It has been a while since some club members asked for a cooking project; therefore I thought of a DIY of Boba tea not a long ago. Here you go... finally we got a chance to do it in April!
Ideally, we need to boil the boba, or black tapioca pearls (hei zhen zhu 黑珍珠), right before making the tea. However, I had to get it ready way before hand (the night before our class day) due to the tight schedule of our class, as well as my day. The result thought, is not bad at all. We added boiling water to "wake up" the refrigerated bobas on Tue and fortunately enough, they still taste good!
During the class time, we made different flavors of teas (茶 cha), added the boba, milk (奶 nai) and sugar/honey (糖tang／蜂蜜 feng mi). I'm sorry one of the students missed this project due to sickness; if we all are interested in doing it again, we may redo it in the future.
In fact, we were able to make more than what we can consume and shared many cups with our dear school teachers and administrators. Everyone tasted it seemed liked it and some were surprised to know how easy a DIY boba tea could be!
Here are some pictures I took throughout this project:
Some afterwards thoughts. It has been widely believed that the boba tea is an invention of the Taiwanese in the 1980s. I remember drinking and craving for them nearly twenty years ago when I was in college in Shanghai, in the 1990s. It was one of the most popular beverages on campus (and probably still is). The cost of one cup, then, was ¥2 RMB, about 30 cents in USD. But nowadays, in Davis California, the average cost is over $3 dollars per small cup. If you love it, and know how to make it in your own kitchen, I bet you gonna save some money on this. ;-)
For detailed recipes, please google "Babo Tea"online; here is one of the search results of mine:
Or, there are also videos out there to show you how....
Have fun making zhen zhu nai cha and enjoy it!!!
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