- This looks amazing.
- What the hell is that?
- This is giving fancy.
(cheering)
- Oh wait, I thought it was ice cream! (laughing)
(upbeat music)
- So today we're gonna try some ube flavored foods.
- And we're gonna be ranking them
according to BuzzFeed's historically,
scientifically proven ranking system.
So there's super God, (dings)
God, (dings)
okay, (dings)
meh, (dings)
and nah. (dings)
(upbeat music)
Ube is a purple yam that people often confuse it with taro.
- It's like a vanilla nutty flavor.
- Today what I'm looking for in the foods
is to see whether it tastes like ube,
whether it tastes good,
and whether the foods match ube.
- I'm actually the last snack.
(laughing)
- The only snack.
- [Erica] I love these! - Oh my gosh.
- These are my favorites.
- Ooh.
- Stop!
- So these are the Junior Stik-os
in the ube flavor, obviously.
- These were like one peso.
So like they would sell this at like (speaks in Tagalog),
like little like stores.
- Cheers.
- Maybe the smell is more like ube.
- The wafer is nice and like it's not too sweet.
So it balances out with the sweet ube in the middle,
and it's so good.
- I'll give it an okay. (dings)
- Yeah, I'm with you. - Honestly.
- I'll give this okay. - Yeah.
- I'd give it a God. (dings)
- I'm gonna give it super God. (dings)
- [Dominic] Oh, yeah.
- The Goldilocks.
- Goldilocks is iconic.
- Oh, it is.
- Goldilocks is a restaurant in the Philippines
that sells all sorts of Filipino food.
And they're pretty much famous
for all of their Filipino classic dishes.
And they're very sweet, amazing treats.
- I've been there. It's really cute.
It's like really colorful,
and there's all these desserts just lined up.
- I find my mouth is just dry.
(laughing)
- But like this is the experience with polvoron.
- It's good though.
- Yeah, like you have that like sensation
of like it being dry and like sandy.
- Mm.
- Polvoron is very messy. - It's like sand.
- You just take a bite of it and it just spills everywhere.
- Think of hardened milk powder, and then flavor it ube.
- Because it's like a little like chalky and dry,
I just give it an okay. (dings)
- It's like, he's a 10, but it's dry.
- Yeah. (laughing)
So he's an okay.
- So he's an okay. (dings)
- I would rank this as a God. (dings)
- For myself,
I'd probably rank it a meh. (dings)
(upbeat music)
(both cheering)
- Okay. So what we have here is otap
- Oh, wait. I thought it was ice cream.
(laughing)
- Otap.
- Oh, tap.
- This is what you were talking about, yeah?
- Otap.
- It's a happy medium between sugar and a biscuit.
- This looks like a purple piece of spam.
- Oh my God. That's so true.
- Mm.
- Crispy.
- It's good.
It's not as strong of an ube flavor.
- Is it good as a ube snack?
Probably not.
- It's gonna be a meh. (dings)
- I'd give it a meh. (dings)
- [Both] Nah. (dings)
- Yeah.
(laughing)
Nah.
- Nah nah nah, yeah.
(gasps) - Oh my God, mochi!
- Mochi! - Have you tried this before?
- I love mochi
but I've never had all your favorite mochi.
- I've never tried ube mochi.
- She looks like a kidney.
- (laughing) Like a kidney.
- Yours are a different color to mine.
- It's the same, isn't it?
- Mine's like brown.
- Look, there's different shades.
Different shades of brown.
- Well, it's really earthy.
It tastes like an actual like ube root.
- I'd give this one a nah. (dings)
- Just because it's very disappointing.
Ube wise, tastewise.
- Okay. (dings)
- I'll go okay. (dings)
(piano music)
- Hopia!
- I like that it's cold.
It's like very refreshing.
It's like cheesecake.
- Hopia is like a moon cake.
Usually it's got like a thicker pastry.
- It's got that ice cream taste to it.
- A dry cold ice cream flavor.
- Yeah, we'll go with like upper end okay.
- Yeah. (dings)
- I'd probably give it a God. (dings)
- I'd also give this a God, it's really good.
(upbeat music)
(excited squealing)
- They've got budget, because they've given,
(laughing) pints!
- They've got budget. - They got us pints.
- Oh my God.
- This one is really good.
- Mm, mm. (magical chiming)
- Wait, I'm getting FOMO.
- Dumb.
- Mm.
- Do you know what I mean?
Are we on the same street?
You know what I mean?
- We're on Manila street.
(laughing)
Here.
- Like Filipino dessert heaven.
- If you haven't tried any ube snacks
or you have a friend who hasn't tried them, give them this
and it'll get them onto it.
- A hundred percent.
