Kakigōri
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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 with. The traditional way of making kakigōri involves using a hand cranked machine to spin a block of ice over an ice shaving blade. However, electric ice shavers are most often used, though street vendors can still be seen hand-shaving ice blocks in the summer.
In addition to the streets, kakigōri is also 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 and or tapioca pearls. Often condensed milk is used as a cap on the top of it.
[edit] See also
- Baobing: The Chinese shaved ice variant
- Patbingsu: The Korean shaved ice variant
- Kōrikoppu: The dedicated glassware which mainly used for Kakigōri before the World War II. (ja)
[edit] References
- ^ 新明解国語辞典（第6版）、三省堂
