Azabu Sabo

itunes: 徳永英明, Vocalist (2005)



Check the Hokkaido ice cream from this shop out at Marina Square. What really interests me is the Green Tea & Red Bean flavour, a very classic Japanese flavour. The red bean paste bits blend in extremely well with the Green Tea, this in fact save the overall taste of this flavour because the base is a bit too milky which somehow dilute the green tea fragrance. If compare to Scoopz (see blog Scoopz Ice Cream), I think it's still inferior. Scoopz's green tea ice cream though not as milky as this, it does retain a slight milky taste which compliments the strong green tea smells even without the presence of red bean.

Logically speaking, in a green tea ice cream, the green tea should be the main role and milk which act as a base, should be less rich, just like Scoopz. Other brands like Haagen Daz, Andersen or in this case, Azabu Sabo, the milk has become the lead instead, therefore it should be called Green Tea-flavour milk ice cream because the focus is on the richness of the milk, not green tea.

Nevertheless, I did not try the rest of the flavours of this shop, I think it should not differ much from most of the ice creams found in Singapore.