Kulu Desserts — Restaurant in New York

Kulu Desserts is a great place to grab a pan-Asian snack. Pan-Asian? They have a variety of desserts and snacks with origins mainly in the South East Asia part of the world. Think China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.

This location, not even listed on their website as of this review, has a subset of their Flushing location's menu. Most of the items are there, but I know the item my wife wanted after browsing the online menu (some variety of waffle) wasn't available.

I got the mango/pomelo/grass jelly sago pudding and it was fantastic! I asked to make sure that their sago wasn't made with coconut milk (since there was a food allergy in my party and in some areas of Asia that method of preparation is a possibility) and was assured that it wasn't. After we sat down with our desserts another employee came out and made sure we were okay, since the sago does have milk. I assured them that we were fine with milk, just not the coconut variety. So great service even if there was a small language barrier leading to that confusion.

Expect to pay around $10 if I remember right....

The used 2003 Hyundai Elantra of desserts - mediocre at best.

We ordered an "Ujikintoki Kai Waffle", a matcha bubble waffle with matcha icecream and other assortments of dessert bowl accessories. Figured we couldn't go wrong with matcha and bubble waffle, because how can a place that markets their bubble waffles actually screw it up? Wrong.

Perhaps it was their batter? Granted the waffle skin was crunchy, the innards were chewy like stale bread. Having the lower portion of the waffle soak in the (rapidly) melted iceream certainly didn't help. The matcha flavor wasn't present in the waffle and the iceream presented very small hints of the flavor.

No comments on their drinks as I only ordered...

I've been here multiple times and their Asian deserts never disappoint. They have a decent selection of noodles and delicious homemade dumplings, but their variety of deserts keep me coming back.

I usually come here for their bubble waffle ice cream combinations because the bubble waffles are freshly made. Love love love their triple sesame bubble waffle, it's sesame bubble with black sesame ice cream, Dragon fruit, condense milk, and popcorn. I had the taro shake and it was freshly made, excellent silky smooth flavor, I was surprised that it was made with real taro because normally it's made with powder. I had the durian shake, it was good.

I'll definitely be coming back here...