It makes me so happy to see how much Alvin has grown in the past year. Compared to his first Food Wars episodes, his confidence and joke delivery in the voiceover commentary are off the charts, he's tackling more and more ambitious recipes, and he's clearly become a part of the BCU family.
my favorite joke of his will forever be "when it shows no resistance when stabbed with a knife, like me, we're going to go ahead.." gets me every time lol
@@xxhotelcrazyxx I do agree that Alvin eventually should get his own voice, but I like the theme's he's been producing on the channel. I just this we're just used to Andrew that it's weird to have another member give off a similar voice over.
@@xxhotelcrazyxx talk to me. what isn't doing it for you? not a dig just genuinely curious. nothing is the be all end all so I get it. wanna hear other thoughts
Tea snob here, if you bring your water up to about 175F degrees, steep it for 5 minutes before you strain, and then DO NOT press your leaves, you will get a rich, delicious tea concentrate without that bitterness. Steeping your tea too hot, or too long, and pressing it draws out the tannins that cause bitterness. Hope this helps someone somewhere.
Another tea snob here, temperature and steep times will vary between if it's loose leaf and packet (think ground up, they need far less steep time) - and leaf type. Like green leaf tends to need less time (and temp) than black tea. Green Tea is roughly 140-160f and usually 1-3 minutes, black leaf teas are around 180-200f and closer to around 5 minutes (YMMV Though) and I think white leaf teas are roughly inbetween.
It’s entirely possible that the reason why the tea concentrate tasted far too bitter was because the tea was pushed through the sieve. This often forces tannins out of the tea leaves.
The Great Pretender is weirdly nostalgic for me - it was my brother’s first foray into anime, and though I don’t like anime nearly as much as he, we watched Death Note together and it was really sweet! Almost as sweet as this boba looks. Lovely episode as always, Alvin and BCU!
This is either terrible or fantastic for my boba tea addiction. Ah well. Nothing ventured nothing gained! *proceeds to make an entire batch just for myself*
I've made my own boba before, and if it werent for how long it takes to roll the pearls, I'd make it all the time. Now I mostly make it for when my friends come over, or as a gift. You can freeze the dough and it keeps for a very long time.
CHEAT CODES: You can use a use sheet pan to roll many bobas at once! Place it on top of the cut squares and gently move it around in a circular motion - Roll bunches of bobas at one time!! 🙌💙
I’ve been a boba barista for two years and I approve of this method. If you don’t have a shaker, you’d typically want to put the milk tea in the cup before the ice because the ice will melt and water down the drink relatively a lot faster
I'm a fairly new boba drinker and I absolutely love the brown sugar milk boba as well. Having watched this episode I can see why it costs what it does. Those tapioca pearls are labor intensive. I also am now motivated to go get a boba treat this afternoon 😁
The pearls are usually made by a machine in a factory and sold wholesale to boba shops. For an individual vendor to make their own pearls would be unsustainable.
That looks TOTALLY SPECTACULAR!! I am going to make it for breakfast on Sunday!! My husband is going to SO LOVE IT!!! We won't be able to enjoy it every day, but I'd bet once a week is okay!! This is such an easy, and beautiful dish!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
This series is becoming one of my favourites on the BCU Keep them coming please!!! Also could you please please please bring back Sohla she was amazing ?
I commented something similar, this series is my favorite and often an instant watch for me. Even if I don't directly replicate the recipes, I enjoy the idea of a real life recipe copying an anime recipe influenced by real life....
Out of all their the new series on the channel, this one is the best. Not that the other ones were bad, this one just had an idea that was going to get the most instant clicks.
I worked at a scout camp last summer - our camp actually hosted a Vietnamese-American jamboree, and some of the scouts made boba tea at the camp, it was really refreshing having it with the hot summer days we had up there - great recipe!
I'm new to watching Amine and the fact this episode is based on the great pretender has made me feel so happy. This is one of the first animes I've found on my own to enjoy and I'm glad others who don't know of it will hopefully watch it now too 😄
The main reason I watched it was my favorite composer was doing the music for it , I’m not really into the con / heist type of animes but it was fairly enjoyable I didn’t like the ending though of the series though, but overall all it was enjoyable
Over on emmymade channel, instead of individually rolling the boba, which is often a arduous and a tedious task, you can create consistent pearls by using a carp bait machine where multiple individual spheres of consistent size can be made.
I know... "Boba" here cost like RM12 sometimes and the cheapest is RM10 which isn't a lot in us currency but for our currency... That could buy us cheap lunch
You can buy the dried boba packages from an asian supermarket. They're about $6-7 usd for bunch of bubbles. My wife learned to make it at home since the prices have gone up.
