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| japanese desserts and sweets | |
| frozen desserts | |
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Popular flavors include: Strawberry , Lemon , Green Tea , Grape , Melon , blue-hawaii and colorless syrup. Some shops provide colorfull one by using two or more different syrups and called rainbow. To sweeten those ''Kakigōri'', Condensed Milk is often poured on top of it. It is similar to a Snow Cone but it has a slightly finer consistency and a spoon is almost always used. The traditional way of making it involves using a hand cranked machine to spin a block of ice over a razor blade shaver. These days electric machines are often used though street vendors with the hand crank machine are still exist in the summer. Many Japanese home have personal shaver to make ''Kakigōri'' in own home. Food stalls on Festival s, Convenience Store s, coffee shops, restaurants; during the hot summer months Kakigōri is sold virtually everywhere in Japan. Some coffee shops serve it with Ice Cream and sweet bean paste. It is so popular, convenience stores sell it already flavored and packaged similar to ice cream. In other countries in East Asia , similar sweets can be seen.
Korean shaved ice. The most popular one is ''Phasbingsu''. It is topped with sweetened red beans and canned fruits, Soybean powder and rice dumplings. Many other varieties can be found in the country.
Taiwan ese shaved ice. There are many varieties in Taiwan. Some of them are topped with fresh fruits, fruits syrup and condensed milk. Some of them are topped with sweetened beans, glutinous rice balls and brown sugar syrup. Even sea foods topped salty one can be found. Some venders using milk ice to make finer and tasty shaved ice, but some venders using sword to shave block ice to make rough crushed ice.
Philipino shaved ice topped with sweetened beans, Nata De Coco and Ice-cream . Some shops in Japan also provide this sweets. |
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