Boba Milk Tea from Great Pretender | Anime with Alvin

My playlist of preferred cooking tunes, Bangers with Babish!

[Neotenico]

It makes me so happy to see how much Alvin has grown in the past year. Compared to his first Food Wars episodes, his confidence and joke delivery in the voiceover commentary are off the charts, he's tackling more and more ambitious recipes, and he's clearly become a part of the BCU family.

[nicischmidt]

Tea snob here, if you bring your water up to about 175F degrees, steep it for 5 minutes before you strain, and then DO NOT press your leaves, you will get a rich, delicious tea concentrate without that bitterness. Steeping your tea too hot, or too long, and pressing it draws out the tannins that cause bitterness. Hope this helps someone somewhere.

[hilotakenaka]

It’s entirely possible that the reason why the tea concentrate tasted far too bitter was because the tea was pushed through the sieve. This often forces tannins out of the tea leaves.

[mollyscozykitchen]

The Great Pretender is weirdly nostalgic for me — it was my brother’s first foray into anime, and though I don’t like anime nearly as much as he, we watched Death Note together and it was really sweet! Almost as sweet as this boba looks. Lovely episode as always, Alvin and BCU!

[ghostmochi]

This is either terrible or fantastic for my boba tea addiction. Ah well. Nothing ventured nothing gained! *proceeds to make an entire batch just for myself*

[irlShively]

I've made my own boba before, and if it werent for how long it takes to roll the pearls, I'd make it all the time. Now I mostly make it for when my friends come over, or as a gift. You can freeze the dough and it keeps for a very long time.

[truebluebamm]

CHEAT CODES: You can use a use sheet pan to roll many bobas at once! Place it on top of the cut squares and gently move it around in a circular motion - Roll bunches of bobas at one time!! 🙌💙

[TypeRyRy]

Wait, ALVIN?! I love his videos! I didn't know he was with Babish. That's awesome!

Great work, Alvin!

[aplduerme]

I’ve been a boba barista for two years and I approve of this method. If you don’t have a shaker, you’d typically want to put the milk tea in the cup before the ice because the ice will melt and water down the drink relatively a lot faster

[ashagray]

I'm a fairly new boba drinker and I absolutely love the brown sugar milk boba as well. Having watched this episode I can see why it costs what it does. Those tapioca pearls are labor intensive. I also am now motivated to go get a boba treat this afternoon 😁

[alanl]

Edamame’s dub VA here. Thanks for showing Great Pretender some love!

[Omicron]

The Great Pretender is probably one of my favorite anime of all time; Please take the time to watch it. The sound track is top notch.

[aryamansinha]

This series is becoming one of my favourites on the BCU Keep them coming please!!! Also could you please please please bring back Sohla she was amazing ?

[humishah]

I usually buy the pearls but where is the fun in that!! Love Boba Milk Tea & great Job to you and your crew! Subscribed!

[TheGrYlix]

A milkshake seems downright healthy compared to this 😂

[Vitz]

There's really no end to interesting foods from anime to try out. Loving this series with Alvin!

[classic_joke]

I've never clicked on a video so fast! Thank you, BCU, for doing an episode, not only on my favorite, but on a crazy underrated anime

[kyuminnie]

Great Pretender is such an underrated show

[tinyquokka]

Great Pretender is SUCH an awesome series, highly recommend! It's funny, has lots of drama / plot twists, and just overall super fun to watch :~)

[sebastianscott]

I worked at a scout camp last summer - our camp actually hosted a Vietnamese-American jamboree, and some of the scouts made boba tea at the camp, it was really refreshing having it with the hot summer days we had up there - great recipe!