Sago comes in both large and small sizes, with the slightly smaller ones often found in the market, and the most traditional is made from starch extracted from the pith of the Sago coconut tree (also known as Sagaya, Shagaya), which is processed by hand.

In fact, large grains of sago is also a very common ingredient, but people often do not think they are sago, such as pearl milk tea, inside the grain "pearl" is also a kind of sago (also used in the powder round), and a variety of flavors of the "pearl", such as Chocolate or a variety of fruit butter, are because of the addition of other things.