If you're like Joe Deng and Raymund Lee, you’ve probably experienced some mediocre boba that didn’t quite wow you. The duo teamed up and created LimeRed, Massachusetts first of their kind boba shop. They were tired of the typical boba shop, that didn’t have integrity in their ingredients and used products of low-quality and were artificial.

Be sure to go inside Pho 89 as it cohabits spaces quite nicely, a perfect sweet to the savory brothy soups. We sat down with 30 year old owner Jay Tran, who gave us some backstory on how the almost two year old business has come to life, and how he made some sacrifices to get to where he’s at today.