Boba Bubble Tea: The Ultimate Recipe Guide Paperback – September 30, 2013

Yes, this is overpriced for 20 or so sheets of paper bound. However, I still recommend it. Where else are you going to learn how to make a bubble tea that so transcends the powdered mix drinks in the ubiquitous bubble tea shops? Real tea, real milk and real ingredients to impart flavor with tapioca bubbles added. I went looking for a book like this when I was given "real" Bubble Thai tea and realized the possibilities.The book provides six simple bubble teas - black tea, Jasmine, Red Zinger, Thai, Hibiscus and Matcha. There are many fruit bubble teas - strawberry, melon, lychee, peach, watermelon, mango, grape, avocado, passion fruit, black currant, honeydew, cantaloupe, pineapple, raspberry, green apple, banana, orange and kiwi. And some interesting outliers - coffee, vanilla, coconut, black sesame, pistachio, peanut and taro root. The recipes use a variety of milk types and sweeteners but to my surprise do not offer the alternative jellies so often found in bubble tea shops. They do, however, have examples of bother the iced and the frappe-style drinks.The net result is their recipes have enough variety that one gets comfortable with the basics so that you can predicate the ratios, sweeteners and milks that will work for a particular flavor. (I especially appreciated the molasses in the taro root). And you can adjust versions for vegans or allergies. What I would have really liked is a final generic recipe in a mix-and-match format to consolidate the information.

Encore filled this book with the same typo in EACH rip-off recipe -- "Boil 2 cups of water per ¼ cup of tapioca pearls in a saucepan over high heat and add the boba/ tapioca pearls; stir gently and cook until they star to float." I guess they don't understand the need for an editor even for rip-off recipes!The same paragraph continues in almost all the recipes -- "Then turn down the heat and cook for another 12-15 minutes. Set aside and let it cool for at least 12-15 minutes. Prepare the simple sugar syrup: boil some water in a saucepan over high heat and add in 2 tbsp. sugar, stir frequently until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is syrupy. Set aside and let it cool."The last direction is usually "Pour tea into a tall glass and add the boba. Serve with a wide straw and enjoy!" Sometimes they say to add milk and sweetener or ice. Not only thieves but lazy thieves!Additional typos in this terrible book include "1 cup dried tapioca pearly" "1 cantaloupe, separate" "4 tbsp. Tapioca Balls" "1 cp. ice cubes" "add the bobaand the ice." And finally both "tbsp and TB" for tablespoon in the same recipe they stole from olivesfordinner.com.The Kiwi Bubble Tea has NO kiwi in it but does have mint, basil, spinach, pineapple and mint leaves.Encore Books can't be consistent with their recipe format because they copy the recipes from all over the Internet. That's why you get the different terms for the same item and different expressions of measurement. This proves they aren't anything but recipe copiers and not cooks or recipe developers by any means.The initial information and directions for the "Simple Bubble Tea" are off thekitchn.com with a lot more detail about what you're doing and why. Plus the ingredient quantities are better and more sequentially accurate.The basis of the different flavors, for the most part, is the type of tea you use as the base flavor. So "Jasmine Bubble Tea" is made with Jasmine Tea rather than the more common black tea. Go to theaimlesscook.com for Taiwanese bubble tea jasmine milk tea with boba (where this recipe resides and was born) for better directions without typos like ". . . until they star to float."Hibiscus tea can be made from dried hibiscus petals you can buy by the bag at Mexican grocery stores. Or you can use tea bags. There's a variety of tea in bags these days so you can go crazy with your favorite flavor. Cook the large Asian tapioca pearls (they expand and change color when they absorb the tea water) add sweetener and/or milk of your choice and enjoy. Not exactly rocket science.When explaining how to cook the tapioca pearls, Encore Books changed the ingredient from COOKED boba to "dried" which will be majorly significant. It helps if you know something about the subject matter of what you're copying so you can understand the significance of these mistakes. Poor formatting is lack of good editing, plain and simple.Go to buzzfeed.com and you'll find 23 recipes for bubble teas with far better directions than these from this pilfering publisher Encore Books including some in this book. If that's not enough, just Google "bubble tea" or "boba tea" and you'll get a lot more sites with far better directions.

i still don't have some of the necessary ingredients to make several of the recipes I want to try. With that being said all of the ingredients seem easy enough to locate either locally or online. I have been unable to locate boba in my local stores. I enjoy reading this cookbook as much as I enjoy other recipe books I own.For that reason I give it a 4 star. After I have been able to prepare a few of the drinks from this author I will update my rating.

The ‘book’ is more like a paper workbook and very thin. I expected something more substantial. However, there are plenty of good recipes to keep us busy and if we try them all, the book will prove itself to be large enough. The instructions are detailed and clear. This will be a great start.

Sorry to say, this was a total waste of my money. These are just recipes that you have to go out and nearly buy all ingredients for, but MOST recipes serve 1-2. I highly recommend buying the flavors you want in the powder form as I did. All you add is water and milk (choice), blend, add pearls and ice!!!!! Enjoy

this is a recipe book but it feels more like the authoer just took bunch recipes off the internet and put them together. there is no pictures and the book feels cheap. Nowhere near what recipe books feel like! i was trying to get this for a friend for her birthday cause she likes bubble teas. but this book feels so cheap i cannot give it to anyone as a present.

This book would be perfect for someone to start a Bubble tea business not for personal use.

My young adult children and husband love this type of tea. So when I saw this book I was ecstatic. The ingredients are available to me so I cannot wait to make this tea. I highly recommend this book because it is easy to follow.

Though the book has some decent bubble tea recipes the quality of the book itself looks as though it has been printed off and bound in someone's home rather than been professionally done at a publisher. As a result it seems pathetic value for the price paid. I am still giving it as a Christmas gift even if it is just to show what poor quality books are available on the market.

Per uso domestico va bene

Ok, il y a des recttes, mais c'est un livre imprimé directment du fichier Word sans edition etc. cela ne fait pas du tout professionnel! Vous avez déjà imprimé un document de 20 pages que vous avez tapé vous-même avec une mise en page basique fait automatiquement et ajouté un simple index? Voilà ce que vous allez trouver dans ce livre. Pas super content. C'était un cadeau en plus....