This beloved destination for Filipino street eats boasts a lengthy menu of favorites like pecan-smoked pork skewers, garlic rice, and chopped longanisa wraps, but don’t fill up before sampling its sweet ube ice cream. The halo-halo, a popular Filipino dessert, incorporates sweet ube and vanilla ice-cream in a decadent mess of shaved ice, flan, jackfruit, coconut jellies and sweet red beans for a truly epic dessert. For something simpler, go with the ice cream burger, in which ube and vanilla ice cream is drizzled with condensed milk and sandwiched between a freshly toasted sesame bun.

Red Ribbon Bakery was born from a home baker’s hobby in the Philippines and is now a premier destination for ube desserts across the United States. Houston is home to one of its many locations, allowing locals to order decadences like the ube overload cake, a bright purple chiffon cake layered with ube halaya; an ube coconut roll dusted with coconut flakes; or a cheese-topped ube ensaimada.

Be More Pacific’s collaboration with Austin favorite Amy’s ice-cream results in two hard-to-resist ube dessert choices. Ube ice cream, made exclusively for the restaurant by Amy’s, is the star in in the halo halo shaved ice, which is made with house-made ube halaya, coconut strips and jellies, red bean, leche flan and crispy toasted rice. Nostalgic for an ice-cream cone? Here, Amy’s varieties like ube or calamansi are swirled with ube jam for double the fun.   

Mon Cherie Macarons raises the bar among dessert boutiques with its vast array of colorful French macarons in imaginative flavors like Fruity Pebbles, maple bacon, and seasonal offerings like the Mardi Gras-themed king cake macaron. Here, the deep purple ube macaron, stuffed with a moist buttercream filling, is always available. Score a few for a snack or spring for an eye-catching macaron tower for a special occasion.

This top sushi destination in Memorial boasts a top notch dessert menu featuring items like coconut rice pudding and black sesame brownie with red bean ganache. For a sweet taste of ube, opt for the ube soufflé. The platter arrives with ube fries, a piece of ube candy, and a ramekin that reveals spoonful after spoonful of the one-of-a-kind pastry. Plan ahead — this dessert takes 30 minutes to prepare.

Located within the Dun Huang Plaza in Chinatown, Twisted Love is a destination for soft serve ice-cream cones incorporating Asian-inspired flavors, and ube is one of the most popular flavors on the menu. With its velvety texture and pretty purple color, the ube soft serve is a true treat and can be enhanced with candy garnishes and cookie crumble toppings.