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Cooking with Tapioca

One ingredient,
your whole pearl menu.

Tapioca pearls are the chewy heart of bubble tea. They carry no flavour of their own — which is exactly why they pair with every premix on your menu. Cook once, then drop them into milk teas, brown sugar lattes, fruit teas, dirty lattes and desserts.

Cooked black tapioca pearls for bubble tea
Where Pearls Go

The drinks tapioca builds.

Because pearls are a neutral, chewy base, one pack works across your entire drinks board. Here is where café teams reach for them most.

Classic Milk Teas

The original bubble tea. Any milk-tea premix over ice with a scoop of cooked pearls at the bottom.

Pearls = the signature chew

Brown Sugar Pearl Lattes

Pearls steeped in brown sugar syrup, streaked up a cup of milk — the tiger-stripe look that sells itself.

Pearls = the hero, front and centre

Fruit Teas

Yuzu, watermelon, kaffir lime and other fruit bases turn into a textured drink the moment pearls go in.

Pearls = chew against bright fruit

Dirty Lattes

A bold espresso shot poured over pearls and milk for the layered “dirty” look that is trending hard.

Pearls = the chewy bed under the pour

Desserts & Floats

Beyond drinks — pearls in coconut pudding, sundaes, falooda and ice-cream floats for a dessert menu.

Pearls = texture in the bowl

Slushes & Frappes

Blended icy drinks finished with a layer of warm pearls — hot-cold contrast customers love.

Pearls = the warm surprise
How to Prepare

Cook once, then build.

Two formats, two methods. Boil-pack pearls for high-volume kitchens; instant sachets for speed and single servings. Cook them, then use across any drink above.

Boil-Pack · 500gCooking Raw Tapioca Pearls
Traditional boiling method — about 30 min cook + 35 min steam
1
Weigh pearls. Use a 1:10 ratio — pearls to water.
2
Boil water. Bring to a rolling boil first.
3
Add & stir. Tip in pearls, stir 2–3 min.
430
Low heat 30 min. Cover, lid slightly open.
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Steam 35 min. Off heat, lid on, rest.
6
Rinse. Cold water, mix gently.
7
Sweeten. Brown sugar or syrup to taste.
8
Serve. Best within 8 hours.
Cooked pearls are best used within 8 hours — cook fresh for each service.
Instant · 30gPreparing Instant Pearls
No boiling — ready in 2–3 minutes. Microwave or stovetop.
1
Open the bag. Single-serve 30g sachet.
2
Tip into a bowl (microwave-safe) or pan.
3
Add sweetener. Brown sugar or syrup.
4
Heat 2–3 min. Microwave or low flame.
5
Stir & serve. Tip into your drink.
No skill needed — ideal for DIY cups, events, pop-ups and quick-serve.
Pairs With Everything

Add pearls to any premix.

Tapioca is flavour-neutral, so it works with the full Tea Planet range. Pick a base, drop in cooked pearls, and you have a signature pearl drink. A few favourites:

Every milk-tea, fruit-tea and latte premix in the range takes pearls the same way — cook once, scoop, and serve. Brown sugar syrup turns any of them into a tiger-stripe pearl latte.

Stock the pearls behind every order.

Classic black and Taiwanese pearls in boil-pack and instant formats — built for cafés, cloud kitchens and DIY menus across India.