To make tapioca balls, first a dough is made by kneading small-sized tapioca pearls in warm water and minced pork is mixed with condiments, such as ground white pepper, ground roasted peanuts, fish sauce, onion and palm sugar.

Then, the minced pork is wrapped in the dough and steamed on a piece of cloth spanned over the mouth of a large pot, and covered by a cone-shaped lid, a method akin to that of making kanom pahk moh.

After this process of steaming, the balls have become semi-transparent (fig.), like the ones seen in this picture on the left.