there's more to life). If you're really looking to impress your date, plan something unexpected! 

These under-the-radar springtime date ideas in Montreal will earn you major brownie points. Plus, you'll guarantee yourself a fun time — no matter how well or how poorly the date goes.

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Montreal Has 'Bubble Rooms' That Let 2 People From The Same Household Party Together

It goes without saying that Montreal nightlife is unlike anything else in Canada, if not the world, and is definitely something that we've been missing during the pandemic.

But good news, Montreal Bubble Rooms have been created as a safe way to party without leaving the comfort of your bubble.

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Quebecers Living Alone During The 'Holiday Pause' Can Join Another Family's Bubble

With a high number of COVID-19 cases and some Quebec hospitals reaching their limits, Premier François Legault announced that new measures will take effect from December 17 to January 11 — a period he called a "holiday pause."

While this means mandatory work-from-home and the closure of non-essential businesses, he also announced some positive news for people living alone in the province. 

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This Florist Brought The 'Flower Bubble' Trend To Montreal & It Has Major Fairytale Vibes

Flowers — as gifts or home decor — can add beauty and magic to our lives, but they often disappoint us within a week or two when they inevitably die. And none of us need more disappointment in 2020. Iruda Atelier, a Griffintown flower shop run by florist Iruda Kim, solves that problem by making bouquets out of "premium dried flowers," which are designed to last up to 24 months. 

What's even more impressive is that Kim offers the option of putting the dried flowers in bubbles, which are unlike anything typically seen in Canada.

They're giving us major fairy-tale vibes. Remember Belle's enchanted glass-encased rose in Beauty and the Beast? Yeah. That.

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