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Green Tea

I used to despise green tea. Not green tea the drink itself but rather, stuff that are made flavoured with green tea. Green tea ice cream, green tea cake, green tea whatever there is. The colour doesn't look appetising at all. Dark green... It reminds us of vegetables and truth be told, who likes the taste of chlorophyll? It's so... grassy.

But one day while out on a shopping trip with my family, we decided to eat ice cream. I wasn't in the mood for rich flavoured ice cream like chocolate, nor was I in the mood for ice cream I've eaten before. In short, I was in an adventurous mood so... I tried green tea ice cream!

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The first green tea ice cream I tried was from some gelato shop. At first, the chlorophyll smell was overwhelming but the more I eat, the more I enjoy the surprisingly refreshing combination of green tea, the coldness and creaminess. Haha I'm bad at describing how food (or anything for that matter) feels and taste like. Just try it! Maybe you'll like it =)

And from then on, I started to try other foods that contain green tea. One of it is matcha au lait. It's green tea plus milk. I've always tried it warm but I think it would taste better cold. Creamy but the green tea smell isn't too strong. 


This adventurous foodie eventually tried out the new Secret Recipe Green Tea Cheesecake as well...

And she has to say: She didn't enjoy it.

The combination of cream cheese and green tea somehow made the green tea smell become too overpowering. Not nice not nice not nice~

Yucky.

But Green Tea flavoured Snow Ice? Awesome =D

My mom too got introduced to matcha through Sakae Sushi's genmaicha, which is roasted brown rice with green tea. I found out that she likes green tea too when she suggested we buy green tea cake from RT Pastry Shop (Subang Jaya branch). Sorry but there is no photo available of the cake. It is way better than Secret Recipe's take on Green Tea cake. Green tea fans staying around Subang should try it =D

By the way, I realised that green tea stuff is always coupled with red bean. I wonder why?
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