DIY Yogurt

The froyo here tastes pretty bad. It almost seems like they didn’t have anyone taste test the flavors before making them. Save your time and don’t bother coming here.

Go somewhere else!
This place is run by the same owner as the Shinbala Café next door so you can already expect that the quality would be less than impressive. This is just a copy cat of the yogurt places around here. The taste is nothing special, and it’s not all that great. On top of that, they are more expensive than Yogurtland!!! What’s up with that? 3 cents more for less quality? I don’t think so!
There’s just nothing special about this place and it is highly unlikely that I would go back because there are better choices around here.

diy yogurt is located next to the shin ba la café. taiwanese restaurant in a runnned down strip mall with a bowling alley as a main attraction. there’s no décor here. color scheme is yellow and white.
froyo availabiltiy:
–country vanilla
–chocolate
–taro, sweet, tasted like ube
–ny cheesecake
–very strawberry
–cookies & cream
–tart
–mango: faint
–red bean
–blueberry: faint
pricing: self serve, .33 cents per ounce froyo & toppings over 60 dry toppings in silos, bins, and trays. 5 fruit toppings (blueberry was scarce), some multicolored mochis, and some jellies.
froyodrips:
–slight aftertaste
–yocream banners on the window.
–register is set up taxed sale only.
–froyo faint taste, not so flavorful.
–possibility of winning free froyo is weigh matches «magic number».
–hardly any fresh fruits, some were dried.

I had just heard of this place, and there was a power outage at Yogurtland. Time to try something new.
I’m actually surprised at how poor the reviews of this place are. But, I didn’t try the taro, and didn’t get anything stale. Yuk. I had chocolate and peanut butter and mango. The peanut butter didn’t have much flavor, but then again, maybe I shouldn’t have put mango over it! They had mochi balls, fruit, and apple granola that all seemed ok.
I thought the big containers on the wall looked cool, but I wasn’t thinking about how fresh the stuff is… I think I’ll skip it if I go again!

Go for the mango and original tart. The mango flavor was a very AZN mango flavor (I can’t friggin describe the difference between AZN mango vs WHITE mango flavor, but for those who know well you just know right: P), which is what I prefer :9. Their original tart froyo had the right creaminess, but is not as tart as I prefer. Rainbow mochi, check. Mango star jellys, check.
A piece of interesting info: the owner here owns Sinbala right next door as well — really nice guy. If you get on his nice side, hoook upppps! My froyo today was free as well as stinky tofu at Sinbala. Holla.

DIY YOGURT, (Overall:2.5 stars)
All of these yogurt places sprouting all over the bay area, I have yet to find one and truly call it THE BEST. Most places are mediocre at best, and DIY is one of them. The store lacked cute interior like most other yogurt shops… not like that matters, but they had quite a variety of flavors. I sampled a few but none of them were good enough to actually fill my cup. I just had original and mango. Both were pretty tasty, but we were full from dinner at fusion korea next door.
They have this very clever game where if you buy as much yogurt as the magic number of the day, you get it for free. The sneaky part of it all is that if the magic number is like 10 OZ+ you’re forced to get a lot and chances are you won’t even win. Clever nonetheless.
Their toppings are all there. It consists of canned fruits, fresh fruits, mochi, cereal toppings, and an assortment of candies. Best of all they had cheesecake bits, BUT they were all mashed up so it was more like graham cracker/​cheesecake crumbles. The WORST part of it all was when I was finishing my yogurt there was a piece of hair attached to the cheesecake… GAG
Lastly, they recycle their cups, so you dump your waste into the trash and you set your cups on top so they can «recycle» them at some plant. I’m ALL for greening the environment. but that looked a little suspicious. 35cents/​oz.

I have yet to taste the taro, which seems to be the most popular flavor here (it’s not available everyday)…but I’ve tried some random others: tart, chocolate, cookies& cream and mango. The tart was better than I’d expected. Could be tartier, but creamy. Others were sweet, rich and creamy. Not bad, really.
There are a lot of toppings, but they aren’t exactly fresh. For example, the raisins in the trail mix were ROCK hard; we had to spit them out.
The place is small, but has two cool arcade games.
SUM: 3 stars for now… must go when taro is available. And DIY is always good — I love customizing my own cup.

As most people said, this place isn’t anything to write home about.
I have only two memories of this place: one is hilarious and the other actually relates to my Unilocal review.
The first is that there was a little high-​school Asian kid studying for his SAT Math IIC (lol who remembers this?!) at the counter, no doubt worrying about his future Stanford admittance letter. He looked up to glance at me, saw that even though I was an Asian he did not know me, and went moodily back to his studies.
The second is that they DID NOT HAVE MOCHI. HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE MOCHI?! I was so aghast that I stared at aforementioned nerdboy for a good 5 seconds. He had nothing to say (needless to say, his mind was covering integrals), so I just put strawberries on and left.
I can’t tell if it was my emotions clouding my taste buds, but I do not remember how tasty or nasty the yogurt was for the life of me.
Help your taste buds and wallet by going to Fusion Korea next door and ordering some sushi instead.

