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4 to 8
servingsEasy
By Angela Dimayuga and Ligaya Mishan
Published 2021
Made with starch extracted from the cassava root, sago, also known as tapioca pearls, are translucent, slippery, chewy orbs that squeak between the teeth, a texture that the Taiwanese call Q (or, if something’s really chewy, QQ). You find these little spheres in desserts across Asia, studding snowy heights of shaved ice and swirling in the depths of boba tea, aka bubble tea, a drink invented in Taiwan in the 1980s. If you make your own, you can give them any flavor and color you like, but t