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Are you tired of paying 3 bucks for a tiny glass of bubble tea?
Screw the shops! DIY!
Equipment
Stove, pot/steamer, strainer, bowl, glass. spoon
Ingredients.
Water, Tapioca, Teabags, brown sugar.
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sugar like this. easy!
Step 1 Tea!!! Put a teabag in boiling water or just go buy some green/black/taro/honeydew/etc tea from the grocery!
Step 1.1 DON'T Forget bubbles!!!!!
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If your Asian you might have one of these at home. Go find it!
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Using the electric steamer.
1 Put 2 cups of water in the steamer and start it. Boil water in a kettle
2 Once the kettle boils pour the water into the inner pot of the steamer and add tapioca
3 Press the button and go have fun! (do whatever) It'll take around 1 hour
4 Open it up add another cup of water into the steamer. NOT THE POT WITH TAPIOCA. Mix up the tapioca and press it again. (go have fun!)
Using a pot.
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If you don't have one just go buy bubble tea...
IMPORTANT!!!!
You MUST have AT LEAST 10 mL of water per gram of tapioca. The ratio of water to weigh of tapioca should be great than 10 : 1 I use around 13-15, you cannot get away with 9, they taste like shit, because they haven't completely cooked through.
1 Bring the water to a boil and pour in the tapioca. Stir evenly.
2 Boil it on high heat for 40 min.
3 Turn off the heat and let it sit. (approx 15 min)
4 Boil for another 40 min
Finishing off the bubbles!
5 Pour the tapioca into a strainer and rinse with cool water.
6 Mix in brown sugar. Wait about 15 min for the sugar to set in and your done!
Step 2. Add things you like into the tea.
Milk, more sugar whatever.
Tips & Tricks.
-Condensed milk gives it a certain flavor, you may try adding some in your bubble tea if you like it however it's very sweet.
-Tapioca can be bought at your local chinese supermarket. Usually it'll be sitting by things like lychee jelly, taro flavor drinks, etc.
Credentials:
I am Taiwanese. LOL that's it.
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Calgary25998 Posts
Wiggity WHAT? You can make your own bubble tea???
I have to try this ASAPLY. Thanks for the thread!
And I pay $5.50 but it's delicious 
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gonna... try... this....
I'm basically on a DIY period right now. Brewed my own beer, grew my own sugar crystals, now I need my bubble tea....
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Is this a Canadian thing since all posts are Canadian?
Sounds sweet nonetheless, hope I can buy it somewhere though lol
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:O i spend so much on this stuff. Should just try making it on my own. Thanks!
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Bubble tea so delicious. Great thread.
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Where do you get tapioca because I can't find it in my Asian supermarkets. Is it an online order? And about how much is it per bag?
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u went to the trouble of making ur own bubble tea bcz of 3 measly bucks?
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Awesome, a video, complete with a TL.net shirt, would be sweet!
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Desire of bubble tea has increased by one zillion percent.
But uh, where do you find the bubbles from? Recommendations?
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don't you need condensced milk? I hear it's a huge difference from using regular milk in bubble tea
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It's not a Canadian thing. It's pretty popular everywhere now.
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condensed milk is pretty much a necessity, never made boba tea without it and never will.
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interesting interesting...
<3 bubble tea
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Hmm. Bubble tea? I only know two kinds of teas: hot and iced. Can someone enlight me please?
edit - nevermind. Google will save us all. ^^
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If I dont use tapioca, is it still bubble tea ?!?!
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On May 18 2011 02:24 a176 wrote:
If I dont use tapioca, is it still bubble tea ?!?!
You can use lychee or jelly instead of tapioca. I hear tapioca is pretty hard to perfect.
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I did everything except the brown tea at the end >< Gonna try that on Saturday  !
Love bubble tea~
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Bookmarking this immediately. The closest boba place is a 20 minute drive... no more! Delicious bubble tea in the comfort of my home :3 thank you!
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On May 18 2011 01:15 Chill wrote:Wiggity WHAT? You can make your own bubble tea??? I have to try this ASAPLY. Thanks for the thread! And I pay $5.50 but it's delicious
Yeah you can even order straws, tea mix, and bubbles off amazon.com, its prettty expensive but if you make it regularly obviously it adds up to less than buying it from tapioca express each time or whatever your local bubble tea place is.
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