Mochi Ice Cream

by Celia Sin-Tien Cheng
November 15, 2007

BUBBIES
Bierkraft
191 5th Ave
(5th & 6th Aves)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-230-7600
$$

Also sold at Whole Foods stores in New York and at
GourmetFoodMall.com

I grew up eating Bubbies ice cream in Honolulu (on University Avenue, next to Varsity Theater) and I always loved it. And it seems that mainlanders feel the same way as Bubbies has made its way across the Pacific Ocean, selling products to top restaurants and markets throughout the mainland. Their mochi ice cream has become rather ubiquitous in gourmet food stores in the City. Mochi ice cream, a modern Japanese desset, is an ice-cream-filled rice cake. I’m currently hooked on the guava. It’s light, delicate and flavorful, and the pink mochi skin is soft, thin and chewy. Even when extremely frozen, I can’t help but eagerly pop them in my mouth. Never too hard to bite into, they are a treat I don’t tire of.

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