I'd really like to see Alvin make some of the fruit flavoured milk teas! I have no idea how they're made, all I know is that they use flavour powder in a lot of them but every time I attempt it they never turn out right. Specifically, the fruit flavour is super weak and idk if you're supposed to make coconut or strawberry milk tea with actual tea lol.
I love Alvin and all his content. I noticed that for the first batch of the black sugar tapioca balls that got thrown out, you used what looked like sugar "cubes" of black sugar. The second batch seemed to more resemble standard brown sugar in a bowl, was this a substitute or was the black sugar just in a different container?
We had a bubble tea station at our wedding and since we're mostly Hispanic and lactose intolerant, we asked about the milk options, and apparently normal milk tea is actually made with non-dairy creamer, which is mostly made of corn syrup and oil. So definitely on the money with the coffeemate
The teas bitter bc you boiled it. If you want better flavor and no bitterness you gotta use pre boiled water (not on the stove) and steep it until the color comes out (1-3 mins) Depending on what kind of tea you use, the first steep is just to open up the leaves.
My favourite tea is black lemon tea from Gong Cha. I have stopped getting pearls (the boba), but standard lemon tea gets some sweet preserved lemon peel which feels similar, but less chewy. Half sugar, because of my delicate stomach.
Would love to know the recipe for smaller final portions if possible, I know many people who would love to do this but don't have the space to make such large amounts of the tea in one go
It's a bit old, but can you try to do Black Tea Croquettes from Amagi Brilliant Park? Or in earl grey which I thought was the original but apparently I remembered wrong. I always wanted to know if it's possible to get a croquette to taste like tea.
I'm going to be in the minority for this probably, but I wish they'd cool it with whatever voice effects they're adding to Alvin's voice. It doesnt sound natural. Alvin's normal voice is perfectly fine..
Where I used to work, the shop used creamer powder instead of milk, cream, or creamer. You can use regular tea instead of concentrating the flavors because the powder doesn't dilute the flavors as much. But the best places imo are the ones that use regular heavy cream. Anyway still waiting on a Cooking Master Boy episode
Tea lover here! Part of the reason the tea concentrate was so bitter was because you pressed it into the sieve, which released all the super bitter tannins. For a smoother concentrate, try leaving the tea in the strainer to drip out with time. However, I get the impatience, and honestly, I enjoy a bitter tea from time to time too 🧋💜
no wonder the milk tea i made doesnt taste exactly like the ones in shops because one thing i noticed is that you need to have concentrated TEA because you’re gonna add in ice later on. Then you also need chinese black sugar than regular white or brown sugar.
I know you have some experience with tea but I'm sure a large amount of that bitterness is coming from pressing the tea leaves. Compressing tea releases the bitter components.
I am mad you didn't use Way of the Househusband for the source of the dish. It is KING over every slice of life anime(Aside from Nichijou, though I haven't watched that much, just clips.) Edit: Forgot to add that the next episode should be Tatsu's hidden vegtable dishes from Way of the Househusband(or the bear cookies).
It makes me so happy to see how much Alvin has grown in the past year. Compared to his first Food Wars episodes, his confidence and joke delivery in the voiceover commentary are off the charts, he's tackling more and more ambitious recipes, and he's clearly become a part of the BCU family.
my favorite joke of his will forever be "when it shows no resistance when stabbed with a knife, like me, we're going to go ahead.."
gets me every time lol
I find these episodes extremely boring and melancholy
@@xxhotelcrazyxx I do agree that Alvin eventually should get his own voice, but I like the theme's he's been producing on the channel. I just this we're just used to Andrew that it's weird to have another member give off a similar voice over.
@@xxhotelcrazyxx talk to me. what isn't doing it for you?
not a dig just genuinely curious. nothing is the be all end all so I get it. wanna hear other thoughts
@Rn B well I'm not a fan of anime for one...but I think mainly it's the lack of enthusiasm and monotone narration for me
Tea snob here, if you bring your water up to about 175F degrees, steep it for 5 minutes before you strain, and then DO NOT press your leaves, you will get a rich, delicious tea concentrate without that bitterness. Steeping your tea too hot, or too long, and pressing it draws out the tannins that cause bitterness. Hope this helps someone somewhere.
i absolutely hate tea but i love this tip, thanks
Another tea snob here, temperature and steep times will vary between if it's loose leaf and packet (think ground up, they need far less steep time) - and leaf type. Like green leaf tends to need less time (and temp) than black tea. Green Tea is roughly 140-160f and usually 1-3 minutes, black leaf teas are around 180-200f and closer to around 5 minutes (YMMV Though) and I think white leaf teas are roughly inbetween.
