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[lsanderson]

FOOD STUFF - Nan, We Never Knew You Had It in You - By FLORENCE FABRICANT

"Rice and Ice Cream: An Oddly Appealing Couple

Mochi ice cream is to Hawaii what egg creams are to New York. It is made by wrapping a paste of sweet glutinous rice around a ball of ice cream. Bubbies Homemade Ice Cream, a Honolulu company that was started by Keith Robbins, a New Yorker, is selling mochi ice cream online and at Grace's Marketplace. Bubbies has a relatively delicate coating, in bright colors. The ice cream is good quality, too. The portions are an ounce and a quarter and come in more than 16 flavors, including litchi, green tea, tiramisù, strawberry and chocolate-coconut. A box of eight is $8.99 at Grace's or $43, with shipping, from www.bubbiesicecream.com. Larger assortments are also available."

Today's NY Times

Oddly fitting after ginger and green tea ice cream at Midori's Floating World last night.

Comments

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

"The Chinatown Ice Cream Factory" was offering things like red bean ice cream 20 years ago. They also offered Leechee and mango (one of their less exotic varieties).

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

midori's also has mochi there. i am not up on my mochi terminology, but it had ice cream in it.

i discovered that i don't like mochi; it tastes fine, but i can't get over the texture. (it is, i think, too much like shaved puppy leg.)

[drbombay.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love Midori's Floating World, even though I've only been there once. They had the best caterpillar roll I'd ever eaten.