gari
We try Japan’s new French toast ice cream
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Oona McGee
May 24, 2021 - Tweet
- Japan
- (Akaginyugyo • COK • desserts • food • french toast • gari • ice cream • review • SNJO • sweets • taste test)
Our Japanese reporter Ahiruneko is an admitted gari (pickled ginger) maniac. Whenever he goes into a sushi restaurant he’s sure to polish off as much of the pink sweet and sour flakes as he does actual sushi. Yes, for Ahiruneko, sushi just wouldn’t be sushi without gari.
But one day he heard some troubling news. Word had it that Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Russia were selling a chicken sandwich topped with gari. “What are the Russians thinking?!” thought our reporter as he set out in search of these mythical creations…
- Japan, Russia
- (fast food • gari • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • pickled ginger)
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