Another Japanese fair at Isetan again. The Kyushu Fair can't beat the Hokkaido Fair, but here's a post about what I tried anyway.
Picture taken from Isetan's newsletter
Aso Natural Ice was selling gelato and sesame soft-ice cream (which wasn't available today). I sampled the following flavors- navel orange, milk, strawberry, green tea, barley and purchased a scoop of navel orange and strawberry gelato. The gelato was a tad icy, like sorbet- I much prefer Mashuko Dowa's rendition from the Hokkaido Fair. I enjoyed the strawberry bits studded inside the strawberry gelato, but it had a slightly strange-tasting twang which I can't put in words. The orange flavor fared better though. Wish I had bought the barley flavor instead! One scoop was going for $5 and two for $6.50.
My bag of catch! Sorry for the poorly-taken photo...Bought the minimum number of taiyakis (16 for $8.50) and gobbled 10 down in my attempt to try all the flavors. I was lucky the first five times before gobbling down two additional custard taiyakis and both rare cheese ones before I got to the one with the chestnut filling!
The fish-shaped griddlecakes came in eight flavors- plain (no filling), custard, red bean, chestnut, sweet potato, chocolate, caramel cream and rare cheese. Sadly not all of the taiyaki were warm when I had them (and they didn't taste as nice when cold, unlike the those which the rest of my family bought at the Isetan fair at Parkway Parade which I didn't get to try). The caramel cream filling was the clear winner, but the rare cheese, red bean and chocolate ones were good too.
Isetan Kyushu Fair
Till 22 March 2010