4 Winter ice creams to eat under your kotatsu !

Yukimi Daifuku

The ice cream you'll want to eat in winter is Yukimi Daifuku.

In the Japanese commercial, a family is eating Yukimi Daifuku seated at their kotatsu. In our writer’s family this is the same, as soon as they place the kotatsu down, the children are longing for Yukimi Daifuku.

Yukimi Daifuku is a round vanilla ice cream coated with mochi.
The mochi and the vanilla ice cream are going well together, making the ice really delicious.

Before eating the Yukimi Daifuku, we recommend you to wait a few minutes for the ice to melt a bit and get softer.

Did you know that as the end of the year approaches, the “fuku” kanji written on the package becomes bigger? “Fuku” actually means fortune, blessing, luck. The big “Fuku” on the package getting bigger near the New Year are the company (Lotte) way of wishing people good fortune on the new year.

The product in the photo has a large “fuku” written on it!

The “fuku” is usually written in hiragana (on the first picture) but from time to time, rare packages on which “Fuku” is written in kanji.
You have, on the picture below, the rare Yukimi Daifuku package our reporter bought a year ago.

At that time, she didn't know that it was a rare package but took pictures, thinking that it might be useful someday.

Since Mattsuan became an asatan curator, she try to take pictures of what she is interested in and then think of what can be made into an article.

Parm

This is Mattsuan’s self-reward ice cream: “PARM”.

The ice cream is coated with chocolate and has a rich taste.

The picture shows Parm's family package she ate with her children. She usually eats it secretly, without telling the children. Our writer loves this ice cream so much that she wants to keep it for herself.

Ice Manjuu

But her favourite ice is "Ice Manju".

The vanilla ice cream and red bean paste go great together !

It's delicious from the first bite, but by the time you finish eating, the ice cream and red bean paste will begin to melt and blend together. This indescribable taste, is what Mattsuan loves about this ice. The last one bite of this ice cream is delicious.

Pino

“Pino” is also a self-reward ice cream.

This one-bite ice cream is so delicious that once you eat one, you can’t stop yourself. This kind of thing that you can’t stop eating until you’re full. Sadly, one pack only contains 6 ice creams.

Our writer usually buy the classic vanilla & chocolate flavoured Pino, but this time she bought the Cafe Mocha flavoured one.

The bitterness of coffee matched the sweet chocolate and was very delicious. Recommended for people who likes coffee and not-so-sweet, bitter foods.

By the way, Pino has also its “rare thing”. it is said that finding a heart-shaped Pino in your pack will bring you good luck.

Unfortunately, our writer didn’t get to see the heart-shaped Pino this time. She saw it some time ago but didn’t took a picture.

Heated room ice creams

Hokkaido consumes more ice cream in winter.
The snowy region of Hokkaido is cold. This is why every home and facilities have a least one heater. The heated room, the big and soft sweatshirt, sometimes you can even be too hot.
This is probably why the people of Hokkaido love ice cream. You should try it out too! By the way, our writer likes ski resort's ice cream too!

Our reporter already wrote an article about her favourite summer ice creams before. In her opinion, summer is the best to eat sorbets, fruity and refreshing types of ice creams. But in winter, she tends to crave for rich and milky ice creams.

All of them are easy to buy at supermarkets and convenience stores, so let's enjoy delicious ice cream even in winter!

■Stores

* Yukimi Daifuku. Ice Manju, Pino purchase shop
Store name: DZ Mart Shunko 5 Jo store
Address: 5-4-6-14 Shunko, Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido
Phone number: 0166-46-7776
Business hours: 10:00 - 21:30

* PARM purchase shop
Store name: Aeon Asahikawa Shunko store
Address: 10 Shunko-cho, Asahikawa-shi, Hokkaido
Phone number: 0166-55-3100
Business hours: 9:00 to 21:00