JeniAshmi: Boba Tea (Bubble Tea)

Hello Guys,

I want to start off this post by saying 'IT'S REALLY HOT TODAY'

My sister did warned me that today is gonna be the hottest day of the year so I guess its true because it really is so hot today. As I am typing this; my room is literally boiling all though the windows are all open. Are you guys also feeling the heat?

Since I had nothing to do this afternoon plus the weather wasn't helping I decided to make Boba Tea which actually means bubble tea. The bubbles are little black tapioca balls you can get this in different colour as well but I think the black looks the prettiest keke XD

Enough of all this talking and lets get started.

Things you Need

Tapioca Balls ( I bought this at Loongfung (Chinese store) or I guess you can find this in Asian grocery stores as well) = 1 Cup (If you are tapioca fan go ahead and put a cup but if you are not I think half cup will be fine. 1 Cup was a bit too much for me I still have lots leftover)
Large Straws (The Tapioca balls are quite big so you need a bigger straws haha)
Water (The packaging said 10 cups for a cup of tapioca but since my cup was a bit big I just used 8 cups) ( If you are using a cup of tapioca 10 cups(depending on size of cups) but if you are using only half cup pour 5 cups of water)
Condensed Milk (To make the bubble tea a bit rich = Taste) (2 Tablespoon put more if you like condensed milk or to make it sweeter)
Milk ( 1/2 Cup)
Ice (Few Cubes)
Tea (Soak the tea bags in a hot water and wait until the flavour is released and cooled)
A fancy plastic cup ( Mine was I redecorated it myself haha it was actually a KFC krushems cup XD since I was too lazy to pop in to Mcdonalds where I could buy the clear cups (Frappe) I painted the logo plus cover the red lid with light pink :3)

Sugar

Sugar ( A cup if regular size mug if larger use half cup)
Water (Depending on cup size half if larger if smaller use 1 cup)

Procedure

Measure your tapioca balls and pour it in to the water and boil for approx 30 min (the bubbles should cook through properly until the bubble soften) The bubbles will rise to the top.
Rinse it under running water because it tends to get gooeyyy haha
In the mean time when you are boiling your tapioca balls also prepare a sugar syrup to soak the tapioca.
After the tapioca is cooked through place it onto the sugar syrup (I have noticed since the tapioca itself is a bit bland if you soak it in sugar syrup it will absorb the sweetness plus helps to prevent the tapioca balls to shrink)
Assembling it together is a fun part take your plastic cup (or just a glass) pour in your condensed milk first)
Now add your tapioca balls about 2 Tablespoon.You can always add more if you like it. (At this point you can add the syrup as well if you have sweet tooth )
Add your milk and mix a tiny bit of cold water.
Add the soak tea mixture about 2 Table Spoon ; for stronger tea taste add more if you like.
Lastly add some ice cubes
Mix it altogether
The order the ingredients go doesn't really matter.