Is it fabulous to have an ice cream if you have no appetite at all? Delicious and nutritious! I think ice cream is an amazing invention with attractive appearance and various flavors. As a dessert that kids and adults all like, nothing can compare with this semi-frozen sweet concoction. Ice cream can easily make our mouth water. So grab your spoon and let’s start to find the most distinctive ice creams all around the globe.
Italy-Gelato
Gelato is a sort of ice cream famous in Italy; it is higher in density and better in aroma than general American ice cream and has a variety of flavors to choose from. You can select many flavors and bring them together in one cup of ice cream, which is easier than choosing one single ice cream.
Japan-Ice Cream Mochi
The dessert lovers in Japan make ways to mix desserts that local people are fond of and sticky rice together with ice cream that the US people like very much and shape a savory food. Mochi is a kind of colorful sticky rice ball that is produced by beating various filling and rice combining with different ice creams, covered with thin white flour. It tastes fine with only two bites.
Argentina-Helado
You must never come to Argentina if you think that Italian ice cream were the best ice cream around the world. Helado is piled up like a cone with many ingredients, it tastes so good and has multiple flavors, and the vital thing is, it has caramel which is the best favorite for Argentineans.
Malaysia-Ais Kacang
The climate in East Asia (including Malaysia) is very hot and local people have made a water ice called Ais Kacang for cooling themselves. They often pour mixed ingredients with vivid colors on top of Ais Kacang, such as bean jelly, sweet corn, palm fruit, fruit slices, aloe, condensed milk and a heap of syrup for seasoning.
Vermont-Ben&Jerry’s
Ben&Jerry’s in Vermont of America is not for a category but for a brand. You can find its special and unique ice creams in city’s groceries or ice cream shops. People usually go line up to buy its ice cream for it is really famous and delicious. The factory nearby Burlington offers visitors to look around for a whole day.
Cornwall-Clotted Cream Ice Cream
Cornwall is well-known in UK with its clotted cream, which is made of by heating high temperature whole milk in steam and cooling to clot on the surface. The cream in this ice cream is very smooth and delicious that you’ll never forget in your lifetime, better have a try if you have an opportunity to visit UK.
Israel-Halva Ice Cream
In Israel, it is a kind of enjoyment to have ice cream mixed with Halva. Halva is the representative of Israel ice cream and is produced by grinding sesame combined with honey, the two of which are the best ingredients in making an ice cream. In this hot noon in Tel Aviv you will discover that people all are fond of Halva ice cream no matter were they local people or tourists.
Turkey-Dondurma
The traditional ice cream of Turkey is called Dondurma. It has a strong flexibility and tastes like taffy, very tough and doesn’t like other ice cream that is very easy to thaw. The peddler usually performs in front of passers-by to show them the toughness of Dondurma, and certainly lots of them especially the tourists in Turkey are attracted by it and they think that they must have one for eating and memorizing their journey.
India-Kulfi
The ice cream in India is more like frozen custard, which is made of by mixing sweet condensed milk with a pinch of spice. You can try to eat Kulfi with saffron, mango, cardamom and pistachio that local people like.
Germany-Spaghetti-eis
You must be careful when eating in Germany, for what you thought were spaghetti is actually an ice cream. Spaghetti-eis is made of vanilla ice cream and potato powder, pouring with strawberry jam and white chocolate chips. It has become a popular and novel dessert in Germany since 1960s.
Alaska-Akutaq
Akutaq is also called Alaska Ice Cream; traditionally it is produced by mixing animal fat with wild berries. And in current days Akutaq is fashionable in Alaska and has now many more flavors mainly focus on butter with blueberry, cranberry, salmonberry, cranberry son and apricot.
USA-Frozen Yogurt
Frozen Yogurt has become one of the best favored desserts for Americans since the Low-fat boom. Frozen yogurt has characteristics of healthy and low calorie that are emphasized in that period of time. It has lots of other advantages and in respect of nutrition, the main characteristic is that it contains the lactic acid bacteria which is active, and also it is rich in protein, vitamin BB, free amino acid and more which is good to people’s health.