You re british
Thank u tea snob I aspire to be like u
Behold
The tea chemists
It’s entirely possible that the reason why the tea concentrate tasted far too bitter was because the tea was pushed through the sieve. This often forces tannins out of the tea leaves.
Squeezing the tea and having the tea on boil for all that time.... Not much research has been done for this episode...
@@Shaferyy what would you do differently? (Soon opening a boba shop, i’m doing my research:))
The Great Pretender is weirdly nostalgic for me - it was my brother’s first foray into anime, and though I don’t like anime nearly as much as he, we watched Death Note together and it was really sweet! Almost as sweet as this boba looks. Lovely episode as always, Alvin and BCU!
I like Boba
Me too
Me too
I like booba 🗿.
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This is either terrible or fantastic for my boba tea addiction. Ah well. Nothing ventured nothing gained! *proceeds to make an entire batch just for myself*
After you're finished please tell us how long it took you to consume 7 litres of milk tea and a pan full of boba
@@doridear1604 5 minutes
What do the balls actually do to the drink tho
@Dorian you have achieved diabetes😱
"Nothing ventured nothing gained!"
*I'M MY OWN MASTER NOW* (look, I'm a Metal Gear Rising fan, it was simply neuron activation)
I've made my own boba before, and if it werent for how long it takes to roll the pearls, I'd make it all the time. Now I mostly make it for when my friends come over, or as a gift. You can freeze the dough and it keeps for a very long time.
CHEAT CODES: You can use a use sheet pan to roll many bobas at once! Place it on top of the cut squares and gently move it around in a circular motion - Roll bunches of bobas at one time!! 🙌💙
Thank you! ❤🎉
Wait, ALVIN?! I love his videos! I didn't know he was with Babish. That's awesome!
Great work, Alvin!
I’ve been a boba barista for two years and I approve of this method. If you don’t have a shaker, you’d typically want to put the milk tea in the cup before the ice because the ice will melt and water down the drink relatively a lot faster
a... bobarista?
I'm a fairly new boba drinker and I absolutely love the brown sugar milk boba as well. Having watched this episode I can see why it costs what it does. Those tapioca pearls are labor intensive. I also am now motivated to go get a boba treat this afternoon 😁
The pearls are usually made by a machine in a factory and sold wholesale to boba shops. For an individual vendor to make their own pearls would be unsustainable.
I usually buy the pearls but where is the fun in that!! Love Boba Milk Tea & great Job to you and your crew! Subscribed!
The Great Pretender is probably one of my favorite anime of all time; Please take the time to watch it. The sound track is top notch.
And the English dub in episode one is phenomenal as well as the rest of the series. Edimura X Abigail is best couple.
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly might be the best English dub I've ever heard. I love dragon ball's dub but that's a lot of nostalgia factor
Edamame’s dub VA here. Thanks for showing Great Pretender some love!
A milkshake seems downright healthy compared to this 😂
Craaaazy how much sugar was used for this, like it makes you not wanna try ir
@@danielgyila3662 he did enough for 60 cups, no one does that much desert tea at home
@@nestorgamer9746 yeah I know, but it still requires a lot of sugar
@@danielgyila3662you’d be shocked to find out how much sugar is in your coke
@@chashubokchoy8999 Everyone knows it. Sugar is everywhere and is the biggest drug there is today, we need to stop consuming it so much
There's really no end to interesting foods from anime to try out. Loving this series with Alvin!
Great Pretender is SUCH an awesome series, highly recommend! It's funny, has lots of drama / plot twists, and just overall super fun to watch :~)
I hope we get a 3rd season, it’s such a great series.
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That looks TOTALLY SPECTACULAR!! I am going to make it for breakfast on Sunday!! My husband is going to SO LOVE IT!!! We won't be able to enjoy it every day, but I'd bet once a week is okay!! This is such an easy, and beautiful dish!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
This series is becoming one of my favourites on the BCU Keep them coming please!!! Also could you please please please bring back Sohla she was amazing ?
I commented something similar, this series is my favorite and often an instant watch for me. Even if I don't directly replicate the recipes, I enjoy the idea of a real life recipe copying an anime recipe influenced by real life....
Out of all their the new series on the channel, this one is the best. Not that the other ones were bad, this one just had an idea that was going to get the most instant clicks.
that video title really is the final piece to the puzzle of its beauty
Great Pretender, finally getting the love it deserves! And with such an awesome drink, too.
One way to keep making anime with alvin videos would be to maje every single Food Wars dish.
I've never clicked on a video so fast! Thank you, BCU, for doing an episode, not only on my favorite, but on a crazy underrated anime
May I never get tired of the way Alvin says "boba dough".
