The popular restaurant and food truck hosts "Authentic or Not: The Filipino Food Revolution" on June 22 at the Philippine American Cultural Center with classic dishes like lumpia and ube pandesal.

Now, along with the pandesal, you’ll find Zaballero’s ube pandesal, filled with an ube jam, a recipe that incorporates homegrown ube, straight out of her mother and aunt’s gardens.

Kanto sells drinks using Korean flavoured syrups (Image: Kanto) Out of all of the bakery's products, Ms Pascual would recommend the ube pandesal.

“I’d like to blame it on the pandemic eating and the viral ube pandesal,” he quipped. Kramer recalled how he struggled to lose weight due to a bad diet even when he consistently worked out.

There’s also a matcha blueberry cream pie and an ube purin cake (a spin on Japan’s jiggly custard pudding, purin), as well as savoury options like shio pan sandwiches filled with spam and egg salad, ...

The bakery will open in a compact corner storefront in the Belmont Heights neighborhood, serving airy pandesal, ube buns, and more classic Filipino sweets, all without dairy or eggs.

The menu features pandesal bread rolls, soft and airy offerings that are a staple in the Philippines. Their ube pandesal purple bread roll uses a Filipino yam and is stuffed with cheese.

Ube is a purple yam native to Southeast Asia with a mild, sweet flavor, and coconut-like aroma that is a popular ingredient in traditional Filipino sweets.

Order an elaborate “Thanksgiving Fiesta” kit from Paolo Dungca’s all-day Filipino cafe on H Street, and you’ll get a choice of smoked lechon-style turkey or whole roasted duck with garlic rice, ube ...