Okay, buckaroos, it’s time to play Guess That Flavor with these cones of soft-serve goodness I spotted recently in Asakusa! Our first contestants are the lovely blue ice cream on the left, and the tasty-looking coffee-colored one on the right. (Wily contestants will recognize that’s a hint it definitely doesn’t taste like a cup o’ Joe!)
Next up, that delightfully vanilla-ish-looking one in the middle (a dead giveaway, of course, that it’s NOT vanilla. heh.)
And finally, the bonus round! Extra you’re-turning-Japanese points for naming the specific seasonal and regional flavor atrributes!
So, how did you do?
Answers: 1: Purple Sweet Potato and Buckwheat Noodle; 2: Bean Powder (to be fair, this is not just some random bean powder made from yucky lima beans or something, but is actually roasted soybean powder and it’s quite tasty and I myself sometimes order this kind of ice cream DON’T JUDGE); 3: Fully Ripened Melon, Chinese-Style Almond Jelly, and Chocolate Banana
If you’d like to try some of these amazing flavors the next time you’re in Tokyo, I found them at a soft-serve place on a street parallelling Nakamise-dori, the shopping street in front of Senso-ji temple, in Asakusa, but there are a few ice cream stores in the neighborhood, so stroll around and keep your eyes open!
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You can keep the bean one–I’ll stick with sakura. And yeah, I get mistaken for Japanese all the time.
I already know you can out-Japanese me any day of the week, blindfolded! （＾Ｏ＾☆♪
Bean powder? Surely this is run of the mill plain average soy milk? Or is this rootless traveler missing something? (^-^;)