Perfect Boba Tea Completely from Scratch (2 Ways)

We aren't just making the flavored milk tea... When I say homemade, I mean everything. From the fresh brewed milk tea all the way down to the brown sugar syrup and the homemade tapioca pearls, also known as boba pearls!

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[hope.m]

joshua is literally that friend you can never put on speaker phone cuz you never know WHAT THE HELL is gonna come out of his mouth 😂

[keilahcampbell]

I Forget so many people watch u and don’t make any of the recipes but let me just say this man has never failed me in the kitchen. No mediocre shit either

[abbelucia]

papa i tried this and just made brown sugar oobleck

[nathanielbrown]

Thanks for the awesome video! I've made both the Earl Grey and the Matcha now.

Some tips for viewers:

1 cup of tapioca starch/flour total. You can find that in the recipe he provides in the description.

I just add it all at once slowly after I bring the heat down and it seems to do the same for me.

Tapioca starch is the same as tapioca flour.

The syrup is great without the molasses if you don't have it.

If you get oobleck when you should have dough and it all seems hopeless, put it back in and cook it on low heat for a little while. It'll lose the oobleck quality and become more of a dough after a little while.

If it is crazy sticky and you think you've added enough tapioca, add a bunch more tapioca and you will be surprised that it will become better. I mean a bunch.

If you have a lumpy mess, you added the starch too fast without mixing well or you had it too hot. Just try again.

Take his advice and reheat the dough when it seems to not be rolling well. I dip my hands in a little water too while rolling and that helps also. + His advice on using ice cubes really makes a difference.

Definitely give yourself some time to do this. It has taken me consistently over 2 hours each time and it makes a pretty good mess.

Also be forgiving if your balls don't look perfect or seem a little cracked. Mine still boiled and became boba just fine.

Have a great day👍

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Honestly, I've never heard of Boba Tea until you made this video, and now that I've tried it I think I have a new addiction.

[mp.h]

“if you want to go to a boba tea shop, that’s fiiine. but if you make it yourself you have complete control.”
me who works at a boba shop: 🤠

[PixelPulse]

I love how I can be watching a Joshua Weissman video, laughing at immature jokes and then be shamed for laughing at immature jokes like 45 seconds later

[sathushchandragiri]

Me and my sister have tried this recipe, since the video can out and its still our go to boba recipe. We occasionally try new drinks such as taro and mango, it works with everything. Absolutely amazing video Joshua keep it up!

[ilueipf]

Note to anyone here: milk tea is traditionally made with milk added to the tea, which is the temperature you prefer, then shaken/stirred, and this is going to give you a lot more tea flavor as well as flexibility on how much flavor you want. Infusing tea into hot milk may sound like a good idea, but in actuality, heating the milk hot enough to infuse any flavor from the lose leaf tea is going to be too hot and end up scalding your milk, giving it an undesirable cooked flavor rather than a nice and fresh cream flavor. Also, trying to use loose leaf tea in milk is just not going to extract much flavor due to the milk being heavy, and again, you want whatever liquid being used to be hot to extract the most flavor, but you don't want to be keeping your milk at such high temperatures for so long.

[cynhwon]

Papa, at this rate, we don’t need to eat out at all...😂😂

[thegirafficorn]

Joshua: "yes, haha nut milk, so funny."
Also Joshua: " B A L L S."

[amy]

immediate follow✨ ive never felt so safe and capable? having a male-presenting person show me how to make something? and have a good laugh doing it?! sign me upppp

[BucketCharlie]

"THAT TASTES EXACTLY LIKE BOBA TEA!" I honestly would have never guessed. Thank you for that flavor spank.

[yayatim]

As a local Taiwanese, I'm impressed that not only you did the homework about how to do the boba itself and the tea, but also you know about how Taiwan is promoting using stainless straws for boba milk tea and banned plastic straws.

Proud to see my Taiwanese culture is authentically represented by your channel.

[moegamatismaillewis]

Honestly, this guy deserves his own tv show on food network.

[abbyvickery]

Can I just say…I’ve never had more fun learning how to make something than watching Joshua…literally had me laughing the whole time AND he gives very detailed instructions which was AWESOME

[TheMasterLuke]

“As usual, Those balls will shrink a little as they cool”. So understated. So comedic. Papa make me laugh.

[johntitor]

We don’t appreciate enough that papa keeps us in the closet and brings food to us... the kids in the basement don’t get any of that.

[zami]

Joshua: *makes boba tea*
Also Joshua when tasting it: "this tastes exactly like boba tea"

[canislupas]

This took a very long time, but it definitely works! And tastes amazing! Thank you so much for the easy to follow recipe!