The guy that helped us was very nice, but their yogurt is really gross! The taro yogurt tastes really fake and was rather watery. Their mango yogurt was alright, but anything tastes better than that taro! The tart actually isn’t very tart at all, so that was disappointing.
The only cool thing here is that they do have so many different toppings to chose from, however most of those are dry toppings like candy and cereal. They do have mochi, canned lychee, watermelon, etc but not as many as Yogurtland or Tartini.
It’s 33 cents an ounce, which is around the same as Yogurtland, so don’t waste your money here!

Worst tasting yogurt ever. This is coming from a person that owns a few yogurt stores in Asia. I am not bashing them for no reason. I want them to read this review and honestly ask themselves if they are serving a quality product to the public. I will tell you that they are not. As an owner of a frozen yogurt chain, I can tell you who has the best yogurt:
Great yogurt = red mango
Good yogurt = tartini
Okay yogurt = yogurtland
Bad yogurt = DIY

Walking into the store you would think you were in a candy store with huge variety of candy offered!
Here you get 2 size cups– 1 small and 1 large. Yogurt is $ 0.33 per ounce, pretty reasonable compared to some others out there.
Flavors they offered include (there were some others as well, unfortunately I don’t remember what they were):
— tart– too icy for my liking– I prefer it creamier
— cookies and cream– didn’t taste
— pineapple tart– not bad
— strawberry– tasty!
— mango– my second favorite
— blueberry– eeh too artificial tasting– did not like it
— taro– my FAVORITE… out of all the yogurt shops I’ve been to in the bay and the various taro flavors I’ve tried, I really enjoyed this one
I’m not one for candy on my yogurt but if you are… you’d love the selection offered. Unfortunately the fresh fruits selection (my favorite things to put on yogurt) are pretty sparse– the only thing I saw was strawberries…
Overall since I was bowling next door it was a nice place to grab a quick snack.

OK! I L-​O-​V-​E this place, although Yogurtland and Froyo are also my favorite but it never hurt to switch things around once in a while right?
they hav 10 flavors of froyo, I love the mango, tart and taro (the best!) although some people prefered the tart flavor at Yogurtland and Froyo, I believed that we all have different taste in things, I like their tart too, it’s different, I wouldn’t be impress if they are the same. so I give it a 3.5 because I’d love to have more choices.
and their toppings are like out-​of-​this-​world! they have over 50 dry toppings! and their fruits are mostly fresh and not from cans =] so it’s definitely a 5.
the best part of all is the service, I was there last week and I feels like I was on a tour, I ask the that work there and he was explaining things to me and how it work (although I already knew… lol) he is SO darn cute!!! so I keep asking him things just to get him to talk, his name is Roth, he’s a bit shy but he’s so CUTE!!! he says he only work in the morning, so I’ll definitely go back just to see him.

Out of the few fro-​yo shops I’ve tried, DIY seems to be on the most stringent budget. The store’s set-​up is super basic but fairly clean, and the employees are nice guys.
Their plain tart is like FroYo’s at Cupertino Square, nondescript but an okay base for toppings. The mango tasted pretty strong, while the taro was the richest of all. As for the papaya, I wanted to love it, but ultimately it reminded me more of Trident gum’s «fruit flavor» than papaya.
Fruit topping choices are small. The chopped mangos were unripe, but at least they weren’t canned. Mochi balls were chewy and rice-​y.
There’s oodles of dry toppings, especially candy. The dry toppings station is similar to those stacked rows of clear bins at movie theaters. Skittles, Nerds, and gummy critters on yogurt isn’t my thing, though.
DIY is in a decent location – heavily trafficked intersection, close to Homestead High, and in a compact but interesting strip mall. A good day at this mall would be, in this or reverse order: bowling, fro-​yo break, haircut while it digests, and vegan Indian food. With a few tweaks, this store should do fine (bring back the Asian pop songs, please!)

DiY = Dang, it’s Yummy! I got in the door and paused at the gloriousnous that is their topping bar… can you imagine the heavenly music that played in the background at that moment? Got the Taro (best so far out of 5 other FroYo places), Lychee, Mango & Honeydew. It is a little bit more like flavored soft serve ice cream, but I personally liked it crreamy and not so tart. The flavors were a bit more natural tasting… the honeydew here was better than Tartini, not so artificial. The mochi was awesome here.
Our group was playing «Weight is Right» on other customer’s froyo weight. And we witnessed someone actually win the Magic Weight so they got theirs for free.

