Kakigori

Kakigori is a traditional dish of the people of Japan and is a symbol of Japan in the summer. If you have traveled to Japan, you should not miss this delicious dish. This is a dish loved by all ages. Japanese shaved ice once appeared in the famous comic book Doraemon.

To create a delicious flavor for this dish, shops must use clean ice to cool naturally in a lake, not in a freezer. Then people will thin it and add a variety of ingredients on top, including syrup, condensed milk, or fruit. Kakigori has many flavors such as melon, peach, kiwi, strawberry, and Japanese citrus, or mix many flavors at the same time. Kakigori is extremely soft and melts on the tongue like freshly fallen snow.

Today, this traditional Japanese dish has been improved and many interesting variations have been introduced. Vendors in Japan are constantly exploring and creating interesting, delicious, and fun variations of Kakigori. They decorate the topping into funny shapes or Kakigori is covered with rum and set on fire.

Popular types of Kakigori shaved ice:

• Matcha Kakigori: This type of shaved ice with the main ingredients of sweet red beans, matcha, and condensed milk creates a traditional Japanese flavor, so many diners love this original flavor.

• Shirokuma Kakigori: A famous shaved ice dish in southern Japan with a layer of condensed milk along with fruit and jelly, and red bean powder mixed together extremely attractively. The top layer of shaved ice is sometimes made into a cute bear face shape because “Shiro Kuma” means “polar bear” in Japanese. In Japan, Shirokuma Kakigori is so popular that people can find commercial versions in convenience store freezers across Japan.