I researched a little bit and found a wiki page that seems to say the craze began in Taiwan in 1980 - I'm 30 years behind with the bubble tea craze apparently!
Last week we stumbled across a Chinese supermarket on a day out in York and just by chance, I found packets of pearl tapioca which is what puts the bubbles in bubble tea! I snapped some up and brought it home and started looking for recipes - me being me, I ended up concocting my own version.
I used tinned strawberries with half of the syrup, whizzed in the blender with some milk and a cooled, strong shot of green tea (we used decaf).
I followed the packet instructions for cooking the pearl tapioca and then let it cool before shaking it all together. The syrup from the strawberries made it sweet enough for us but you could add sugar or honey too.
The reviews were mixed. It wasn't my cup of (bubble) tea at all, the texture really didn't work for me, but Cameron loved it!
We bought some rainbow (hello E numbers) pearl tapioca too which I might try making a pudding with instead of more bubble tea. It has a long shelf life though and I'm not in a rush to cook any more of it.
2 comments:
Sounds positively ...disgusting I'm afraid!
LOL Jax, don't mince your words!
I thought the green tea in the milkshake was really nice but the texture of the tapioca really didn't sit right with me at all!
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