Kokono ice5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the more adventurous flavors, seaweed soft serve can be made from kombu, nori, or wakame and generally asserts its oceanic origins with briny notes that add a hint of umami to the sweetness. Additionally, soba soft serve can also refer to buckwheat tea flavored ice cream with its unique cereal-like taste. Buckwheat (Soba)Ĭreated by a family-owned soba shop in Kanazawa, soba soft serve makes for a uniquely savory, nutty, sweet flavor that people travel just to taste. You may also find it under the name azuki soft serve, as azuki are the red beans from which anko is made. In recent years black sesame has been increasing in popularity both as a flavor for soft serve and in various sweets, recognizable by its gray-black color.Įnjoyed as a part of traditional desserts for hundreds of years, anko, or sweetened red bean paste, is another subtly sweet, almost nutty flavor that perfectly exemplifies the Japanese approach to sweets. Goma, or sesame, is a popular soft serve flavor throughout Japan as its earthy nuttiness tends to suit the Japanese palette, which is less inclined towards overly sweet desserts. It has a subtle sweetness that compliments the rich creaminess of the soft serve, not to mention its incredible purple color. Purple Sweet Potato (Beni-Imo)īeni-imo, or purple sweet potato, is a common flavor in many Japanese sweets and snacks, even boasting its own KitKat. While soy sauce may first appear to be an odd and maybe stomach-churning choice for a soft serve flavor, the deep salty, umami rich ingredient tends to add a salted caramel-like flavor when mixed with the sweet ice cream. Here are 11 of those unique flavors you might want to give a try: Soy Sauce (Shoyu) Some soft serve shops have extensive menus with flavors that range from the enticing to the interesting to the downright bizarre. The flavors go well beyond vanilla, chocolate, and matcha, however. Many shops specializing in soft serve, otherwise known as soft cream, will proudly advertise that they source their milk from cows in Hokkaidō, Japan's nethermost main island, and in fact, one very popular flavor is simply Hokkaidō milk cream. Walk the streets of any major city (or countryside town for that matter) and you’re bound to find the telltale swirl beckoning you towards a refreshing treat. ![]()
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