After reading @kevvieguy‘s experiment on making bubble tea (post is here, and the post he recommended is here), I also decided to give it a try! I’m a big bubble tea fan, and to make my own instead of going to the shops is a definite bonus… I spend too much these days on eating and drinking out, and not enough time making my own things…
So I kind of copied @kevvieguy, but changed ingredients as I was being lazy…
I bought this instant Thai milk tea (I actually don’t know what flavour it is), and the black tapioca pearls (I couldn’t find the coloured ones in my local store)…
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| Thai Milk Tea and black tapioca pearls |
I cooked the pearls first for 5 minutes as instructed, drained them, and then I added honey instead of making my own syrup… Lazy Geek!! 🙂 (I estimated the amount of pearls needed here).
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| Boil those bubbles! |
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| Nice and glossy 🙂 |
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| Almost ready.. |
Then next I added the instant tea into a glass, added some cold water…but then I think it didn’t dissolve too well, so I added some hot water, then re-added some cold water…
And then finally I added the tapioca pearls that were soaking in the honey…
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| DIY Thai Milk Bubble Tea |
I didn’t have a big straw and so I used a spoon and scooped them out to eat… Wow, chewy! Next time, if I’m craving bubble tea, I will make my own!! 😀
Then the next day I made this one using instant Vietnamese coffee 😀
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| Using Vietnamese coffee |
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| DIY Vietnamese Bubble Tea |
Ingredients:
– Tapioca pearls
– Instant milk tea (or any ice tea drinks you can make or buy)
– Water (cold and hot)
– Honey (or sugar to make the syrup to soak the tapicoa pearls)
– Ice cubes (optional)
– Big straw (purchasble in China Town)
– Big straw (purchasble in China Town)
How to make… instructions as above… too lazy to rewrite it all… 😛
A Simple Geeky Life 
Thankyou for the mention 🙂 Your bubble tea looks delicious, much nicer than mine! I still havent tried it with milk tea, will have to try that next. The tapioca pearls are great arent they – so chewy! I left some in the fridge and the next day they were starting to go hard. They were almost like eating sweets haha.
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😀 it tasted really nice too! I think I will make a syrup next time to get some extra sweetness! Tapioca pearls become stale starch afterwards heheh XD
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I found a bag of rainbow pearls in my local mart so im hoping to try something similar soonish.
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Good luck! ^_^
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