Properties: Tiny and hard when uncooked and large, sticky and chewy when cooked. Flavor: They are flavorless but tend to take on any other flavors you are cooking with. Uses: Desserts like pudding, ...

If the boba’s black, turn your back. That’s what we learned after speaking with Jack Hsiao and Wei-Chih “Wei” Kao, co-owners of the Lone Tree location of Latea, one of the many boba tea shops that ...

Bring 4 cups of water to boil in a medium saucepan. Add the tapioca and simmer for 30 minutes or until the pearls turn clear, stirring to make sure the tapioca does not stick to the bottom of the pan.

The partners behind Boba Guys, a chain of bubble-tea cafes, already made their own infusions and syrups to go with the tea leaves they imported from China, Taiwan and Japan. A few years ago, they got ...

Custards and puddings are classic comfort foods, and who doesn’t need comfort these days? I’ve been craving a creamy pudding of vanilla and tapioca (extracted from cassava root) and decided to test ...

Maybe it’s all that boba that’s been floating around in frothy milk teas. Or maybe it’s a nod to nostalgia and the creamy tapioca pudding of childhood memories. Maybe it’s a little of both. Whatever ...