melon
Designed to perfectly fit that watermelon that you are obviously trying to carry around everywhere.
The signature fruit of Japan’s northern island is ready to delight sweets fans across the country.
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We aren’t sure whether to call it a dessert or a drink, but we do know you can have it at a conveyor belt sushi chain!
This new Kit Kat flavor certainly sounds fascinating, but you can only buy them at strictly limited locations!
Japan sure loves its parfaits, and while they all come with tasty toppings, the most highly regarded come crowned with fruit. But what if you turned the concept on its head, and instead took a piece of premium produce, then added a cone’s worth of ice cream on top?
You’d have our newest dessert infatuation: the fresh melon soft serve.
Japan is home to some mighty tasty and unbelievably expensive melons, but the absolute cutest ones come from Furano Melon in Hokkaido. No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you, that is indeed the mouthless face of Hello Kitty etched into the rind. We showed you similar melons last year, but there are a few small changes in celebration of Japan’s most famous cat turning the big 4-0.
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