japanese ice cream

My mum changed her mind when we were at the tour agency. We're going to Tokyo and Osaka, because Hokkaido is rather... uh, scenery-centred, and the most exciting thing there is the Bear Ranch, which will probably be a whoop because it's winter and bears hibernate in winter.

There's a deer park in Osaka, and she says the deer there are really daring and will nudge you in the butt to get food.

Anyway I like Tokyo. The ice cream there is pretty cool. The last time we went there, there were these ice cream shops EVERYWHERE, and they all had this cute menu pinned up to the window. The menus were super pretty with all these colourful cones on them.

I was P3 then and couldn't read Jap, so I ordered ice cream based on either the colours, or the occasional Romanji printed under some of their better-selling ones, like, "sakura".

But now I'm equipped with a pretty good knowledge of hiragana/katakana, so YAY I am going back and ordering BASED ON THE FLAVOURS WHOOOOO!!!

Which is good in another way, because according to some research I did, there's lots of really strange flavours going around now, like jellyfish (with real jellyfish cubes! :O), corn and cheese, and... RAW HORSE :O

Gosh, what if I look at a random icecream and think that it's a nice colour, cos it reminds me of horses, and then I take a lick and "Oh damn! It IS horse!!!!"

Must brush up on katakana :O