Tuesday, June 17, 2025

17 June 2025 Sapporo: A New Ice Cream Experience

 



We had seen on the Youtube that Milk Mura serves ice cream with a unique twist.  First the soft serve ice cream is served in a cold mug instead of a cone.  This allows for a more leisurely eating experience.  Secondly the customer can choose from a huge variety of cordials to drip on the ice cream.  Everything from brandy, tequila, absinth, whiskey to tasty schnapps.  There were two options on the menu.  One was ice cream with a tiny crepe and some cream with two kinds of liquor.  The second choice was ice cream and three kinds of liquor.  Leslie chose the first and I chose the second.  When I say there were many liquors to choose from I mean it, there were probably 50 different varieties.  I chose a Hokkaido apricot brandy, limoncello and absinth and Leslie chose green tea and rose flavored schnapps.  They gave us another bonus liquor, black tea.  There were instructions on how to properly eat the ice cream and booze.  We had a great time trying all the flavors and the specific instructions all the while listening to French songs.  We were the only customers in the shoppe for the majority of the time but at the end another pair of folks showed up.  




We had a hard time finding the place.  


Most places had just a tiny sign on street level


Up on the 6th floor we found our special place


Both choices cost 2000 yen


Very specific instructions


All the choices of liquor


Big swirl of ice cream


Step one is to eat the ice cream down below the cup's edge


Leslie's crepe, cream and honey pot


The black tea


Brandy, limoncello and absinth


Green tea and rose schnapps


Kitty cookies


They served coffee and luckily it was just a small amount


These tiny ladles were to drip the booze onto the ice cream


Drip drip


And then eat


My coffee came in a penguin cup


The cookies are gone but the kitty has a fish


Hennessy!


The damage is done


Do crows smoke?


This one must


Or he just likes the box


Back on the trolly


Taking the outside loop


Driver shift change


The ropeway at the mountain lookout



  It has been 3 years and 12 days since we began our Migration