I worked at a scout camp last summer - our camp actually hosted a Vietnamese-American jamboree, and some of the scouts made boba tea at the camp, it was really refreshing having it with the hot summer days we had up there - great recipe!
I'm new to watching Amine and the fact this episode is based on the great pretender has made me feel so happy. This is one of the first animes I've found on my own to enjoy and I'm glad others who don't know of it will hopefully watch it now too 😄
YaYYYY a new anime watcher! Anime is awesome, and so is manga. If you need recommendations, just ask.
@Yusinu I'll take any you can give me! I've primarily enjoyed one's with a great group dynamic if that helps at all 😄
The main reason I watched it was my favorite composer was doing the music for it ,
I’m not really into the con / heist type of animes but it was fairly enjoyable
I didn’t like the ending though of the series though, but overall all it was enjoyable
Yes! The Great Pretender is such an underrated anime
Also Kimi ni Todoke, Fruits Basket, and Ao haru Ride. Buddy Daddies and Blue Lock for manga is also +
Great Pretender is such an underrated show
Goated and underrated anime getting some recognition finally
Over on emmymade channel, instead of individually rolling the boba, which is often a arduous and a tedious task, you can create consistent pearls by using a carp bait machine where multiple individual spheres of consistent size can be made.
For anyone who hasn't watched this anime, It's a must watch. One of the best.
I agree. Definitely underrated
I love his voice ❤❤🥰😻
The Babish cheeky boba grab at the end made this video for me
Boba is so expensive nowadays, but I still end up getting it.
As soon as it became popular in the west the prices skyrocketed
I know... "Boba" here cost like RM12 sometimes and the cheapest is RM10 which isn't a lot in us currency but for our currency... That could buy us cheap lunch
You can buy the dried boba packages from an asian supermarket. They're about $6-7 usd for bunch of bubbles. My wife learned to make it at home since the prices have gone up.
@@skywanderer Prices are getting higher from the 90s when it became popular in the rest of Asia, way before the west.
I'd really like to see Alvin make some of the fruit flavoured milk teas! I have no idea how they're made, all I know is that they use flavour powder in a lot of them but every time I attempt it they never turn out right. Specifically, the fruit flavour is super weak and idk if you're supposed to make coconut or strawberry milk tea with actual tea lol.
I just so happen to be watching Great Pretender. Im almost finishing it, and this video was made in such a convenient time.
Woah I used to work at The Alley so that's honestly kinda cool seeing it in the anime and your recipe!
This anime is great. I'd love to see you make.... whatever it is that the MC is making in Weathering With You, with the chips and noodles!
I hope he makes a mini-series about recipes from "Today's Menu for the Emiya Family." Emiya Shiro makes nice dishes that I wish to see in real life.
I love Alvin and all his content. I noticed that for the first batch of the black sugar tapioca balls that got thrown out, you used what looked like sugar "cubes" of black sugar. The second batch seemed to more resemble standard brown sugar in a bowl, was this a substitute or was the black sugar just in a different container?
We used a bit of both!
Great vid, and series, def trying this. My dude Alvin out here wearing a Rolex Daytona making anime food/drinks like a boss 😅
2:53 If you know ya know. Makes every Milk Tea Boba ever so perfect!
Sugar to liquid ratio is mind blowing. Sneaky how the sweetness doesn’t make it undrinkable. ❤
We had a bubble tea station at our wedding and since we're mostly Hispanic and lactose intolerant, we asked about the milk options, and apparently normal milk tea is actually made with non-dairy creamer, which is mostly made of corn syrup and oil. So definitely on the money with the coffeemate
You can use the tips of your fingers and roll out 2-4 at a time, depending on how well you grasp the concept
The whole bucket's worth is probably going to be gone by the weekend 😂
I remember Alvin struggling with making Boba Pearls in Making It Big.
The teas bitter bc you boiled it. If you want better flavor and no bitterness you gotta use pre boiled water (not on the stove) and steep it until the color comes out (1-3 mins) Depending on what kind of tea you use, the first steep is just to open up the leaves.
Me just casually watching him making food from Animes I didnt even knew existed
I love this anime! One of my favorites :)
I like tea in winters 🥶❄️
My favourite tea is black lemon tea from Gong Cha. I have stopped getting pearls (the boba), but standard lemon tea gets some sweet preserved lemon peel which feels similar, but less chewy. Half sugar, because of my delicate stomach.
