Well, in Toronto, the mucky yucky sticky weather is back with a vengence after a long cool spring. Personally, I prefer colder temperature though of course my training (namely inline skating and dragonboat) benefits much from the warm weather. That being said, there are things that I look forward to in summer, one of which is ice-cream. It's not like I don't eat ice-cream all-year-round. However, cooling off under the unrelenting sun with a cold creamy treat certainly enhances the experience that much more.
Only a few weeks ago, EG and I dropped by J-Town for a midday snack. I had a craving for their green tea soft-serve ice-cream but I was disappointed to find out that apparently Bakery Nakamura only have soft-serve ice-cream available in the summer months. Luckily, summer has now officially arrived and I finally got my hands on one of those pale green swirl of creaminess. The taste of green tea is very subtle. In fact, I would not recommend getting the green tea vanilla two-tone swirl because the taste of vanilla would likely overwhelm the green tea flavour.
As I sat on the bench with my ice-cream cone, I vividly recalled my experience with the ice-cream theme park in Namja Town a few years ago in Tokyo. I was totally mesmerized by their selection of soft-serve ice-cream with flavours such as black sesame, peach, muscat grapes, melon, and Hokkaido milk, just to name a few. Vanilla is good but I really do miss the variety sometimes.
