Ube in Perth

Purple yam, sweetened and used as a paste or syrup in lattes, matcha and cold foams: sweet and nutty, a little like vanilla, and bright purple. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 19 Perth cafes across 21 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 10 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu.

It is on 10 Perth cafe menus right now, including Pig & Fig Cafe in Attadale, Box of Goodness in Osborne Park, At Shenton in Shenton Park and Nabil's Acai Station in Mount Lawley. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

The average is $8.51, from 6 Perth cafe menus as of 14 Nov 2026. Most charge between $6.73 and $9.80; the lowest we have seen is $5.50 and the highest $10.

It is on a bigger share of Canberra cafes: 3.6% against Perth's 1.7%, over the last 90 days.

Perth cafes also sell ube as "Ube Iced Latte", "Ube Matcha", "Ube Latte", "Iced Ube Matcha", "Iced Ube Latte", "Ube Coffee", "Ube Frappe" and "Ube Mocha", plus 2 other names. The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafe menus and Google reviews.

Yes. The Froth rates ube as Rising as of 13 Nov 2026: searches in Perth are up 90% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025), though too few of the same cafes have it to read a change (2, against 2 in the 90 days before). In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 1.7% of the Perth cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,039 cafes we have followed through both periods, 2 of the same cafes had it, against 2 in the 90 days before. Perth searches for it were up 90% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 210 searches for ube in Perth in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 30 searches (Feb 2025) to 210 (Oct 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Perth.

The earliest Perth customer review about ube that The Froth has is from 22 Feb 2026. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.

A typical ube latte, drawn from Perth cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with ube cold foam (milk whipped with a little ube; some cafes add an espresso shot instead), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured), cold milk (about 200 ml, poured over so it turns lilac where they meet) and ube base (purple yam jam loosened with condensed milk, 2 to 3 spoonfuls). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for ube from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with new reviews or menus (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Perth with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.