It’s alright if you’re in the area, but if not, there are others (such as tartini or red mango or frozo’s) that are better in terms of tart yogurt quality.
But DIY does have the toppings down. Fresh fruit AND a variety of granola as well as tons of candies and chocolates.
Best part is they let you get the toppings at the same price. So I always get a cup of toppings and then the yogurt by itself. This works out better because I don’t end up with a mishmash of yogurt covered raisins and gummi bears and granola all in one bite. Yea I’m weird and like to coordinate my froyo and topping bites.
The tart is somewhat artificial tasting. That’s kinda bad when you can tell. Not as creamy and yogurty.
Taro was good. First time I ever tried Taro froyo. Good intense real flavor. Weird considering the rest are kinda artificial tasting. But according to my boyfriend, it was horrible? He probably just doesn’t like taro flavor.
Oh yea, they have ounces of the day contest. If you get the exact ounces then you get your froyo for free.

A pretty average self-​serve yogurt place with many flavors and toppings to choose from. Price is okay. Service was excellent however.
I always like plain tart and it’s called euro tart here and icier texture than I’d like. I still love Frozo’s creamy original tart the best :)

TARO IS AWESOME
it’s 32 cents/​oz i believe, and the amount of toppings they had was like O: O, however the tart yogurt wasn’t as great, but i usually don’t get tart, only taro. sooo thats the reason i gave this four stars!
but…IF YOU LOVE TART, yea i recommend another place, perhaps froyo which is 10 minutes away or yogurtland:)

With Yogurtland nearby it seems to still be holding up in competition. The appearance from the outside is nothing of spectacular. However, the inside was neat, yet small.
The flavors were pretty neat and I appreciated the «Sugar-​free» ones. The toppings here are dispensed just like candy from «Candy Factory» which made me really excited. Someone tell me what is «Cotton Candy Crunch», the toppings here are nothing like Yogurtlands which is so much better, but there are the usual strawberries, mochi balls, and chocolate chips if you like. The brownie bits seemed a bit dry for my taste though.
For 33 cents an ounce, it really isn’t all that bad. They have a lot of different flavors and toppings to make each cup really different.
Maybe instead of Yogurtland, I’ll stop by here more often– as a new favorite.

Awesome time here! Opened recently but didn’t have lots of publicity about it– heard about it through Facebook. Hurry to come before school starts… I bet all the Homestead High kiddies will come here!
Yogurt– Yogurtland is better! But the staff guy– get to the staff later– said that the rest of the flavors are still in the fridge since they just opened. I only saw chocolate (sugar free YAY FINALLY!!!), country vanilla, blueberry (sugar free), eurotart (like a tart plain), cookies and cream, taro, mango, and honeydew. The guy said there were tons more though like lychee and stuff so I’ll definately be returning.
Toppings– THE FREAKING BEST!!! They have seriously like 50 different toppings. They have them against the wall with those cereal type of dispensers. Frosted flakes, cinnamon toasts, sour patch kids, hot tamales, orange crème crunchie things, springles, YOGURT PRETZELS, yogurt raisins, YOGURT MALTBALLS, yogurt kisses, kissables, reese’s pieces, raisins, gummy bears, shredded wheat, fruit, MOCHI, red bean, TARO (!!!), snickers, mini reese’s peanut butter cups, heath bars, condensed milk, chocolate drizzle stuff, caramel drizzlies… Unbelievable!
My friend was saying we should just come here just for the candy and toppings. It’s cheaper by the ounce compared to Sweet Factory AND you can come and just get toppings! Yogurt pretzels are deeeelicious btw.
Service– great! My friend and I came a little before closing and one of the guys was super talkative and nice. Alex I think? Anyways all the staff were very nice and encouraged us to come back. They even let us stay as we finished our sour patch kids and yogurt pretzels (we made another round just for those) — they were closed. They told us we could stay however long we wanted as long as we didn’t mind them cleaning up around us!
It’s 33 cents/​oz so a few more cents than Yogurtland. But who has more toppings! Definately would come back and am hoping their actual yogurt improves to 5 star level.

Taro Taro Taro!!! This place has the best taro yogurt ice cream period!
It doesn’t even compare to taro from yogurt land, this is much more creamy. Tartini comes close… This taro is creamy, thick, and smooth. They also have taro paste next to the fruits for you to put on.
They charge 33 cents an ounce, 3 cents more than yogurt land but well worth it because the ice creams are much more flavorful and smooth here.
They have just as many fruits as yogurt land and way more choices of cereals and candies to put on (bit too much).
Vibe, décor, is typical of Asian pearl tea shop/​yogurt shop, a little too cramped. I am definitely going to stop by here every time I go bowling~
4 stars for the place it self, I am lowering my review of yogurt land to 4 star after this place.
5 star because I love taro and they have THE best taro