Ice Cream

Ice Cream Please!

I know a number of my blogs have been about food but I felt that my blog would not be complete without one last one about Japanese ice cream. Like many imported foods in Japan, the Japanese has taken ice cream and truly made it their own. You will find flavours here that you will probably not find in many other places. Here are some of the interesting ones:

• Cactus Ice Cream
• Chicken Wing Ice Cream
• Crab Ice Cream
• Eel Ice Cream Ice Cream
• Fish Ice Cream Ice Cream
• Octopus Ice Cream Ice Cream
• Shrimp Ice Cream – contains shrimps bodies in the ice cream
• Wasabi Ice Cream (Japanese horseradish)
• Ox Tongue Ice Cream
• Squid Ink Ice Cream
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  Squid Ink Ice Cream

  Garlic Ice Cream
• Horse Flesh Ice Cream – made with raw horse meat (sorry to all the horse lovers reading this!)

There are also many other flavours of ice cream including salt but thought if I listed them all, it might put you off ice cream for a while.

Don't worry, if you are visiting Japanese most of these flavours are only available in the grocery story and not for sale from the the road since vendors in the tourist areas. These road side stands however, do still sell some interesting ones. You can get sweet potato, green tea as well as apple and mango. I am adventurous at times but think this time around I will stick to vanilla!!