Japan Images: 100 Ice-Cream Flavours
Monday, January 11th, 2010
On a recent trip to Tokyo we headed down to Yokohama’s Sea Paradise, which was about an hour’s train ride with a few changes in between.
Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise is built on a man-made island in Yokohama Bay. It houses over 500 different varieties of fish with more than 100,000 sea creatures in all and is one of the largest Aquariums in Japan.
The other half of the island is dedicated to a hotel, marina and PleasureLand, and no, it’s not what you think. ^_^
Towards the end of a long day of piscatorial viewing, we headed over to the ice-cream shop and found 100 flavours from which to choose including some crazy Japan classics like Black Sesame, Wasabi and Pumpkin.
After minutes of careful deliberation (Eeny, meeny, miny, moe) I went for #37 (Japanese Plum), which turned out to be pretty yummy!
I love Japan for displaying the food you can buy. It's genius!
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LikePinaYade I'm not sure why more countries don't do it. It helps so much to see what you are buying and saves having to ask a bunch of questions to the store
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LikeI wish I knew about that place last month when I was there! I heart so much the purple "beni imo" sweet potato ice cream. The black sesame was also good!
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Like^_^ Bummer - ah well maybe next time - good excuse to go back. So you went to Sea Paradise last month or Japan in general?
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LikeI'm doing a photo thing on the Cup Ice Museum - the link goes to it.
In terms of softserve I tried the wasabi, which I've known before can taste fine in small doses and I've tried the sea salt, and what I guess was supposed to be Ramune, they were sold out of the sweet potato. Wasabi generally tastes fine in small doses, though it's not a favorite of mine like sesame soft serve. Upscale Momofuku in NYC goes for some wild flavors, just had salt and pepper today, tastes just like it for better or worse.
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LikeWow, that is so epic! I could never handle trying wasabi flavor O.o
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LikeNow I'm curious to know what the "Little Darling" or #57 is meant to be...
BTW, thank you for showing us a pic of the ice creams. They look awesome! Would love to see what else they had! :D
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Like^_^ Yes not too sure what that mean either - but looks tasty!
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Likehaha....play-doh. i want ice cream now. >.>
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Like35 taste like chocolate coffe ice cream to me. Green tea ice cream is great, my personal favorite is Red Bean. Ha ha. Im curious about the dark purple one, # 57. Looks like tastey play-doh.
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LikeFor some reason i have an amazing urge to try #35
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LikeI tried Green Tea ice-cream in Osaka once and it has to be the worst ice-cream flavour ever although I reckon that #35 would give it a good run xD
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