Surgery has generally been recommended for all inguinal hernias to avoid complications such as strangulation, in which a loop of intestine becomes tightly trapped in a hernia, cutting off the blood supply to that part of the intestine.
BOBO Drinks has okay boba -- it's good, but it's not the best boba in Berkeley. I ordered the passion fruit green tea with boba, and the drink had a slight sweetness and tanginess from the passion fruit and I could taste the green tea in the drink as well as small pieces of passion fruit dispersed in the drink.
The name means home of the Bobo-Dioula; while it was likely coined by French colonists to reflect the languages of the two major groups in the population, it does not capture the complex identity and ethnicity of the location. The local Bobo-speaking population (related to the Mande) refers to the city simply as Sia.