PÀO Turned its Best Selling Boba Drinks into Candles

PÀO has taken three of its bestselling drinks off the menu and placed them on the mantelpiece. In collaboration with Fairoza Candles, the boba and K-food brand has turned its iced coffee, iced matcha and iced taro into candles, allowing the familiar orders to remain on the table indefinitely.

It is a small but consequential change in function. The iced coffee no longer supplies caffeine; the matcha has been relieved of its wellness obligations; and the taro can survive an entire afternoon without collapsing into a lukewarm lavender puddle.

For PÀO, whose branches have multiplied across Egypt, the collaboration gives its drinks an existence outside the cup. For everyone else, it offers the rare opportunity to order a favourite beverage and then light it with a match. The usual warning applies, although it feels necessary to state: no matter how persuasive the resemblance, the candles are not boba.