I do have somewhat of a penchant for trawling ethnic food stores for weird and wonderful ingredients and products. Today’s find was care of Green Mart at 297 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.
Taiyaki is traditionally a Japanese cake shaped like a sea-bream, filled with things such as adzuki red bean paste, custard or chocolate. In Korea, it is known as Bungeoppang, and it comes as the ice treat version I had today.
The casing is like a communion wafer – thin, crispy and somewhat holy. Inside, a highly manufactured vanilla ice confection (you know…the one that tastes really good), is generously smeared with a sweet strawberry-like red bean jam.
So in summary – it was funny to look at, yummy to eat, and on a 39 degree Celsius day, damn satisfying. And at $1.80, what more could you ask for?
Cute little fella!
Hey there Cindy! Yeah…he is cutesy adorable, huh? And it is probably one of the few times where the product likes EXACTLY like the picture on the packaging
It did look rather interesting, not sure if I’ll get around to trying it though… I’m more of a Paddle Pop girl myself!
I’ll definitely keep it in mind as an option, though.
Come on Anna…where’s your sense of adventure?
At the end of the day it just tasted like strawberry topping on icecream in a cone. Not fishy at all 
HEY! I had this yesterday! Took me forever to find Green Mart though coz I forgot the address (and for some reason I imagined Green Mart to look like this other Chinese grocery store =____=;;).
It’s REALLY nice! Although I doubt I would be able to finish it without my bf’s help. The sweetness got a bit much for me after a while.
Hey there snoo – mmm, yummy, huh? I’ve also seen them at Minh Phat, which is the asian grocers over the road from Queen Vic Market.
There are soo many weird ice creams to try. Actually I should go find another one to blog
…do you like my attempt at trying to justify eating ice cream?!?!
I am looking for a source for the taiyaki ice cream in Phoenix, AZ area in the U.S.A.. So far, I have not had much luck. The first place I purchased them, stopped selling them and wouldn’t or couldn’t give a reason why!
If anyone can help I would be grateful!
Thanks Diana
Yummy!I want it again.Yesterday i just buy it.and it so yummy