Food & Tea for Easter: Making Bubble Tea 🍹

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Last Friday has come to know as Good Friday (Holy Friday/Great Friday/Great and Holy Friday), and last Saturday was Holy Saturday (Black Saturday/Easter Eve). This Sunday—Easter—we are undergoing an at-home shelter holiday. For Christians, Easter Sunday as the day of Jesus Christ's resurrection needed some rituals to celebrate. For some, it is just another bank holiday to go out for fun. Amid lockdown, is 'staying at home' all the time still shockingly new and outlandish to you? 

Since we need to stay at home during the outbreak of Covid-19. I grab an apron to do some feel-good morning breakfast and afternoon tea. I have tried to make the original taste of Taiwanese Bubble Tea, and it was quite successful. If in ordinary days, I suppose have no time to experiment. Cooking and drinking are definitely two ways of healing mentally and physically 💝as long as you choose good ingredients for your own body.

Which one do you like? 

My Easter Breakfast with sunshine

Bubble tea, praised as a sweet treat that went global by BBC (Source: 04 Feb 2020, BBC), is also called pearl tea or boba tea. It has now become popular worldwide, and I found one authentic Taiwanese store selling this style product in West London--Dragon Cat Cafe outside Hammersmith Tube Station. 

There is also one store selling this tea in York City; however, I never bought one from there as I know the York one is not the real taste from Taiwan. Yes! Bubble milk tea is actually a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Tainan and Taichung city (south-central Taiwan) in the 1980s.

Its recipe combines milk, flavoured tea, and tapioca pearls, mixing up sugar together to drink through an extra-large straw and chewed.

Making a bubble milk tea properly is not difficult to arrange. We have really good, thick, and quality tea—Yorkshire tea, and fresh local milk, the only unmade stuff is the 'bubbles' as the chewing topping.

That is not that hard as well if you are able to get a pack of raw bubbles in any oriental supermarket. Just put these small balls into boiling water for 3 minutes, waiting for 2 minutes, and then move them into cold milk (iced water) afterward for 2 minutes. Done!

Taiwanese Bubble Milk Tea with Easter Tea Towel

CNN News: The rise of bubble tea, one of Taiwan'smost beloved beverages

這個復活節的療癒食物和茶

上星期五被稱為耶穌受難日（聖星期五/大星期五/大聖日），而上星期六是聖星期六（黑色星期六/復活節前夕）。這個星期天（復活節），我們正在家裡進行庇護假期。對於許多基督徒而言，復活節（耶穌基督復活的日子）需要一些儀式來慶祝。而對另外某些人來說，這只是另一個出遊的假期。在封鎖期間，對您而言「一直待在家裡」仍然令人震驚又陌生嗎？

既然於在Covid-19爆發期間我們需要待在家裡。我就穿起圍裙來做些早飯和下午茶。我嘗試作原味的台灣泡沬奶茶，並且非常成功。如果在平常的日子裡，我想應沒有時間做實驗了。只要您為自己的身體選擇合適的食材，做飯和喝酒絕對是療癒心理和身體的兩種方式。

泡沬奶茶被英國廣播公司（BBC）推崇為全球性甜品（來源：BBC 2020年2月4日），也被稱為珍珠奶茶或波霸奶茶。現在它已在世界流行，在倫敦有許多道地口味。約克市也有一家商店出售這種茶。但是，我從來沒有從那裡買過，因為我知道約克那家的不是從台灣來的真正口味。是的!珍珠奶茶實際上是1980年代在台南和台中市（台灣中南部）發明的一種用台灣茶的飲料。它的配方結合了牛奶，不同口味茶和木薯珍珠，和糖混合在一起，通過超大吸管飲用，然後咀嚼。

適當地製作泡沫奶茶並不難。 我們有非常好，濃厚和優質的茶-約克郡茶和新鮮的本地牛奶，唯一的未煮熟的東西是作為配料的“泡沫。但是如果您能夠在任何東方超市買到一包原料’泡沫’，那也沒有那麼困難。 只需將這些小球放入沸水中3分鐘，等待2分鐘，然後將其移入冷牛奶(最好是冰水)中2分鐘。 完成了！