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The loss of the Ikea soft-serve ice cream cone left a hole in our hearts…but can we fill it with something else?
We’d had high hopes for the ice cream’s first jaunt outside of the U.S., but it’s not what we were expecting.
After looking at the brilliant gold leaf covering the World Heritage-listed temple, you can now eat it too, in a beautifully presented ice cream cone.
Japanese dessert lovers have a soft spot for soft-serve, and the popular chain is now happy to oblige them.
Temperatures are shooting up all around the archipelago and that means soft serve season has come to Japan! For some baffling reason, vanilla remains far and away the most popular flavor for Japanese, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get creative with their frozen treats too. Flavors like green tea and ume plum are easy to find (and delicious), but don’t stop there if you want to try some really out there local flavors.
Here are our choices for the 10 weirdest soft serve flavors Japan has to offer.
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