- This is probably the one that's got the most ube flavor
out of everything we've tried so far.
- I'd give this a heaven. (explosive booming)
(reverent singing)
- No, I'll say super God. (dings)
- Super God. (dings)
Super God.
- I probably got God too. (dings)
- Yeah, I'll just do God too
with this one as well. (dings)
- This is good.
(upbeat music)
- Oh, Cupp Keyk.
Girl, I grew up like eating these in school.
- This smells like Cupp Keyk ube.
- There's no coconut in the middle.
I can't see any.
- Yeah, it's getting false advertisement,
but it tastes good.
- These are one of the things that like
does the job.
- I'll probably go a meh. (dings)
- Yeah, meh. (dings)
- Yeah.
- Okay. (dings)
- I'll give it a meh. (dings)
(low key music)
- (gasps) Pastillas de Ube. - Oh!
Yum!
- The closest thing I would describe it to
is like fudge.
- No, I'm not really getting the ube flavor with this one.
- It tastes more like milk.
- I feel like this one was too.
- Yeah. - Compressed?
- It looks like a pastel.
- The meh. (dings)
- Meh. (dings)
- I think I would give this
a nah. (dings)
- Nah?
I'll give it a meh. (dings)
(dainty music)
- Oh my gosh! - Oh, those are beautiful!
- This looks amazing.
- What the hell is that?
- This is giving fancy.
It's giving molecular gastronomy.
- It's like $500 at your local cafe.
(cash register ringing)
- Oh my God.
Can we just appreciate how pretty this is?
- Yeah, let's take a photo. - I won't post it.
- French toast covered with some sort of crumb
and then lemon underneath
so it kind of cuts the sweetness,
and then ube halaya
and then ube meringue
that's been toasted and icing sugar.
- Wow.
(heavenly choir singing)
- Super God. (dings)
- I would give it a super God. (dings)
- I'd give this a God. (dings)
- I'll give this an okay. (dings)
(gasps) Don't kill me.
(classy music)
- Girl.
- (squeals) Oh my God.
- Well, this is good.
(crunching)
- This is more of like a subtle ube flavor,
but it is very nice.
- When this cream sort of melts in your mouth,
That's when you begin to taste the ube.
I'd give this a God. (dings)
- I'm gonna give it a God. (dings)
Because it's stunning.
It's beautiful.
- It's God. (dings)
I'd give it a God tier.
- Yeah, I'd probably go God (dings) tier with this.
This is ube, this is God tier.
(laughing)
- Ding! (dings)
(low key music)
- It literally looks like a cartoon cake.
That's how cute it looks.
- It's stunning.
- [Both] It's beautiful.
(laughing)
- This cream is very buttery.
- This cake is definitely for the titas that are
always like, ah, I don't like something too sweet.
Just give them this.
- Yeah.
- And they'll love it, yeah.
- It's perfect.
- The sponge then comes in
and it wipes the coat away down the throat.
You know what I mean?
- Damn, that was some master chef stuff.
I just said it's good.
It's so good.
- Thank you so much to Mrs. Ube
for this amazing cake.
- Mrs. Ube coming through!
- Mrs. Ube's pulling up.
- She delivering.
- I'd rate it as super God. (dings)
- Yeah. - I'd rate it as super God.
- This is pretty super God. (dings)
- It's like, wow.
- Yeah, this is good.
- I'm gonna give it a God. (dings)
- I'd give this
a God as well. (dings)
(upbeat music)
- This is much Aussie filler thing
I've ever seen in my life.
- This is probably the most beautiful one.
- I think you've been looking forward to this all day.
- Yeah.
Like if I was to be friends
with an ube food, it'd be, it'd be her.
(laughing)
Look at her.
Oh my God.
- Look at the symmetry on this.
- It's really sweet.
- We've had like a million different ube snacks today.
We're just like full of ube.
- I'd give it a God. (dings)
I'm standing by it.
- I'm going super God. (dings)
(gasps)
I'm gonna super God with this one. (laughing)
- I would probably give it
a meh. (dings)
- Um, I would rank this a God. (dings)
(drum roll)
- [Rizcel] So we got a tie.
- Oh.
- [Rizcel] The winner is.
Ube Ice Cream by Manila Street.
(clapping) Oh yes, yes, yes.
- [Rizcel] And Ube Overload Cake by Mrs. Ube.
- [Both] Ah! (laughing)
- I feel like that does make sense
because we both loved it equally.
- Buy an ube ice cream.
- Yeah. - You won't regret it.
- Made sure to stay tuned
at Buzzfeed Oz for more Filipino content
during Filipino week.
(speaking in Tagalog)
Bye! (beeping)
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(laughing) Represent!