Yogurtland

Closed, wow bummer

Taroooooooooooooooo, Tarooooooooooooooo where are you Taro?
Ok, that is all that I really like at Yogurtland, I totally think this place is overrated and seriously expensive if your sig other or child is a piler. I have walked out of there with a 9 dollar bill for 2 and I just don’t understand the hype.
But the hype is there since I see people filling it up to the brim everytime I am either passing by or handing over my dough. It might possibly be the word «fro-​yo» that bothers me too. I have no idea.
So basically, I like the taro with almond and walnut topping.
I guess when my daughter is smiling at me with a bowl full of sweet candy goodies, that is my payback, I guess that is worth 9 bucks.
⁰⁶¹⁄₃₆₅ fro-​ughtreats Unilocal challenge!

#58/​365
I’ve tried many froyo places and i’ll have to say that yogurtland has my favorite tasting yogurt so far. They flavors are just right, not too tart and not too sweet and almost all the times I go the consistency is soft and smooth, not too «liquid-​y» and not too stiff to the point where it comes out VERY slowly. They always come up with new flavors every so often too so thats always. For the past 2 summers they even have special themes. This past one was sanrio where they have sanrio cups and spoons and last summer it was tokidoki. Its also nice that they give sample cups. Overall, my fav place to get my froyo fix.

They have so much selections of Yogurt, and alos toppings. They have diffrent size cups, and very cool spoons.
You have to try the Green Tea Flavor, it’s something new and fresh, the Cheese Cake flavor is awesome as well. The price is very cheap, considering all these yougurt places opening up, and its very clean, and lots of Chairs to sit down.
Overall Yougurtland is a A+!!

My friends and I landed up this Yogurtland after having lunch at Spicy Ahi & BBQ.
…when we entered, there was NO ONE in the store. That includes the workers! They were all hiding in the back. Someone finally came out and asked if we wanted sample cups. We got what we wanted and sat down to eat… and POOF workers were GONE!
??? Seriously? That’s just odd that the workers disappear.
Unilocal 365 Challenge #25/​365

Frozen yogurt is the latest and greatest thing ever. I like Yogurtland but they are none near my house so I have to venture out to this location if I want Yogurtland. If not I go to Menchies. They also have (free) water with strawberries floating in the container. Refreshing.
I’m no yogurt expert so I don’t know the difference between all the frozen yogurt places. it tastes the same to me! Well I do only get Plain Tart with strawberry and granola toppings. So plain jane I swear. But it works for me! I’ll do a tester on the new flavors.
I love how Yogurtland does collabos with Tokidoki and Hello Kitty! Kawaii! I am heading down to Yogurtland today to get my Hello Kitty fix! Get yours too because its here for a short time!

YOGURTLAND (is greater than) MENCHIES
Sorry, would’ve used the mathematical «greater than» symbol but Unilocal wouldn’t allow it.
Seriously though, I love Yogurtland. The price per ounce has gone up since my first visit to the one on University ave (it used to be $.39 an ounce) but it’s alright. Prices have gone up everywhere.
Some of my favorite flavors include: NY Cheesecake/​Strawberry swirl, vanilla, lychee tart, blueberry tart, orange dream (when available), irish mint crème, kona coffee, green tea… Well you get it. Pretty much every flavor they have.
They have awesome toppings! I always get the fruity pebbles, mochi balls, cap’n crunch, cinnamon toast crunch, and condensed milk. Yummmm.
Parking is such a hassle in this shopping center though! If you’re lucky you’ll score one right in front.

42 cents an ounce! Create your own magical bowl of dessert!
This past time, I had the green tea, new york cheesecake, and strawberry cheesecake (with chocolate chip cookie dough and oreo crumbs). All flavors are great if you are a dessert lover.
However being that I’m a «beer» drinker, I tend not to enjoy the sweeter desserts. A lot of the flavors are very sweet to me. I am a dark chocolate lover. So this would be the only bad thing. If you’re not a lover of sweets, this place is not for you. The good thing is that you get to choose what you want. The flavors change quite often so its great to always come here and get something new

Like the one near University Ave, I’ve been here so many times I can’t keep count anymore. This one is a little easier to park since it’s in a shopping center, but just as busy as the town one.
I believe Yogurtland is the original help yourself Yougurt Soft Serve buffet type serving on the island. When it first came out, the people on the island went crazy! Few years and many copy cat stores later, Yogurtland is still my favorite as compared to Menchies and all others. They have a nice variety, introduces new flavors on a monthly basis, have a good variety of toppings, and I always leave with a smile. The price is on a little high side at $ 0.45ish per ounce. At that price point, I’m glad I don’t live too close to here else I would have financial issues too!
Anyways, try this place out if you haven’t already. Becareful thoug, this place is super addicting and a drain on your wallet.

