Tapioca is a tuber crop and mainly found/consumed in Kerala and southern part of Tamil Nadu. In Malayalam (Kerala) it is known by different names like "Kappa", 'Chini", "Marachini" etc. and Tamil (TN) it is known as "Maravalli" or "Maravalli Kizhangu". It's full of starch/energy giving and well accepted by the working peasants. Different forms of tapioca products/disches are available like, tapioca chips, tapioca finger chips, tapioca pappad - its very famous in southern most Kerala, tapioca uppuma, tapioca halwa, tapioca based infant feed, etc.
It's in the name. Tapioca is in Tapioca pudding.
tapioca pearls
A suitable substitute for minute tapioca in recipes is tapioca flour or tapioca starch. These can be used in equal amounts as a replacement for minute tapioca in recipes.
Tapioca is black when it is in bubble tea, but is white in tapioca pudding.
Tapioca is a root
A suitable substitute for minute tapioca in a recipe is tapioca flour or tapioca pearls that have been ground into a powder. These alternatives can help thicken the recipe in a similar way to minute tapioca.
i need the tapioca
Tapioca comes from an underground root.
Tapioca does not come from a bean, it is extracted from the root of the cassava plant.
They are balls of tapioca. Go to http://en.wikipdedia.org/, and search for Tapioca for more info.
Tapioca was one of my mother's favorite desserts.