Kakigōri
| Kakigōri | |
|---|---|
| Dessert | |
 Kakigōri with green tea flavor | |
| Place of origin: | |
| Japan | |
| Main ingredient(s): | |
| Ice, syrup, condensed milk | |
| Variations: | |
| Shirokuma | |
| Recipes at Wikibooks: | |
 Kakigōri | |
| Media at Wikimedia Commons: | |
 Kakigōri |
Kakigōri (かき氷) is a Japanese shaved ice dessert flavored with syrup and condensed milk.[1]
Popular flavors include strawberry, cherry, lemon, green tea, grape, melon, "Blue Hawaii," sweet plum, and colorless syrup. Some shops provide colorful varieties by using two or more different syrups. To sweeten kakigōri, condensed milk is often poured on top of it. It is not like a snow cone: It has a much smoother fluffier ice consistency, much like fresh fallen snow, and a spoon is almost always used to eat it. The traditional way of making kakigōri uses a hand cranked machine to spin a block of ice over an ice shaving blade. Even though electric ice shavers are most often used, street vendors can still be seen hand-shaving ice blocks in the summer.
In addition to the streets, kakigōri is sold in festivals, convenience stores, coffee shops, and restaurants. During the hot summer months, kakigōri is sold virtually everywhere in Japan. Some shops serve it with ice cream and sweetened red beans or tapioca pearls.
See also
Media related to Kakigōri at Wikimedia Commons
Similar dishes in other cultures
- Baobing: The Taiwanese shaved-ice variant
- Patbingsu: The Korean shaved-ice variant
- Halo-halo: The Philippine shaved-ice variant
- Ais Kacang / Ais batu campur (ABC): The Malaysian shaved-ice variant.
- Grattachecca: The Italian shaved ice variant popular in Rome.
References
- ↑ 新明解国語辞典（第6版）、三省堂
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