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Each bubble tea kit contains all the ingredients you need to make 8 regular or 4 large bubble tea drinks.
- 4 tea bags
- 4 flavours (fruit syrup or milk powder)
- 4 toppings (bubbles, jelly, crystal boba or tapioca pearls)
- 4 recyclable bubble tea straws
- 2 Bubble Panda stickers
- 1 bubble tea recipe sheet
What are your delivery times?
We offer FREE DELIVERY on all of our boxes. We use Royal Mail 48 hour tracked delivery. After placing an order, you will be provided with your tracking information within 1-3 working days.
What else do I need to make bubble tea at home?
Your Bubble Panda box contains all of the ingredients to make the perfect Bubble Tea from the comfort of your own home. You will just need ice (a good two handfuls per drink), boiling water, a mixing bowl or shaker, and of course a glass. If your box contains black tapioca pearls you will also need a small saucepan as these require simple cooking. Each Bubble Panda box contains a step by step recipe sheet.
Are your boxes suitable for vegetarians and vegans?
All of our ingredients are suitable for vegetarians. Our fruit subscription boxes are suitable for vegans. For further information regarding ingredients, allergies and certification see the ingredients tab on our product pages.
Can I choose my own flavours?
Our monthly subscription boxes contain specially selected ingredients to make either all fruit bubble teas (fruit box) or fruit and milk bubbles teas (mixed box). If you’d like to choose your own flavours, then get creative with our Build Your Own Bubble Panda Box.
May 24, 2022
What is in Bubble Tea?
What is bubble tea?
You might be thinking, but it’s actually been a hot (or cold!) favourite in countries like China since the 1980s. Bubble teas can come either sweet with milk or savoury and contain anything from fruit juice to herbal extract!
What are the bubbles?
Bubble Tea is an incredibly unique looking beverage, made by blending a tea base with milk or fruit syrups. To add their signature “bubbles” – yummy popping bubbles, jelly or tapioca pearls are added that sit at the bottom of your cup or glass; this delicious drink can be served either hot or iced cold as well (great for those summer days)!
How was it invented?
While it may sound like a weird idea at first, iced coffee has been around for quite some time now and is becoming more popular every day. A few years ago in Taiwan there was only one company that made this type of drink – called Chun Shui Tang (a teahouse). One morning while they were all sitting down getting bored during their meeting someone said to Lin HsiuHui “Whatabout if we added some dessert?” She then thought about what kind would be best suited since everyone else seemed happy with everything already laid out before them so she decided on fen yuan or tapioca pudding which happened
November 21, 2020
Hot Mocha Milk Tea & Chocolate Bubbles
Hot Mocha Milk Tea & Chocolate Bubbles

Winter Warmer
Time to switch it up! Who says bubble tea has to be served cold? On these chilly winter days, why not get cosy and treat yourself to a hot bubble tea? It’s super simple like the usual recipe but no ice, more water and you get to top it with lashings of whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles!
Ingredients
– Assam Black Tea
– Mocha Milk Powder
– Chocolate Bubbles
– 375ml Boiling Water
– Whipped Cream
– Chocolate Sprinkles
(The Recipe)
Step 1: Add 375ml of freshly boiled water to your Assam black tea bag (in a large bowl or shaker) and allow the tea to brew for 2-3 minutes.
Step 2: Remove the tea bag and add the mocha milk powder to the tea. Sweeten to your liking, by adding the optional sugar sachet. Mix with a spoon for 20-30 seconds, until the powder and sugar are dissolved.
Step 3: Pour the mixture into a glass or mug, leaving space for the topping!
Step 4: Add the chocolate bubbles to the glass. Add a splash of milk if you like and indulge in toppings of your choice – we have used whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.
Step 5: Finish with a straw, snuggle up and enjoy your hot bubble tea!
September 28, 2020
How To Make Tiger Milk Bubble Tea
How To Make Tiger Milk Bubble Tea

Up your bubble tea game with the addition of tiger brown sugar syrup. Not only does it decorate the glass, it tastes amazing too! Get Instagram-ready by following these simple steps to make the perfect Tiger Milk Bubble Tea.
To make Tiger Milk Bubble Tea, we recommend using Assam Black Tea, Milk Tea Powder, Black Tapioca Pearls and Tiger Brown Sugar Syrup. All of these ingredients are available here in our Build Your Own Bubble Tea Box.
Step 1: Add 150ml of boiled water to your tea bag (in a large bowl or shaker) and allow the tea to brew for 2-3 minutes.
Step 2: Remove the tea bag and add the milk powder to the tea. Mix with a spoon for 20-30 seconds.
Step 3: Add two handfuls of ice (approx. 6 large ice cubes) to your bowl or shaker and stir or shake until the mixture is cool, then add 100ml of milk or milk alternative and stir again.
Step 4: Spoon the cooked tapioca pearls (you can use bubbles or crystal boba here instead) in to the glass. For tapioca cooking instructions go to thebubblepanda.com/tapioca
Step 5: Pour the tiger brown sugar syrup over the tapioca pearls.
Step 6: Using a spoon, drag the tapioca pearls and syrup up the sides of the glass.
Step 7: Pour the milk bubble tea mixture, including ice, in to the glass. Top up with more ice if needed!
Step 8: Finish with a straw, sit back and enjoy!
June 5, 2020
Lemon & Blueberry Bubble Tea
Lemon & Blueberry Bubble Tea