At Yogurtland, it’s all about you. How can you not like that?
Don’t know which their many flavors of soft-​serve frozen yogurt you like. That’s fine, you can sample some or all of them. Once you decide, you serve yourself as much or as little of as many or as few flavors as you want. Then, you can add as much or as little of as many or as few topping as you want.
Heck, since it’s all about you; you can even put the topping in first and then put the soft-​serve frozen yogurt on top if you like, you freak! ;-)
You pay by the ounce. So you truly get what you pay for.
One more little tidbit about Yogurtland that seals the deal on their 5^th star: 10% discount for service men and women! How can you not like that, too?

After eating dinner at Ichiben, my mom, brother, and I trotted on over to Yogurtland to have dessert.
We ended up getting a smaller cup to share. We got taro, honeycomb tart, and red velvet flavors and topped in with the popping bobas (are those what they’re called?). My mom commented on how reasonable the price was.
Will definitely be back to try some other flavors. I need to go back to Menchies I can compare.

Plus 1 star for the 2 new flavors I tried here today: Peanut butter and Devil’s food cake batter. Between these 2, peanut butter is the winner!

I have to admit, this is pretty good froyo. Nicole K. is right that they have pretty much lost their hype, but I think that is why I like it now.
I’m not the type of person that will go out of his way to get froyo. it’s just not a destination for me. But on the Monday I went, it sounded particularly good. I left Pearlridge (disappointed as always because I can’t even find my own nose here) to go home and I remembered this place was on my normal route to get to the freeway. Detour to Yogurtland!
I had a smörgåsbord of yogurt swirling in my cup. Vanilla, Mint, and Peanut Butter. I added hella boba. All the flavors actually because I was excited they had LI HING MUI flava. Yes, oh yes, I did. Hell yeah they don’t sound good mixed but STFU! The nerves that connect my mouth and brain have some spastic disease that tell my hands to pull anykine levers.
But the taste of the yogurt here is pretty spon-​on. I like try more flavors when they get more. Definitely a variety already but not the kines I like.

This place is so damn popular so getting seats can sometimes be a first come first serve situation. I definately love the froyo idea, its a great way for any business to sell yogurt; plus you choose what you want and how you want it. Various selections of flavors to choose from. From strawberry cheesecake to chocolate and even taro. Toppings are really awesome. You can go the healthy fruit direction like me or you can go the unhealthy candy and goodies direction like me… wait…oops. I like fruits and candy in my yogurt lol! But yah, you get the point. Oh and don’t forget to add condensed milk… yummmmmy!
But I have to give this place just a few stars. Its disgusting coming to a place where you can pour your own yogurt, but your also touching possible germs. Just the other night I saw a teen wipe/​scratch his nose, pull the dispenser, and pour himself some yogurt! True story. Maybe possibly have people use hand sanitizer before touching the handles?
Also am not really feeling the customer service. And believe me. It doesn’t look or even seem very hard working at a place like yogurt land. All the cashiers are doing is weighing then pricing your yogurt! The least some of these workers can do is smile, greet you as you come in the door, maybe try do something about the sometimes runny yogurt that comes falling into our bowls and replenish with some delicious thick icecream textured yogurt. You know?

The family headed out for dinner since the hubby and keiki were having cabin fever thanks to all the rain we have been experiencing.
So after a dinner at Shiro’s, I was jonesing for something sweet and the hubby suggested Yogurtland as a friend of ours, Ahmed work there.
I didn’t know that and was pleasantly surprised to find that he was working tonight.
The facility was impressive, very clean and a nice selection of yogurt with descriptions – like that ALOT!
I elected to try taro, coconut and plain tart topped with red velvet bites, peanut m & m’s and walnuts; the hubby ordered the same with Mochi balls; and the rugrat had vanilla, cheesecake and chocolate with gummies.
The yogurt was delicious and definitely hit the spot! Can’t wait to go back again!

