{"id":2535,"date":"2019-06-09T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.venividiedi.net\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2019-06-09T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:35:21","slug":"boba-milk-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.venividiedi.net\/?p=2535","title":{"rendered":"Boba Milk Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-brown-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">Houston is going all out with the summer temps lately. This weekend was forecasted to be breaking all-time high. No wonder I&#8217;ve been getting cravings for boba milk tea aka bubble tea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-brown-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">A trip to your favorite Asian grocery store and navigating through its parking is the most difficult process in making this cold tea. Once you&#8217;ve got the ingredients, everything else is easy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-brown-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">First get the tapioca pearls. You will need to boil these in 3-4 minutes depending on how soft you want it to be. Mine is exactly 3 minutes and 43 seconds. Haha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-light-brown-background-color wp-block-paragraph\">There are several flavors to choose from. I got my favorites: the green tea, Thai tea and plain milk tea. Follow the packages for direction. Add cooked tapioca, then ice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston is going all out with the summer temps lately. This weekend was forecasted to be breaking all-time high. No wonder I&#8217;ve been getting cravings for boba milk tea aka bubble tea. A trip to your favorite Asian grocery store and navigating through its parking is the most difficult process in making this cold tea. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venividiedi.net\/?p=2535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boba Milk Tea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-h-town-houston","category-stuff-i-cook","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71dzN-ET","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2772,"url":"https:\/\/www.venividiedi.net\/?p=2772","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":0},"title":"High Tea at the Ritz (London)","author":"certifiedfoodie","date":"May 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the tea experience that started it all. 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