The Pearl Milk Tea Festival to be held in Osaka on December 18 combines various snacks with pearls. The Japanese have a big brain hole and make dumplings with milk tea pearls.
All things can be pearls. The Japanese are crazy series: categories include pearl dumplings, Mapo Tofu, pearl covered rice, pearl oyster fried, pearl peanut soup, pearl meat soup, pearl salt crisp chicken, pearl Oolong Shufu Lei, pearl radish silk cake.