Over the past two years, I've tried cold confections from various Japanese ice cream parlors at the seasonal Isetan food fairs. Blue Seal is horrendous, Aso Natural Ice is acceptable and Mashuko Dowa's decent. But my favorite has got to be Malga Gelato, which is currently retailing at the Hokuriku Fair.
Passionfruit & Green tea
What makes Malga Gelato stand out from the rest is its slightly icy but delightfully soft and smooth texture. Every flavor I tried was a pure flavor experience, which can only be achieved when simple and natural ingredients are used. The Passionfruit sorbet was pleasingly refreshing, but I liked the intense green tea gelato even more!
Other flavors include black sesame, chocolate, kaga plum wine, pebbly strawberry and vanilla. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll be able to get my hands on the natural salt gelato before the fair ends!
Hokuriku Fair
Isetan Scotts Supermarket
Till 14 Nov 2010
I shall try it this wk! :D
ReplyDeleteGelato from Hokkaido are still the best. It's in the Hokkaido milk they use.
ReplyDeleteCream Dowa's from Hokkaido. Decent it's not, it's exceptionally good.
ReplyDeleteGreat ! Juz walked by earlier...but wasn't sure which flavours to try ! Thanks for the "heads up" !!! Will check it out later !!! Glad that U are in my Blog List !!!
ReplyDeleteCheers !
Andrew ;-)
bella v: i'm glad you liked it as well (:
ReplyDeleteice: i love the texture of both malga and cream dowa gelato, but malga's flavors seem to fare better this year. cream dowa's strawberry wasn't as fruity as malga's, neither was its green tea as intense. still, i must agree hokkaido milk makes really good gelato!
andyk+ceo: hope you'll like it!