I think I have mentioned before that I don’t really like Haagen Dazs ice cream in Japan. It is just another mass produced ice cream that, to me, isn’t very creamy or nice in flavour. Anyway, here is one more a bit like the Manako bars I like, they call it a Crispy Sandwich.
Green Tea and Sakura Ice cream from Kyoto.
I have this marked as Sakura (cherry blossom) but I think it was actually Red Bean (azuki). It was a while back and I don't remember.
I had a Haagen Daz Crispy Sandwich ice cream that was Green Tea flavour. I don’t like Haagen Daz ice cream very much but this looked nice so I tried it out. It was OK , nothing great, just OK. I was a bit disappointed but that's how I find Haagen Daz ice cream.
These are not little ice creams but they are cookies that are green tea icecream flavour with chocolate chips.
I didn’t like them much.
Japanese Haagen Daz Ice Cream.This ice cream brand is super popular in Japan, not sure why as I think it is only 'OK' ice cream. Maybe because it's from the USA and the people from Japan seem to love all from there. They do have a good flavour range though.
In the photo is Green Tea, Vanilla, Custard Pudding, Strawberry, Rum and Raisin, Black Sesame, Apple Pie, Red Bean, Chocolate, Rich Milk, Cookies and Cream, Caramel Ice cream sandwich, Green Tea and Brown sugar ice cream sandwich, Cafe Latte ice cream sandwich, Vanilla almond.
There is also some new ones like Salty Butter biscuit ice cream (really good), cream cheese raspberry (like cheesecake) and Panna Cotta ice cream sandwich.
Six Flavour Japanese Ice Cream.
I think I have posted about one of these big beauties before. (here it is , not quite as big as this one). Well it seems that this one has an extra two flavours of soft cream. The flavours from the bottom to the tap are Melon, Strong Milk, Banana, Green Tea, Chocolate and Strawberries & Milk. Fairly impressive isn't it - well it looked really good but it tasted just like any other soft serve ice cream.
Another Japanese soft cream cone. I guess nothing was really special about this Japanese ice cream apart from it looking so nice – it was just like any other soft serve ice cream. Nice ice cream flavours – Vanilla, Peach, Cherry Blossom and Green Tea.
An amazing looking ice cream in our local Japanese restaurant. All of us chose to have the special ice-cream dessert, that is literally a triple-decker ice cream dish that kind of appears to be like akin to a volcano or a multi-coloured X-mas tree. The top layer is red bean ice cream, followed next to vanilla soy icecream and green tea ice cream. The green tea ice cream was a tad strong if you had it by it's self, nevertheless if you had it together with the creamy vanilla soy, the sweetness of the vanilla smoothed the flavours out pretty nicely. The red beans were cooked just right not too sweet like some places have. A good ice cream recipe to try at home.
Back to our real favourite style of Japanese Ice Cream, soft cream. We like it much better than regular ‘hard’ ice cream.
This is a yummy combination of Japanese Matcha ice cream (Green Tea of course, and green in colour) and Taro ice cream (I think it is called sato potato and it was a very, very pale purple/lilac colour).
Taro ice cream is much like Ube ice cream, same kind of root potato vegetable except Ube is more purple and tastes faintly like a vanilla sweet potato.
Japanese green tea soft cream, yum, one of my favourites. Delicious folds of green tea ice-cream in a crispy cone, on the way to the KIyomizu temple, Japan.
This ice cream is much, much nicer than the ordinary Green Tea Ice Cream from the Japanese Haagen Daz stores.
Yummy, thumbs up! 
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Japanese Soft Cream ice cream with green tea sauce, green tea ice-cream and fruit pieces. This place has ridiculously big soft creams! The green tea topping isn't a good look though - looks kind of gritty.
Houjicha - Japanese roasted green tea ice cream.
Another soft cream style of Japanese Ice Cream. This one is light brown in colour and the flavour is a type of roasted green tea called houjicha. No idea what the ice cream tastes like but I have had the roasted tea before and didn't like that.
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Green Tea Ice Cream.
Want to make Green Tea Ice Cream well here you go.
Make your own Green Tea Ice Cream:
INGREDIENTS:
* 3/4 cup milk
* 2 egg yolks
* 5 tbsp sugar
* 3/4 cup heavy cream
* 1 tbsp maccha green tea powder
* 3 tbsps hot water
PREPARATION:
Mix hot water and green tea powder together in a bowl and set aside. Lightly whisk egg yolks in a pan. Add sugar in the pan and mix well. Gradually add milk in the pan and mix well. Put the pan on low heat and heat the mixture, stirring constantly.
When the mixture is thickened, remove the pan from the heat. Soak the bottom of the pan in ice water and cool the mixture. Add green tea in the egg mixture and mix well, cooling in ice water. Add whipped heavy cream in the mixture and stir gently. Pour the mixture in an ice cream maker and freeze, following instructions of the ice cream maker. Or, pour the mixture in a container and freeze, stirring the ice cream a few times.
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