Häagen Dazs 20.02.14

So in Japan, recently Häagen Dazs released two new, seasonal flavours for their "30th anniversary".

One I am a fan of myself.. the other one!? Not so much. The flavours are: sakura (cherry blossom), and rose. Can you guess which one that I do not find desirable? The rose flavoured one of course. Although I have not tried it out myself, I am also just as sure that I will not. I think that rose is something you either love, or hate. As much as I love the flower itself.. I absolutely do not like rose fragrances, flavours.. or anything similar to that. Blehhh.

Sakura, anyhow, I really like. It reminds me of bubblegum taste. When I've eaten, or been drinking something with sakura flavour, I immediately become reminded of my childhood. Every now and then, my mother would buy me this pink, soft bubblegum in a tube, that I always loved to chew. With a taste so sweet.

But I won't lie. Sakura is a complicated flavour. You can easily go wrong with it. For example, I've eaten sakura softcream, that wasn't a big hit. Häagen Dazs sakura ice cream is however awesome, . Starbucks Sakura Latte isn't that good either. Way too milky. It takes a pro to master the flavour of sakura.

Anyhoo, back to the topic, me and sweetie bought both sakura and rose. His sister wanted to try out both flavours. So I've taken a couple of pictures of both the ice creams.

If you're in Japan, take this opportunity to buy any of these ice creams, while they're still available. I recommend sakura one. If you're a fan of cherry blossoms, you'll be a fan of this ice cream too. The price is around 180¥ if I remember correctly :)

Which one of these would you like to try out!?

Weekend In Japan

So this saturday I went to Chiba for a day with my boyfriend's mother. It was very enjoyable. We went there by bus. We tried different sake, went to a カスチラ (castella) factory, looked at flowers, stopped by the sea, and bough some food from different local shops. Actually I didn't take a lot of photos since we were short on time. But at least I got some pics :)

The castella factory ^^ 

We bought 紅茶 (black tea) 抹茶 (green tea),

 and strawberry castella

Just some pics.

 I saw a real octopus for the first time in my life. 

It was really fun and surprising. 

Unfortunately, I couldn't take any photo of it since it was so fast.

We ate ramen for dinner with my boyfriend after coming back from our trip. 

Sunday, me and le boyfriend went to Kita-senju and just walked around in different shops. Nothing special really, but it was really nice spending time with him. I found some cute accessories and my boyfriend bought them for me ♡♡ . On our way to home we stopped by Mr Donuts to buy some calpis donuts, and get a calpis glass!! (I love calpis so much lol.) Five donuts + calpis glass for 700¥... totally worth it! ♡

                                 

The pictures turned out quite bad. 

Anyway, this is the accessories. 

I really like the half moon necklace, it's so cute.

I like how the earrings are discrete ♡

 And I'm happy I found an anklet. 

I've been looking for it for a long time in Sweden. 

But it doesn't seem popular in there anymore. 

           

Calpis donuts. My favourite was pon de ring. 

The blue ones have got soda flavour.

 But I thought the flavour was a bit too strong for me.

The pink one is strawberry flavoured,

 with original calpis flavoured cream inside.

And finally, the glass!! 

It is so cute, and surely it will be used frequently lol. 

This is not from this weekend, but from today actually

. I LOVE this yoghurt so much ♡♡♡ 

"custard vanilla yoghurt" , and I've been missing it a lot. 

Even though we have many different type of yoghurts in Sweden, 

we don't have anything as awesome as this custard yoghurt.