Cold Drinks & Helados
Ube Horchata in Los Angeles
Look for vibrant lavender-purple coolers ladled from clear vitroleros, offering fragrant rice milk blended with velvety purple yam at Imperial Night Market in Downtown LA on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, when a vendor is serving it. Free entry.
2300 E 15th St, Downtown LA · Free entry
CATEGORY
Cold Drinks & Helados
PREPARATION
Rice milk infused with purple yam paste, cinnamon, sweetened milk, and vanilla.
MARKET
Imperial Night Market, Downtown LA
ABOUT THE DISH
About Ube Horchata
By blending traditional Mexican rice horchata with vibrant Filipino ube, local beverage makers created an eye-catching cross-cultural favorite.
The drink builds on a classic horchata base of rice milk steeped with canela and condensed milk. Pureed purple yam is whisked in.
Vibrant pastel violet colorNutty vanilla yam sweetnessCreamy spiced rice baseCrisp cold finish over ice