You had the fancy sugar and then just went “whelp, I messed it up, time for basic brown sugar”
can't stop watching😋
Loved the great pretender!!! Always killing it with the recipes Alvin 🤗
Would love to know the recipe for smaller final portions if possible, I know many people who would love to do this but don't have the space to make such large amounts of the tea in one go
im hoping they post the written recipe as well
I like to trying this at home
Amazing recipe and very thankful
Love from Pakistan
It's a bit old, but can you try to do Black Tea Croquettes from Amagi Brilliant Park? Or in earl grey which I thought was the original but apparently I remembered wrong. I always wanted to know if it's possible to get a croquette to taste like tea.
That looks like my next endeavor. Now I know this exists, ill be looking for this.
I'm going to be in the minority for this probably, but I wish they'd cool it with whatever voice effects they're adding to Alvin's voice. It doesnt sound natural. Alvin's normal voice is perfectly fine..
I love Boba and I love The Great Pretender. This is a win
Can your next Anime with Alvin video be making the pancakes that Ash and Prof. Kukui ate from Pokemon Sun and Moon episode, "Racing to a Big Event"
If theyre doing ANYTHING from Sun and Moon, they're making malasadas
You should make one with the popping boba!
Where I used to work, the shop used creamer powder instead of milk, cream, or creamer. You can use regular tea instead of concentrating the flavors because the powder doesn't dilute the flavors as much. But the best places imo are the ones that use regular heavy cream. Anyway still waiting on a Cooking Master Boy episode
The Great Pretender is the 👌 best!!! Great job on this!!!😁😁😁😁🙂🙃🙂🙃
This is the only tea I’ll accept
Perhaps one of my fav episodes w Alvin!
I was hoping we'd get to see how they make those popping boba and the perfectly round/smooth/black pearls of tapioca. Ah well
PLEASE! make some of the dishes from campfire cooking in another world!
i love harry potter
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When we gonna get that obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice, giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake recipe.
At Starbucks, when someone adds espresso to Chai, they call it a dirty chai. So I guess the boba with the shot would be a dirty boba
Tea lover here! Part of the reason the tea concentrate was so bitter was because you pressed it into the sieve, which released all the super bitter tannins. For a smoother concentrate, try leaving the tea in the strainer to drip out with time. However, I get the impatience, and honestly, I enjoy a bitter tea from time to time too 🧋💜
Also adding on steeping the leaves at around 200F/93C would also help reduce the bitterness by keeping the PH balance lower.
The black tiger stripe boba tea is also my favorite. ♥
I like boba so much that’s why I want to make it own.
Cauliflower and noodles… baked potato on the side.
- The Office, S4 E3 😉
The one with coffee is Yin Yuan, popular drink in Hong Kong :D
I love everything about this video
So... is a Anime with Alvin book coming out? Asking for a friend 😆
On the next episode, make Ryu's ramen from the Street Fighter anime!
I love how he made the same mistake here as he did in tasty's 100lb boba episode 😂
this is so wonderful because i just got tapioca starch and have been looking for how to use it!
This anime is great. I'd love to see you make
Man, I don't even like Boba, but this is making me crave it
Ooooh Rolex Daytona great watch 🔥
If you mix half milk tea half coffee, you get Hong Kong YingYang tea
I'd love to see Jack Reacher's large food order from Reacher
Day 67 of petitioning Babish to make the Triple Fried Egg Sandwich with Chilli Sauce and Chutney from Red Dwarf
I love this! Thank you… been trying to find the perfect milk, I will give coffee mate a try
Food Idea: Ben 10 Chili Fries (Both UAF and Omniverse).
no wonder the milk tea i made doesnt taste exactly like the ones in shops because one thing i noticed is that you need to have concentrated TEA because you’re gonna add in ice later on. Then you also need chinese black sugar than regular white or brown sugar.
you should try cold brewing your tea for boba milk tea you can get away with less milk less sugar and the flavor is crazy
I can't stop watching
Coffee mate has lots of oils. I noticed the place I go used lactose free milk!
I've been watching Golden Kamuy recently and man it's got some interesting looking food. Any chance we could get some episodes depicting those?
Can't stop watching
A fantastic series and this a great recipe
I know you have some experience with tea but I'm sure a large amount of that bitterness is coming from pressing the tea leaves. Compressing tea releases the bitter components.
Oversteeping as well. Herbals get stronger but actual tea leaves release sooo much tannins when oversteeped
A milk shake seems downright healthy comparted to this
New addition to the bcu get ready for gaming with Gary
I am mad you didn't use Way of the Househusband for the source of the dish. It is KING over every slice of life anime(Aside from Nichijou, though I haven't watched that much, just clips.) Edit: Forgot to add that the next episode should be Tatsu's hidden vegtable dishes from Way of the Househusband(or the bear cookies).