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The only noise was the low thump from a boombox in front of a boba shop.

Roberto Recinos, a 21-year-old downtown Los Angeles resident, works at It’s Boba Time right by the Metropolitan Detention Center, where protests have been going on for six days.

Raspberry-flavored popping pearls — not quite boba, but close — dropped into a trio of bright-pink Refreshers.

Not to be confused with chewy tapioca boba, these popping pearls are thin, gel-like spheres that burst in your mouth.

On Saturday, chef Diego Argoti of the Estrano pop-up and former executive chef of now-shuttered Poltergeist, brought a sense of chaotic whimsy to the feast with platters of battered frog legs drizzled with Sichuan pepper buffalo sauce, grilled beef tongue with strawberry puttanesca and refried lentils, plus a pandan butter mochi cake with rum raisin boba that glowed green thanks to a dusting of lime leaf sour patch.