Boba is made from cooking tapioca. Tapioca may be slightly difficult to find in the typical American supermarket, but they should be available in Asian supermarkets. I bought a bag of tapioca from the local Vietnamese supermarket. Since I was only planning on adding the boba to about three cups of milk tea, I chose to buy a small bag of tapioca. Additionally, I bought some black tea bags, sugar, and milk to make the milk tea. I already had brown sugar, honey, a pot with a lid, a tea kettle, cooking spoons, measuring cups, cups, bowls, and spoons at home, so I did not have to purchase these …show more content…
I filled a pot two-thirds full with tap water, put the lid on the pot, and placed the pot on the stove. I then filled the tea kettle with drinking water and set it on the stove. I turned the heat for both the pot and the tea kettle to medium-high, and waited for the water to boil. As I waited for the the water to boil, I poured out half a bowl of brown sugar and one-fourth of a bowl of honey and placed them on the side. When the water in the tea kettle boiled, I turned the heat off. When the water in the pot boiled, I removed the lid. Then, with a measuring cup, I poured one cup of tapioca into the pot of water. I stirred the tapioca occasionally as it was cooking. Eventually, all the tapioca floated to the top. I turned the heat to medium and let it cook for thirty minutes. I stirred the boba every three minutes.
As the boba was being cooked, I prepared the milk tea that I wanted to add some of the boba into. I placed a black tea bag into a cup and poured hot water from the kettle into three cups so that each was half-filled. I waited for three minutes. After that, I sweetened the tea by adding some sugar and stirring with a spoon. When the sugar dissolved, I added milk to each cup of tea so that each cup was three-fourths full. I removed the tea bag after ten minutes. The milk tea was set aside to