Mango popping boba is $6.75 per 1.25kg by the case in Ontario and $6.50 in Quebec, against a $10.50 single-unit reference price. That is the headline number if you are pricing a topping bar. Doking Canada stocks popping boba by the case from two local warehouses, Toronto (3802 Victoria Park Ave) and Montreal (7320 Rue Cordner), so you buy from stock in your province instead of importing a container. Mango is the flavour we quote a firm by-case number on today. The rest of the range (strawberry, passion fruit, peach, and water chestnut) is quoted per case, so you tell us your province and we send current pricing. There is no online checkout: you request a quote and order by purchase order, and free samples are available on request. The short version for an operator: popping boba is a high-margin topping that needs no cooking and no end-of-day waste.
What popping boba is for an operator
Popping boba is a juice-filled sphere with a thin skin that bursts when a customer bites it. For your kitchen, the relevant part is not the flavour, it is the handling. It ships ready to use in a pail, you drain and spoon it, and it goes into fruit teas, lemonades, slushes, yogurt drinks, and dessert bowls. There is no boiling, no sugar soak, and no timed holding window to manage.
As a menu item it does two things. It lets you charge a topping upcharge on a drink whose base cost is already low, and it adds a visual and textural point of difference that reads well in photos. If you already run a fruit-forward drink like a passion fruit blast, a spoon of matching popping boba is a small ingredient add on top of a cup that is mostly margin to begin with.
Flavour lineup and by-case pricing
Here is the current range and what we can price today. Mango carries a firm by-case number. The other flavours are quoted per case, and pricing is set per province (Ontario and Quebec). The single-unit price is a national retail reference, not the wholesale number.
| Flavour | Case unit | Ontario by-case | Quebec by-case | Single (national ref.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mango popping boba | 1.25kg | $6.75 | $6.50 | $10.50 |
| Strawberry popping boba | Per case | Quote per case | Quote per case | Quote |
| Passion fruit popping boba | Per case | Quote per case | Quote per case | Quote |
| Peach popping boba | Per case | Quote per case | Quote per case | Quote |
| Water chestnut popping boba | Per case | Quote per case | Quote per case | Quote |
Mango and passion fruit are the workhorses on most Canadian menus, strawberry and peach round out a fruit-tea board, and water chestnut is the textural outlier for operators who want something beyond the usual fruit set. If you want firm case pricing on a specific flavour, name it and your province when you request a quote.
No-cook handling vs cooked pearls
This is where popping boba changes your line, not just your menu. Cooked tapioca pearls need to be boiled, rested, and sugar-soaked, and once a batch is ready it holds for a limited window before it hardens and has to be dumped. That is labour on every shift and a standing source of waste, especially on slow days when a batch outlives demand.
Popping boba skips all of that. It is shelf-stable in the sealed pail, you portion straight from it, and an open pail does not force an end-of-day throw-out the way a cooked pearl batch does. For a small team or a restaurant adding drinks as a side line rather than a main event, that is the difference between a topping you can actually keep on the menu and one that quietly costs a prep slot every morning.
None of this replaces tapioca. A full topping bar usually runs both: chewy black tapioca for the classic milk-tea texture and popping boba for the fruit drinks and the visual. Black tapioca is $3.75 per kg by the case in Ontario and $3.50 in Quebec, so it is cheap to carry alongside. The point is that popping boba earns its place by adding almost no labour, while cooked pearls earn theirs on texture and pay for it in prep time.
For the drinks it pairs with, our recipe cost cards put a passion fruit double blast at about $1.00 in ingredients per 500ml cup, roughly an 83% ingredient margin before labour, rent, and cups. A popping boba topping is a small add on top of a cup that already carries margin like that. See the mango popping boba page for the SKU we price today, and the black tapioca pearl page if you are building the full topping bar.
Toronto and Montreal pickup, and free samples
Doking is a wholesale supplier, not a retail checkout. You buy by the case, request a quote, and order by purchase order. Because we hold stock locally, you pick up or take delivery from the warehouse in your province rather than waiting on an overseas shipment.
- Toronto warehouse: 3802 Victoria Park Ave, Toronto, ON M2H 3H7, +1-416-833-4866. Serves the Greater Toronto Area and Ontario.
- Montreal warehouse: 7320 Rue Cordner, Montreal, QC H8N 2W8, +1-514-712-9993. Serves Montreal, Laval, the South Shore, and Quebec.
Free samples are available on request, so you can burst-test a flavour in your own fruit tea or lemonade before you commit a case to it. Building a full topping bar alongside the popping boba? See our custom popping boba options and by-case tapioca pearls in Toronto or Montréal.
Certifications
Doking’s production base holds HACCP, ISO 9001, ISO 22000, and HALAL certifications, available on request. Doking Canada is the local operation of a manufacturer that has produced these ingredients since 1996.
Get case pricing and free samples
Tell us which flavours you want and your province, and we will send current by-the-case pricing plus free samples from your nearest warehouse in Toronto or Montreal. For foodservice operators in Ontario and Quebec, that is the fastest way to see what a popping boba topping does to your drink margins before you order a case.
