Kawaii Café Bubble Tea is an adorably cute, graphically appealing tutorial guide with recipes for bubble tea/boba with included recipes by Stacey Kwong & Beyah del Mundo. Content first published in 2020 as Boba, this graphic update and re-release was out 9th Jan 2024 from Quarto on their Rock Point imprint. It's 128 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats.
This book is a wonderful resource, especially for fans of bubble tea who
find it difficult to source their daily drinks or are thinking about
the cost over the long run. Plus it's so much fun to DIY!
It has a nice, easy to follow layout. The introductory chapter and how-to tutorial (~30% of the content) cover the basic hows and whys of the tools, ingredients, and toppings. The following chapters cover the standards: fruit teas, milk teas, and specialty drinks.
Each of the recipes includes an introductory description, ingredients listed in a bullet point sidebar (US measurements with metric/SI units in parentheses *yay*!), step by step instructions, as well a footers with tips and alternatives. The graphics are colorful and very cute (see book cover). The earlier edition had a number of photographs, but this edition has a complete graphic overhaul and the new aesthetic is pastel and kawaii with line drawn illustrations.
The recipe ingredients themselves are (mostly) easily sourced and will be available at well stocked grocery stores. There are a very few ingredients which might be a little more difficult to source, but definitely nothing that is 'way out there'.
All in all, -very- well written, beautifully presented drinks, made from tasty ingredients which are easily sourced and packaged into an adorably appealing format.
Five stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
It has a nice, easy to follow layout. The introductory chapter and how-to tutorial (~30% of the content) cover the basic hows and whys of the tools, ingredients, and toppings. The following chapters cover the standards: fruit teas, milk teas, and specialty drinks.
Each of the recipes includes an introductory description, ingredients listed in a bullet point sidebar (US measurements with metric/SI units in parentheses *yay*!), step by step instructions, as well a footers with tips and alternatives. The graphics are colorful and very cute (see book cover). The earlier edition had a number of photographs, but this edition has a complete graphic overhaul and the new aesthetic is pastel and kawaii with line drawn illustrations.
The recipe ingredients themselves are (mostly) easily sourced and will be available at well stocked grocery stores. There are a very few ingredients which might be a little more difficult to source, but definitely nothing that is 'way out there'.
All in all, -very- well written, beautifully presented drinks, made from tasty ingredients which are easily sourced and packaged into an adorably appealing format.
Five stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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