Fro Yo

Worst bubble tea ever. We had the Apple and Grape green bubble which went into the bin after just one sip. It’s just what we imagine what paint would taste like.

Been here quite often and tried both their frozen yoghurt and bubble tea! Both are so amazing, I literally have to stand there making a decision if I’m having bubble tea or fro yo! Definitely try this place if you haven’t already! The only thing is that I wish they would cover up the toppings… It would be a lot more hygienic and comforting knowing no flies were sitting on top. None the less, still Iove this place!

Fro Yo is big in the USA and it has finally made it to the sunny shores of Perth. Fro Yo is a self serve frozen yoghurt bar. Think Sizzler dessert bar style. This is guilt free desserts. They have around 20 different flavours of frozen yoghurt — which are all 98% fat free, funnily enough they don’t mention the sugar levels. They do tell you that the yoghurt contains the cultures that are good for your gut.
You choose your yoghurt and then you get to choose your toppings. The toppings range from fruit, chocolate dots and candy. The cost is based on the weight, so it was surprisingly cheap and quite tasty too.

FRO-​YO
Shop 39 Sorrento Quay Boardwalk Hillarys
Phone: 92 438 108
Open hours 11am-​9pm
So you’re walking around Hillarys, on the Sorrento quay boardwalk and you’re stomach starts to rumble, or as I heard the little girl walking next to me with her mum say «my stomach has the hiccups»… you realise you either have a demon screaming from inside your body or you are hungry. What’s more disconcerting than that last sentence is that all there is eat at Hillary’s is oily fatty crap. Kebabs, chips, burgers– grease on grease in an oily transparent cup, most of the time I don’t have a problem with that but when it’s hot you want something refreshing. I would usually go an ice-​cream but I happened to stumble upon something better, yeah the indignant fat kid in all of us is asking ‘what could be better than ice-​cream?’, The answer, Fro-​yo, it is a Frozen yoghurt and bubble tea joint where you make your own sweet refreshments exactly how you like. You have 16 frozen yoghurt flavours to choose from including lemon cheese cake, butterscotch, raspberry and mango and all are 98% fat free. You pour whatever combination or concoction you choose into a happy green cup add toppings which range from gummy-​worms and sprinkles to chunks of healthy fruit, put it on the scales, pay and you are on your merry healthier option way and what’s more it’s delicious!

Fro-​yo is a stone cold ice-​creamery after a detox (and achieving enlightenment.)
If you, like me, grew up with simple pleasures like.. . the sizzler dessert bar (or pizza hut when it really was a hut and the dessert bar sported tiny nostril sized marshmellows) then fro-​yo will evoke nostalgic love in you.
The colours, the flavours, the concept– everything about this store is brilliant. Situated on the boardwalk, the white walls covered in green swirls take your eyes on a journey over the display of toppings (in all of their fruity, nutty and slightly refined goodness) over to the atms — an interesting integration, but why not paint the town with this?
This is so much more than just frozen yoghurt– it comes with an instructions guide (4 easy steps to self serve with diagrams!) and accompanying «feel good» facts– these guys have thought of everything.. . so naturally, they’ve doubled up with the bubble tea craze taking the world by storm and have a black, green and oolong selection with all the flavours of the edible rainbow!!!
Fro– Yo! Fro– Yo! Fro, Fro, Fro– YO! YO! YO!

When a good friend of mine told me about this place, I was excited. It was enough to get me out of the house when I had the flu!
Its a really cool setup, basically it is self serve, which I think is brilliant. You start by picking your flavour of frozen yoghurt, which is another benefit to this wonderful place. It is frozen yoghurt, which to be honest i’d never tried before. It sounded like something healthy and I really didn’t see the point if you can just have ice-​cream. I knew it was slightly healthier and not as fatty which can never be a bad thing.
Sorry about the tangent, you start by picking your flavour and then just like a proper soft serve machine, pour the desired amount into the bowl. I picked coffee and chocolate (you are in control, so you can mix flavours). There is then a selection of different chocolates and sweets, even dried fruits. I am a massive fan of dried bananas, so granted I put the biggest scope on top.
The cost is based on the weight of the bowl, I thought I had a lot and it was only $ 2.50! It was absolutely delicious and I really did feel better after. For a bit anyway.

I never especially understood the appeal of frozen yogurt. If you’re going to eat frozen dairy products, eat ice cream. Am I right? And what about bubble tea. I never especially understood the appeal of that, either. Balls of flavoured tapioca in cold tea? Firstly, that’s a thing? And secondly, people like it?
Obviously, I understand the health angle – to the yogurt if not to the bubble tea – and it was that angle more than anything else that inspired me to give the stuff a try. That was in New York City, where the stuff was not only ninety-​nine per cent fat free, but kosher as well, and I was surprised that it was actually pretty good. Sure I was putting chocolate sprinkles all over it in order to hide the yogurt flavour, but still…
Fro Yo offers a similar experience and it is one that I have been happy to have again. I have been less happy to observe the poor girl whose job it is to push frozen yogurt on uninterested passersby, who tries her darnedest but doesn’t get anywhere, even with me because I already know that I’m going to be eating frozen yogurt and don’t need to eat the frozen yogurt that she’s trying to get me to eat. There’s something in her voice that suggests a hint of desperation. It appears most other people don’t especially understand the appeal of frozen yogurt, either. They’d be surprised.