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The boba does get hard, but not as hard as you 👀

No, we did not add any green tea powder

It allows bubbles to evaporate so the balls are clear and don't float

Sounds like a wonderful flavour 😊

100% it does. It would completely solidify if left too long.

Yep, we wouldn’t recommend leaving it in the calcium alginate for too long. Once you’ve made all the pearls, remove and rinse them with clean water.

It’s actually a misnomer in a lot of Western countries. The direct translation of the popular drink is just “Brown Sugar Milk”. But, because these boba-type drinks tend to be thought as the same family as milk teas, alot of Western countries name this drink “Brown Sugar Milk Tea”. There is however a version with tea! The recipe is similar with the addition of black tea.

@@honestfoodtalks I see. I was so confused..I went to my local shops in a panic asking if they put tea it 🤣 they all do. I prefer it that way. Thank you for the recipe though!

We’d recommend making a stronger/richer filling in this case (if making tea, brew it for much longer and add more sugar. If making juice, use a more concentrated version). Just in case, make sure you rinse the pearls with clear drinking water before adding them to your drink. Also, don’t leave your popping pearls in the calcium solution for too long after you make them. Over time, the ‘skin’ formed will become thicker, making it taste less nice.

@@honestfoodtalks thanks for the tips I’ll try them out and update!!

It won’t be the original but we think itll be delicious 😋

Hope your friend enjoys their gift! 🎁 thanks for your kind words 😊

From our experience, we've not had any issues with cancelling the monthly subscription. You can email their customer support to cancel the monthly plan too as long as you do it before your monthly renewal. However, we have seen people complain about the process of cancelling (but not sure if this is because they've committed to the 3, 6 or 12 months plan to get a cheaper deal). We recommend getting in touch with their customer support to get more information. Hope this helps!

We’d recommend tasting the juice + sodium alginate mixture before you start the spherification process. Thatll allow you to adjust the amount of juice extract or sugar to add. Generally, you’d want the filling juice to be stronger/more concentrated that what you’d usually make for a drink. For example, we have tried making popping boba with plain tea before, but the first time we did it, the taste of tea was too mild. So, we decided to brew the tea for longer to get a stronger tea flavour. Hope that helps 🙏😊

If you don't want it to stick to the leaves you can coat the bamboo leaves in abit of oil before you wrap them. That should help it not stick. We’re not 100% sure on this but it could be the type of bamboo leaves - some naturally have more of a layer that helps prevent the rice from sticking. It could also be the amount of oil used to fry/cook the ingredients help it from sticking to the bamboo leaves. Our mum glazes the rice with sesame oil at the end for fragrance and taste, but it also helps with the rice not sticking to the bamboo leaves. For ours, sometimes we do find a bit of the rice sticking to the bamboo leaves when we unfurl them to eat. However, they usually form and hold shape quite well without sticking to the bamboo leaves. Hope this helps 🙏

Hi June, from our experience not all of the snacks included in the box have ingredients stickers on them. Alot of the bigger sized snacks usually have ingredients printed on or stickers on them, but some smaller ones sometimes do not have any. You should also know that not all of the ingredient stickers are in English. Some are just in Japanese. We cannot say if the ingredient stickers we’ve seen are actually FDA stickers. Our recommendation is to check with Tokyo Treat and Bokksu directly if you’d like to get the accurate information on this. Hope this helps 😊

Im sorry to hear that, let me try and help troubleshoot your issue. May I know what type of water are you using to dissolve your sodium alginate, and your calcium lactate powders? Are you using the measurements as mentioned in the video?

Happy to know you like it ☺️

It’s an underrated recipe for sure 😃 happy that you tried and liked it!

We love eating big ones too 😄 thank you for the kind and warm words ☺️

With popping boba you can try using a syringe and dropping them directly into the bowl. Although it's much faster, we don't think the results are as round and uniformed. Out of regular tapioca pearls, popping boba and crystal boba, the last one is the easiest to make in large batches using a mold. You can check out our recipe video on crystal boba here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNV5ltCTks66hI0.htmlfeature=shared

For matcha green tea, we prefer using ceremonial grade powder but you can also use culinary grade. The electric whisk method works for both powder types. Generally, ceremonial grade powder gives a subtler sweetness and a nicer ‘earthy’ taste in our opinion. Culinary grade is mostly used for baking and making desserts, as its bolder matcha flavour works better when combined with other ingredients. When we have the choice, we will use ceremonial grade for making the tea… but it is more expensive. So, we also use culinary grade often too 😌

@@honestfoodtalks Thank you for responding and for giving me an idea.