Another frozen yogurt shop stuffed into the corner of, yet, another strip mall. For me, one good thing about frozen yogurt? There’s a store for every different taste, craving, color or whatever it is that you might be in the mood for.
Today, I’m feeling kinda «green.» No, not the kind like, when you’re about to puke, but the color of Yogurtland’s spoons and décor. Although this color has nothing to do with saving the earth or recycling, it does add something pleasant to the place. I notice how the employees add to this theme by being cheerful and greeting customers as they walk in.
The usual along with a few novelties like Green Tea, Coffee and Pistachio, are set into the lime green wall of flavors. «Fresh Strawberry» and «NY Cheesecake» looks interesting, so I swirl them into my cup. Wouldn’t it be great if the dispensing machines had a display on them, like the ones on gas pumps? Have it automatically shut off, if you over do it? An «emergency» button, maybe? Hey, I have a right to know how much I’m about to spend, right?
The «Fresh Strawberry» and «NY Cheesecake» were good, but more in a «soft-​serve» ice cream kinda way. No yogurty tartness at all, a little disappointing. Afterall, this is «Yogurt“land, isn’t it? A little too sweet for my taste in yogurt, just as mildly annoying as going to Dairy Queen and getting ice cream that tastes like yogurt.
I just remembered where I’ve heard this before, and thank you Yogurtland, for reminding me. «You’re sweet but… You’re just not my type.»

After trying different yogurt places, Yogurtland sort of grossed us out because water was dripping out of the yogurt, and when dispensing, it sometimes plopped out like pieces of soft doodoo. I think the temperature isn’t cold enough, that’s why water and the yogurt drips from the funnel, and doesn’t dispense well into the cup. It grossed us out to wonder if water is dripping from the spout into our bowl, is it also contaminated with bacteria on the outside, so one of us opted out on even buying.
Though, I liked the pumpkin and the chocolate tasted the same as the other froyo places I’ve eaten at. Though, there’s a plastic aftertaste. It’s 42 cents an ounce.
They have an arrangement of toppings, including the marshmellow and the liquid pops, but only one type of mochi bites.
The staff isn’t as friendly as the other froyo stores though. So, considering the dripping froyo and service and no frequent discount card, it gets a 3.
Rating the froyos I’ve been to (listing #1 first) in order, for their overall service, price, froyo taste and flavors, and various toppings:
Cherry on top — Pearl City — 39 cents/​oz
Menchies — Kapolei — 43 cents/​oz
Yogurt Mama — Kailua — 42 cents/​oz
Tropical Rush — Market City (heard they’re closed) — 42 cents/​oz
Orange Tree — Waipahu — 42 cents/​oz
Yogurtland — Aiea — 42 cents/​oz

*Disclaimer, the following contains references to a viral internet video that once seen, cannot be unseen. So if you wish for your froyo dreams and aspirations to stay intact, I suggest you search for a review with rainbows and puppy dogs. You have been warned.
I have never been a devout follower of froyo for one simple reason, ice cream’s better. Adding to my indifference toward the half frozen brightly colored albeit healthier ice cream wannabe, numerous viewings of the infamous Two Girls, One Cup scene haunt my consciousness. Ever think I tried the double chocolate flavor? That’s a negative, Nancy.
Unfortunately for me, froyo places have invaded Hawaii’s strip malls at an alarming rate. «It’s a trap!» Admiral Ackbar is credited with saying in Return of the Jedi, and indeed it is. You walk into their brightly lit colorful swanky place that looked like they hired the Carebears as interior decorators and approach the wall of shame. Hey look at all the flavor, poopsie whoopsie chocolate (there goes that 2girls1cup flashback again), strawberry (a staple to any frozen dessert), taro (obligatory «ethnic» offering, like taro pies at McDonalds– which are delicious btw), pumpkin pie…(Thanksgiving isn’t here yet, how do they already have leftovers that need to be eaten??? puzzling), blood orange (YES! finally something that sounds manly.)
I «dispense» some pumpkin pie flavored stuff into my bowl… (AHHH FLASHBACKS AGAIN) and throw some toppings on it. And voila, dessert. So why 4 stars you ask? It isn’t 5 stars because I was fuming mad. Mad? Why? BECAUSE I LIKED IT. UGGGGGH.
Dear Dave’s Ice Cream,
I am writing you to regretfully inform you that I am cheating on you. With… froyo. I know you may never want to talk to me ever again. But your cookies and cream have always brought all the boys to the yard.
xoxo,
grant

Went here twice during my holiday. Place was not that crowded. They had many different flavors. The chocolate and taro flavor were my favorite. I found the yogurt to be too sweet though. Each time there, I saw people pounding their cups on the counter. Don’t they know that it will cause more mass, thus make it more heavy? The toppings were like other yogurt shops. Be wary of the banana’s though. Those inch size pieces must weigh an oz each, thus sky rocketing my cup to over $ 5.

Do you like taro flavor? Then you’re gonna heart Yogurtland! It’s tasty and refreshing with the option of sprinkling as many toppings as you like. The inside is clean and the floor is not sticky like the University location. At $ 0.39 an ounce, you can quickly go overboard. Be sure to sample everything by asking for the little paper cups. This place is consistent with all the other Yogurtland locations. Go and get your froyo fix on!