Rumika Suzuki Hillyer

Review of UBAE

We love ube more than anything that s why we can...

We love ube more than anything that s why we can t fall in love with this place.

We were so stoked to try their items. I ve had their cheese cake, mini tarts, Fran, mamon, and cookies, but they just don t have enough ube flavor. If I close my eyes, I can t really tell that I m eating ube desserts. Amongst what we tried, mamon had the strongest ube halaya flavor, but even with that I wish I could taste more ube! I detected some textures of ube from cookie, but the sugar on the cookie overpowered the ube. Fran was the worst and neither of us couldn t say it s ube fran, the flavor of the sponge cake was non existent.

You can buy Trader Joe s ube ice cream and pancake mix and still can taste great ube flavors. Each item from Ubae is not cheap at all, so why waste money? Our impression is that Uabe is insta-pretty place/tourists trap. When I have ube cravings next time, I ll turn to Magnolia s ube ice cream or get Tiger Ube from Nio for much better experience.