Yummy Cantaloupe Ice Cream soft serve in Japan.
I have always wondered what the difference was between Cantaloupe and Rockmelon, I always thought the 'webbing' on the skin was different but apparently there is no difference at all, just different areas of the world call them by different names.
Here is a good post from an Australian talking about it. What do you call it Rockmelon or Cantaloupe?
Cantaloupe or rockmelon from Australia and its cross section (Photo credit: Wikipedia
A nice Japanese softcream. It didn't have much flavour though, more like vanilla.
Nothing nicer in Summer than a nice Japanese softcream and one of the best would be this chocolate and vanilla ice cream cone.
I showed a little while back a Gundam Robot Ice cream and much better than this ice cream arcade machine but this is different. This is a real robot that makes and serves you nice Japanese Soft Cream icecream.
You simply make your ice cream selection on a touch-screen then the ice cream robot picks out a cone and fills it up with creamy vanilla soft-cream (soft serve ice cream). After that is done it then drizzles the chocolate (or whatever you picked) sauce over it, adds crunchy toppings like nuts to finish it off. Once that is done it passes your Japanese ice cream through the serving window for you to take and eat.
Here's a video showing how it is all done.
A really nice ice cream – Japanese vanilla soft cream sitting on top of warm sweet potato. Yum!
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.
No Mochi Ice Cream recipe today. This wonderful looking ice cream is from the Japanese company called Glico. It is a huge soft serve with hard chocolate on it. I like how they made to be all striped by the chocolate running down the ice cream grooves. Nothing special about the ice cream taste, it was nice but the best thing is the looks.
A Japanese cafe with a huge, huge range of soft serve ice cream. The flavours? Try vanilla, blueberry, vanilla & green tea, banana, caramel, Hokkaido melon, mikan orange peel, vanilla & chocolate, vanilla & strawberry, chestnut, black sesame and sweet potato … few!! And not in the photo - cappuccino, tofu, peanut and grape.
The photo looks like the shop assistant has a funny ice cream hat, doesn’t it.
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.
Here are a couple of photos from a Japanese McDonalds. I haven’t seen the double sized Mega Big Mac back at home but it looks like it would be good.
The McFlurry was good, just like the Oreo ones back home except this one on special also had caramel flavoured bits as well.
All pretty nice but I guess not a real Japanese Ice Cream is it? 
This Japanese Ice Cream is like your own portable soft serve machine :) . As you can tell by the photo it is a little flexi bag thingy full of soft serve ice cream that you squeeze out into a bowl or cone .. or even just squeeze and suck it out if you can’t wait.
This one is Lotte brand and was Red bean and vanilla flavour and I have seen a chocolate chip vanilla ice cream one as well.
Not much to really say about this except isn’t it a great photo of a Japanese Ice Cream vendor. You see a fair few of these ice cream vans around the place and , usually, they have the best Japanese soft cream. I posted a different photo a while back of an Ice Cream bus.
I wish I had a nice Cherry Blossom soft cream right now!
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! 
Keep checking back here for more Japanese Ice Cream.
A bit of a strange mix this one and one I don't think would work. Take your regular shaved ice cone and then top it with various types of Japanese Soft Cream. So you can have Rasberry shaved ice with Wasabi soft cream... no thanks. Maybe it is not that bad, maybe.
And what is with the Deer biscuits (even they say not very tasty)
A Japanese soft cream (ice cream) menu.
黒胡麻(kuro-goma) = "black sesame"
抹茶(maccha) = "powdered green tea"
キャラメル(kyarameru) = "caramel"
バニラ(banira) = "vanilla"
ブルーベリー(burūberī) = "blueberry"
薩摩芋(Satsumo-imo) = "sweet potato"
チョコレート(chokorēto) = "chocolate"
