The latest seasonal offering from Häagen-Dazs Japan is this visually stunning green tea and red bean number.
It is smothered with kuromitsu, a Japanese sugar syrup made from unrefined black sugar grown in Okinawa, and has a layer of sweet red bean paste sandwiched between green tea ice cream and good old vanilla ice cream at the very bottom. Beautiful!
While I don’t love kuromitsu (I much prefer kinako as a topping for dango), it was a lovely dessert, and not in the least bit disappointing. The harmony of the flavours was spot on – green tea and red beans is a ubiquitous pairing here in Japan, and may well be the cookies and cream of the East.
Well done Häagen-Dazs!
I hope you’re drooling by the end of this!
Chuuu xoxo
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Drooling and wishing I was in Japan!😋
Autumn is a really good time for new snack flavours! There are so many new things on the shelves. It’s like, every time I go into a convenience store, there’s something new 🙂
Like Christmas at the convenience store every day!😉
mmmmm!
That is indeed mouthwatering! ❤
OF COURSE there is a layer of red bean paste in between ice cream… Japan ❤
I first I was like, “What is that?” Then I was like, “Oh, duh!” 🙂
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