Do you like ice cream sandwich?
Here in Japan, there are so many good sandwiches ice cream and mostly these are used monaka wafers.
Luckily, these cost only around 100 yen.
Today, I categorize them into 3 groups.
It is a good way to find your favorite one!
Specialized in Ice Cream
First, I categorize ice cream sandwiches as the “Specialized in Ice Cream” group.
These ice creams are featured in ice cream.
Vanilla Monaka Jumbo
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Name: Vanilla Monaka Jumbo
Price:140yen
Calories:259kcal
Fat :16.8g(milk fat is 8.0%)
Size:150ml
Where you can buy it: Supermarkets and Convenience stores.
Vanilla Monaka Jumbo is a combination of vanilla ice cream and monaka wafers.
The product is focused on Vanilla ice cream. So, the taste of it is rich milk taste because it contains 8% of milk fat.
There is thin white chocolate between monaka wafers and ice cream. It makes monaka wafers keep crispy.
Mona Ou Uji Matcha flavor
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Name: Mona Ou Uji Matcha
Price:140yen
Calories:218kcal
Fat :10.1g(milk fat is 1.0%)
Size:160ml
Where you can buy it: Supermarkets(actually it’s difficult to find it)
Mona Ou Uji Matcha is a combination of matcha ice cream and monaka wafers.
It’s used Uji matcha in the ice cream. Uji is the name of the city in Kyoto. Uji matcha means matcha grown in Kyoto.
This is the only ice cream sandwich which is used matcha.
Ice Cream with the Chocolate
Second, I categorize ice cream sandwiches as “Ice Cream with the chocolate group.
These ice creams are featured in chocolate.
Choco Monaka Jumbo
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Name: Choco Monaka Jumbo
Price:140yen
Calories:302kcal
Fat :16.7g(milk fat is 3.0%)
Size:150ml
Where you can buy it: Supermarkets and Convenience stores.
Choco Monaka Jumbo consists of thin sheet chocolate sandwiched by ice cream, monaka wafers.
Ice cream is a rich milk taste. I think it has a high overrun* so that it’s not too heavy.
Chocolate is also not much sweet. That’s why combinations of them are really good.
*overrun is air contains in ice cream
The combination of ice cream and chocolate is perfect and also monaka wafers are always crispy.
The reason for crispy is they don’t have stocks. They adjust the volume of their production every 5 days.
Itachoco Ice
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Name: Itachoco Ice
Price:140yen
Calories:288kcal
Fat :21.0g(milk fat is 3.0%)
Size:70ml
Where you can buy it: Supermarkets and Convenience Stores.
In Japan, Itachoco means chocolate bar.
So, The Itachoco Ice really looks like a chocolate bar.
The ice cream is sandwiched by chocolate.
This product is categorized as ice cream, but 45% of it is chocolate.
The chocolate is not too sweet and you can enjoy the cacao flavor.
The ice cream is a rich milk flavor. So the combination of ice cream and chocolate is really nice.
I think it contains more than 50% of overrun, so you can enjoy a soft texture.
Japanese Sweets Ice Cream
Third, I categorize ice cream sandwiches as the “Japanese Sweets Ice Cream” group.
These ice creams look like Japanese traditional sweets.
Yawamochi Ice
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Name; Yawamochi Monaka
Price:140yen
Calories:248kcal
Fat:6.4g(milk fat is 5.6%)
Size:100ml
Where you can buy it: Supermarkets(actually it’s difficult to find it)
Yawamochi Monaka consists of ice cream sandwiched by monaka wafers.
Inside the monaka wafers, there are 3layer.
The first layer is ice cream. The second layer is azuki bean pastes. The third layer is mochi.
The ice cream is not too sweet, but you can taste rich milk flavor.
The azuki bean pastes are sweet, so the combination of ice cream and azuki bean pastes is nice.
The feature point of this product is that this is the only ice cream sandwich with mochi.
So, It looks like a Japanese traditional sweet which is Monaka.
So, if you wanna experience Japanese traditional food and Japanese ice cream, Yawamochi is the best choice.
Kin no Monaka
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Name; Kin no Monaka
Price:278yen
Calories:333kcal
Fat:13.9g(milk fat is 11.0%)
Size:115ml
Where you can buy it: Convenience Store(only Seven Eleven)