From the guide The Tea Atlas

Homemade Bubble Tea

Taiwanese milk tea with tapioca pearls.

40 min 2 glasses Iced Caffeinated Intermediate

Ingredients

6 groasted oolong or Assam
300 mlboiling water
60 gtapioca pearls
3 tbspbrown sugar
200 mlmilk

Method

  1. Cook the pearls as packaged (20 to 30 min). Drain and mix with the brown sugar and 2 tbsp hot water.
  2. Steep the tea strong for 5 min, strain and cool.
  3. In the glass: pearls with syrup, ice, tea and milk.

To finish: A wide straw.

Tip: Pearls harden in the fridge: make only what you will drink within 4 hours.

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