Bubble Tea Recipe

There are different styles of bubble tea, each features a little twist in taste, level of bitterness, softness of bubbles within. It all depends on your preferences. Here is my own recipe for the classic hong-kong style bubble tea, you can try it and change the ratios of tea to milk according to your liking. Here we go:

Ingredients:

- half and half cream (you can replace with milk if you are going for low calorie)
- A bag of Lipton black tea
- honey
- instant bubbles (you can get those from Korean or Chinese supermarkets)

Recipe:

- boil water until it steams
- sip tea bag in water for 15 minutes
- mix half and half cream with black tea in a 1:1 ratio, throw in a few drops of honey, shake the mixture in a closed container like it's the end of the world to make milk tea
- cook instant bubbles according to given instruction (instant bubbles is normally nice and tender in 5 minutes in boiling water, to make bubbles sweeter, soak the bubbles in warm honey water)
- use strainer to strain out bubbles from liquid, then add into milk tea