I’ve shared my love of boba tea before, but like all good things, you just can’t afford to go to a shop and buy it all the time. So I started trying out the different J Way boba kits you can buy at the store. While they’re still more expensive than making it from scratch, they’re way cheaper than going out for tea, and we’ve gotten to try a lot of different flavors. So far, my favorites are the matcha (no surprise there, because I love matcha!), and the taro, which was kind of a surprise to me, because I didn’t really even know what taro was before we tried it! They also happen to be the two prettiest, in my opinion, in lovely, bright shades of green and purple. We’ve also tried some other milk tea flavors, and a fruity one, too, and they’ve all been delicious!

I would like to get to the point where I make my own boba pearls, but that still scares me a little, but I did get a bag of taro boba at the international market, and tried a recipe I found online for iced hot chocolate boba tea, which was really, really tasty! Next up, I’d like to try some pre-packaged popping boba, because I have some ideas how I’d like to use them, too.

Do you have a favorite flavor of boba tea?