Taro Favourites

Taro is the purple-rooted staple of Asian cooking — nutty, vanilla-adjacent and unmistakably lilac once cooked — and this collection gathers everything taro in one place: snacks, drinks, frozen roots and pudding mixes.

The sweet shelf leads. Royal Family's taro mochi are the soft, chewy favourites, and the taro bubble milk tea drinks bring the flavour that built a thousand bubble tea shops — creamy, gently nutty and faintly vanilla. Taro pudding powder and taro coconut milk drink sachets cover the make-at-home end, and the taro buns steam up into a sweet, lilac-centred breakfast.

The cooking side matters too. Frozen taro slices save the peeling and chopping — straight into curries, stews, or steamed and mashed with sugar and coconut for the classic desserts. Sinigang mixes with taro and batter mixes round out the savoury edge, and sago in taro flavour starts a pudding all by itself.

A note for first-timers: taro the root always needs cooking — it is not eaten raw — but taro the flavour needs nothing but a willing spoon. Frozen packs and the snack shelf keep well, so stocking up is easy. Everything is sent from our Manchester store with UK delivery by DHL, free standard delivery over £75. The mochi and the bubble tea are where most people start.