Ooh we didn’t know 😃 is it any different than what we made? thanks for sharing!

​​​@@honestfoodtalksthe appearance is look the same especially the ingredients and the leaves that you used bamboo leaves. And you can buy only that in Chinatown in Manila or also known as "Binondo".

Ideally use distiller water to mix both calcium lactate, and sodium alginate… But, if you had to choose, then: 1) Sodium alginate + Distilled water (or low-calcium water) 2) Calcium lactate + Tap water If you use tap water (with high calcium content) to mix sodium alginate, it will cause clumping and the sodium alginate will not dissolve into the water. Dissolving calcium lactate in distilled water works best, but we’ve also dissolved it in tap water. Hope this helps! 😊

@@honestfoodtalks thank you so much!!

For the bamboo whisk method, we first whisk 60 ml of hot water with matcha powder until frothy. Then you add more water (up to 200 ml or 1 cup) to complete the drink 😊 if you want, you can add milk instead of water to make it into a matcha latte. Hope this helps 🙏

May I know what juice you used, and how you’re storing the popping pearls?

@@honestfoodtalks I used concentrated strawberry, lemon, lime juice, mint extract, potassium sorbate preservative. Stored pearls in the refrigerator with and without water

@@sarret1 Thanks for sharing. From what we know, some fruits have naturally high calcium which may react with the sodium alginate and cause the coagulation, hence hardening of the liquid. For example, mint naturally has high calcium content, as well as orange, kiwi, and rhubarb. That might be the reason for the juice becoming hard 🧐 Hope this helps 🙏

@@honestfoodtalks thanks, I'll experiment

Here's our full recipe ☺️: www.honestfoodtalks.com/korean-corn-dog-recipe/

Yes, we’ve made it with honey before 😊

I suspect it could be because of the calcium content in the water you’re using to mix the sodium alginate. Ideally, use distilled water or low-calcium content water. In some areas, the regular tap water contains relatively high calcium content that makes the sodium alginate clump up… making it very hard to dissolve. Hope this helps 🙏

@@honestfoodtalks thanks for the tip, i'l give this a try

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@@capercody just put the sugar in and water do a even megerment put it in the microwave until it boils (USE HEAT TEMPERATURE TESTED CUPS)

The tapioca pearls we make usually last about 10-14 days before they start showing some signs of mould. Once we've made a batch, we usually leave them out on plates or trays in the open to air dry for a few hours. The pearls will start releasing some moisture over time, so you may see the first coating of tapioca flour around the pearls start to thin out. We usually will sprinkle and coat the pearls with more tapioca flour 1-2 more times during the course of the air-drying. We then simply put them in an airtight container and store in the dry cupboard of our pantry. They usually last for 10-14 days. But, if you were to keep them in vacuum-sealed bags, and also add silica gel packets in those, they would last much longer. When we want to cook the preserved pearls, we follow the same method as we would cook fresh pearls. We would cook them for 8-10 minutes* (adjust to the consistency you want) in boiling water, then continue gently simmering them for an additional 5-10 mins. Then, we add them to an ice bath for 1 minute before adding them to a drink. I think using a food dehydrator should help improve the shelf life even more 🧐 but I can't 100% recommend it as we've not done it ourselves. We don't have a food dehydrator to tinker with at the moment. Boba tea kits as Xmas gifts sound wonderful btw 😊

Thanks for watching! 😊

Yes, they all do worldwide shipping. But the shipping method depends on the destination country. They all have detailed breakdown on their shipping methods in their sites’ FAQs. Hope this helps 😊

We previously thought that the purple drinks were taro, but were surprised when we discovered both purple sweet potato and ube milk teas 😆 so you pose a very curious question indeed. Let us know if you figure it out!