I tried to make Bubbleology bubble tea at home

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00:00right by now everybody must know that i like a gimmick so when i saw that in morrison's which

00:13is a bubbleology make it yourself taro milk bubble tea um it's two pound thirty i thought

00:21yep i'm going to give it a go it says just add milk and ice well when i've read the instructions

00:28on the back um it's not quite so simple you need a blender i actually don't have a working blender

00:33um microwave um yeah it isn't just a case of putting this into a glass and off you go with

00:42a straw you've got to prepare the tapioca balls and the milk so i'm gonna have a go um but like i

00:50say i don't have a blender um so i've got to get this is um a heat resistant glass so don't worry

00:57i've got to put hot water in there it says hot but hot boiling i don't know it doesn't specify

01:03um the taro milk in there then put some cold water then have microwaved the tapioca balls and left

01:10them to cool mix it all together and i should be ready to go so it's not quite so simple um but

01:17i'm looking forward to it the only other thing i would say is quite calorific surprise um 375 calories

01:27in wandering so that's a meal for some people you know um so bear that in mind anyway let's give it

01:34a go and this is what you get inside your packet um you're expecting something lovely and purple

01:40that's what you get that doesn't look appealing does it but anyway let's go these are the tapioca

01:47balls they're gonna go in the microwave for 40 seconds at 750 watts so that's 100 ml it's actually

01:55boiling water because it doesn't say not to i'm about to put the powder in now

02:00i'm going to dissolve that and then i'm going to add the 200 ml of cold milk then

02:08add the tapioca pearls um and then it's okay so this is what it looks like um it does look like

02:17the picture it's quite a nice purpley color um i've not made it with the blender obviously and

02:23i haven't put any ice in um so it's probably not as good as it could be um but i'm going to give it

02:30a try and tell you what i think okay so it's quite malty it's quite uh comforting uh sweet but not

02:39overly sweet um i've not tried one of these balls yet hang on i can't get the balls up even though

02:47i've got a really wide straw um yeah it just reminds me of like a bedtime like comforting

02:57milky drink um this would be a lot better i think with ice if it was ice cold it would be much more

03:03refreshing um it's quite nice though um i might stick it in the fridge and come back to it later

03:09was it a faff to make yes um is it nice yes would i buy it again probably not just because it's

03:18not the kind of thing that you can just in an instant whizz up you've got to have a microwave a

03:24blender ice there's several steps i mean it is just a bit of a faff for me but if you wanted to give

03:32it a go it's a bit of fun make it with the children um yeah it's full of sugar obviously three

03:38it's nearly 400 calories um but it's not bad um i wouldn't buy it again i bought it for the novelty

03:45and you probably would too um but yeah it looks all right doesn't it i wanted to just come back

03:53because i hadn't eaten one of the balls got them out with a spoon these don't taste like the balls i've

04:01had anywhere else in a bubble tea um they don't have that thin edge that you can um bite into and

04:09then it spurts out these are just like chewy chewy and kind of um again there's like a malty kind of

04:17taste to it um not unpleasant but not what i'm looking for i wanted that like refreshing burst in

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