Tokyo Weird Ice Cream Map
Tokyo fulfills that common premise of capital with its own personality that does not represent the idiosyncrasy of an entire country. In their traditional culture, there is little of the din of neon and the taste for the bizarre that can be found among the great avenues of Shinjuku or Roppongi Hiils and how well they represent their ice creams. It is an almost universal dessert, but under the spotlight of Tokyo everything can be extraordinary.
Fukushimaya is the Japanese translation of organic products fashion . Taking into account the purity of much of the country's gastronomy and unlike Europe, few of the products sold in this establishment are forced. Among the refrigerated area is the black sesame . These seeds that we believe are used to make bonito in pieces of bread and some other dishes they are truly one of the healthiest nuts . Eating this ice cream is not a simple dirty thing; In fact, it is recommended and many restaurants offer it on their dessert menu. The grayish to silvery color makes it look like frozen charcoal and the salty taste discolors at first. They are sold, for example, in the flavor catalog of the Kubota brand, which also offers Kuromitsu-kinako. In Christian it means soy sauce with honey and it is an instant classic that threatens to end the reign of ham with melon in the sweet-savory gastronomic field.
black sesame ice cream
antenna shops They are stores that promote regional products from the different prefectures of Japan. The country is divided into 47 territorial jurisdictions with their own customs and even official mascots. In Ginza there is a building that dedicates its floors closest to ground level to this type of establishment, closer to folklore than to the luxury of the ambitious architecture and haute couture shops for which the area is known. One of them is Shizuoka Green-tea Plaza , which focuses on the region where the famous Mount Fuji is located.
It is also the area where the best tea is grown in the entire nation. Green tea or black tea ice cream is easy to find even outside the country, but not like the one here. The taste is handmade and exquisite, although the preferences between one and the other are based on taste. The black enters better and the green, being more bitter, has two versions with different degrees of intensity. It only has one table to sit on, but since the place is somewhat hidden, it's no problem to stay with it. It is a perfect place to learn about the area and all the secrets behind the entire process of making Japanese tea. Some of its friendly saleswomen, perhaps a tour guide more than a waitress, threaten to talk for hours on the subject with a perfect level of English.
This is how green tea ice cream is made
tokyo midtown curl the curl in the matter of vertical cities. It is a complex of skyscrapers that forms a city within the city itself. In addition to offices, hotels and apartments, the wide selection of shops, each one more well cared for, creates what is probably one of the most beautiful malls in the world . In the basement of one of the three buildings, called a gallery, there is a supermarket that never closes.
For those who have a craving at odd hours, there you can find the purple potato ice cream . This version of the famous root vegetable is very common in Asia and, again, it is very healthy. Around this food it is said that it is bad because it makes you fat, although other experts defend that it is good for people with high blood pressure and some studies even suggest that decreases the risk of cancer . Its flavor is sweet, so making ice cream with it is not so crazy. The Blue Seal brand found in this store is refreshing. Another flavor of similar origin and color is that of ube (Okinawa purple sweet potato) or Shikwasa (a green citrus fruit also known as the Taiwan mandarin) .
ube ice cream
The seven eleven they are as common in Tokyo as an ATM can be (they usually stay in them). Those stores that open until late and that from time to time are seen in the big Spanish cities save one's life in the Japanese capital if one goes on a spree in the Roppongi Hills bar area. Of all the food they sell, very little would serve to make a proper dinner, because almost everything is snacks and sweets. Among them, the classic Häagen-Dazs.
The company was founded in the Bronx in 1961 with just three flavors, as simple as coffee, vanilla and chocolate. I'm sure its original owners never thought they'd get this far. We are not referring so much to the fact that their tubs are sold in almost 60 countries as to the fact that in one of them, Japan, they are given for things like baby carrot, cherry blossom or pumpkin ice cream ; all of them available according to season. The brand is as popular as it is in the rest of the world, so it is easy to find many of them in any other supermarket.
pumpkin ice cream
In theory, you can find even more Martian ice creams than those mentioned here (octopus, black squid ink, ramen, horse meat...), but the truth is that the ordinary citizen of Tokyo does not know them. The theme park Namjatown Company's Sunshine City in the Ikebukuro neighborhood used to have an ice cream palace with over a hundred flavors. Now that the place has changed, the new establishment has barely half, but among them you can find some of these extreme options, always depending on the season.
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