Newly launched today, I had no regrets making a special trip down just to get my hands on this flavour. In case you are wondering, mitarashi is made from shoyu ; yes that’s right- SOY SAUCE! 🍶 Usually found as a sauce drizzled on dango balls, it’s now churned into a softserve, made using a premium grade Shoyu aged for 10 years sourced specially from Akita in Japan by @matchayasg 💚. Limited portions available! Just like many out there, the thoughts of “soy sauce” 酱油 in a softserve resulted in some initial doubts and qualms that I decided to play safe and opted for mixed flavour (just in case savoury softserve aren’t my cup of tea 🍵 ). However, just one mouth was all I took to be get me sold! 💖 Bearing a smooth, creamy and melt-in-the mouth texture, the subtle savoury umami flavour of shoyu was accompanied with a lingering caramelised, burnt fragrance that leggit resembled salted caramel- a perfect combination that worked wonders to my palate and made me instantly regretted not having it as a single flavour instead! The kinako kuromitsu parfait (mixed flavour) comes with a base of toasted rice puffs drizzled with kuromitsu sauce which lended a pleasant crunch factor, azuki beans (which I requested to be omitted), topped with jelly-like chewy warabi mochi, shiratama (the renowned partner-in-crime to mitarashi🍦), dustings of kinako powder that added a lingering roasted flavour and fragrance. Last but not least, the default Langue de chat biscuit that’s always so match-a necessity (for me at least 🙈). The matcha softserve, as usual bears a distinctive, lingering earthy flavour with a characteristic bitter undertone which overwhelmed the weaker mitarashi flavour. So gonna get a solo mitarashi on my next visit!!! Please let it be available till next week at least 🙏🏻🙏🏻 .
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