A Match Made in Heaven
Take a delicately blended black tea flavoured with oil from the rind of bergamot orange, paired with zingy lemon and finished with a pop of sweet juicy blueberry… it’s your refreshing summer cooler sorted!
Ingredients
– Earl Grey Tea
– Lemon Syrup
– Blueberry Bubbles
– 250ml boiling water
– Two good handfuls of ice
(The Recipe)
Step 1: Add 250ml of freshly boiled water to your Earl Grey tea bag (in a large bowl or shaker) and allow to brew for 2-3 minutes.
Step 2: Remove the tea bag and add the lemon syrup to the tea. Mix with a spoon for 20-30 seconds.
Step 3: Add two good handfuls of ice to your bowl or shaker and stir or shake until the mixture is cool.
Step 4: Add the blueberry bubbles to your glass.
Step 5: Pour the mixture, including ice, into a large glass or share between two smaller glasses, leaving space for the topping!
Step 6: Finish with a straw, sit back and enjoy the mouthwatering beauty of lemon & blueberry bubble tea!
June 2, 2020
How To Make Bubble Tea
How To Make Bubble Tea

Before You Start
Your Bubble Panda box contains all of the delicious ingredients to make the perfect bubble tea. All you need is plenty of ice (a good two handfuls per drink), boiling water, a mixing bowl or shaker and of course a glass. If your box contains tapioca pearls, don’t forget that these require simple cooking, which takes around 20 minutes.
(The Recipe)
Step 1: Add 250ml of freshly boiled water to your tea bag (in a large bowl or shaker) and allow the tea to brew for 2-3 minutes.
Step 2: Remove the tea bag and add the fruit syrup or milk powder to the tea. If you are making a milk bubble tea, you can optionally add the sugar sachets to sweeten to your liking. Mix with a spoon for 20-30 seconds.
Step 3: Add two good handfuls of ice to your bowl or shaker and stir or shake until the mixture is cool.
Step 4: Pour the mixture, including ice, into a large glass or share between two smaller glasses, leaving space for the topping!
Step 5: Add your topping (bubbles, jelly or tapioca pearls) to the glass. You can also add a splash of milk to a milk bubble tea.
Step 6: Finish with a straw, sit back and enjoy your drink!
April 26, 2020
How To Cook Tapioca Pearls
How To Cook Tapioca Pearls

Tapioca pearls are translucent balls produced from tapioca, a starch extracted from the root of the cassava plant. When cooked they have a distinctively chewy texture. They make the perfect topping for bubble tea and are particularly popular in milk teas.
The Quick Guide (20 minutes)
Step 1: Add 400ml of boiling water to a saucepan.
Step 2: Carefully pour the tapioca pearls into the water.
Step 3: Reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 15 minutes, stirring regularly.
Step 4: Drain the cooked pearls through a sieve and rinse with cold water until cool.
Step 5: Add the pearls straight in to your drink, or store at room temperature. Must be consumed within 4-6 hours.
Not in a rush? Try this for added flavour (50 minutes)
Step 1: Add 400ml of boiling water to a saucepan.
Step 2: Carefully pour the tapioca pearls into the water.
Step 3: Reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 30 minutes, stirring regularly.
Step 4: Take off the heat, put a lid on the saucepan and leave for 15 minutes.
Step 4: Drain the cooked pearls through a sieve and rinse with cold water until cool.
Step 5: Add the pearls straight in to your drink, or store at room temperature. Must be consumed within 4-6 hours.
January 10, 2020
What Is Bubble Tea?
Bubble tea is a drink that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s. In bubble tea, there are large chewy tapioca balls called “bubbles.” Bubble tea also has a variety of other flavors and usually has milk or fruit added to it.
Bubble tea usually comes in a large cup with the bubble tea ingredients added to the bottom. After you order bubble tea, you use a special wide straw to suck up the toppings. Then, once you have sucked up all the bubbles, usually after chewing them for awhile, you can enjoy drinking your bubble tea.
Bubble Tea is an incredibly unique looking beverage, Bubble tea is a Taiwanese recipe made by blending a tea base with milk, fruit and fruit juices, then adding the signature “bubbles” – yummy tapioca pearls that sit at the bottom.
These delicious fruit or tea infusions can be served either piping hot or iced cold, making a delicious and ever-so-quirky drink and snack. Bubble tea is served in transparent cups with a fat straw so that – as you sip – the tapioca balls (also known as “pearls” or “boba”) come shooting up it and can be chewed as you swallow down the delicious liquid. It’s called bubble tea both because of the tapioca balls, and the floating “bubbles” created by the vigorous shaking involved in its blending.
Who Invented Bubble Tea?
There is no documented evidence about the invention of bubble tea, but as with many teas, there is a story around it! Rumour has it that the blend first appeared in Asia in the 1980s. Just visit Taiwan or Hong Kong and you can’t help but notice the unique bubble teashops on every corner. Taiwanese tea stands became very popular in the 1980s as a post-work pick me up and place to hang out. This created a certain competitive atmosphere in the tea market, and merchants started searching for and creating ever more inventive variations on their teas and beverages.
It is said that a teahouse called Chun Shui Tang in Taichung began serving Chinese tea cold – having adopted the idea from Japanese-style iced coffee. Just a few years later, Chun Shui’s product development manager, one Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui was bored at a staff meeting. On the spur of the moment, she decided to dump her Taiwanese dessert called fen yuan—a sweetened tapioca pudding—into her Assam iced tea and drink it. It was so good that they decided to add it to the menu, where it soon became the franchise’s top-selling product. Soon after seeing the success of this drink at one teahouse, concessions all over Taiwan started adding tapioca pearls and different fruit flavours to their iced teas, and so began bubble tea as we now know it!