Bring small pot of water to boil and add about 1/4 cup sugar. Add in tapioca and let them float to surface. 

Bring water to a low boil and place lid over pot, adjusting lid to allow steam to release. Boil for 5 minutes, then remove boba from water and place into a medium sized bowl with honey (about 1/4 to 1/2 cup so that all the boba touches the honey). Make sure the bowl is large enough so the boba are not all piled on top of each other because they will stick to each other once they cool. 

Let boba sit in honey until it is ready to be eaten, then put into your milk tea right before. Boba lose their consistency soon after sitting in milk tea so don't put in too soon. The boba stay chewy for a few hours if you just let them sit in the honey. Don't remove from the honey as they will end up sticking together. Don't refrigerate as they will completely lose their consistency and become brittle.