![]() While you could eat it this way, it probably wouldn’t be that tasty as you have a frozen ball of pounded sticky rice covering a hard-as-rock frozen spoonful of ice cream. When you first get your mochi it’s pretty much a frozen, icy hockey puck. The individual mochi’s are then packed together and either sold at the Bubbies shop or shipped to various distributors. Mochi ice cream, once made needs to be kept frozen so that the ice cream inside the doughy sticky rice doesn’t melt. I wanted to try a little bit of each, so I opted for 3 mochi ice cream balls: chocolate espresso, lychee and mango. So you’ve got your standard vanilla and strawberry flavors and your more tropical mango, guava and passion fruit flavors as well. I know it sounds kind of weird if you’ve never had it before, but it’s actually an amazing little ball of soft doughy ice cream.Īt Lawson Station they had quite a selection of several flavors of mochi, including: vanilla, strawberry, green tea, lychee, choco mint, choco espresso, passion fruit, guava, mango and lihi mui mango. ![]() You start with the pounded sticky rice flattened out like a disc, scoop in a small spoonful of flavorful ice cream, wrap the ice cream entirely within the mochi and then roll the entire one and a quarter ounce ball of goodness in cornstarch to keep them from sticking to one another. You can buy mochi balls on their own and add them as toppings for ice cream or frozen yogurt, or combine the two ingredients together and get mochi ice cream. Created in Japan, mochi is now popular worldwide. Mochi is essentially pounded sticky rice. What really excited me though was that Lawson Station advertised that they also had Bubbies mochi ice cream for sale! I knew then and there that I’d be making a visit to Lawson Station to get my mochi ice cream fix before the end of the trip. For example, Lawson Station was the only place I actually saw the very popular Hawaiian snack of musubi being sold – essentially a spam sushi. But, Lawson Station also sells a lot of local grab-and-go food popular to local Hawaiians. Imagine my surprise when we checked into our hotel on Waikiki Beach and I discovered a place that was serving up Bubbies Mochi Ice cream! Inside the Sheraton Waikiki there’s a large sundries store called Lawson Station selling everything from packages of macadamia nuts and plastic leis and grass skirts for souvenirs to more practical items which guests could use every day such as cold bottled water and sodas to grab-and-go snacks and cookies. Unfortunately, based upon it’s location, I knew that the likelihood that we’d have an opportunity to visit the store would be difficult as it was located in the heart of Honolulu and without a rental car, we’d pretty much be confined to Waikiki Beach. Of course, seeing an ice cream parlour famous for it’s mochi ice cream piqued my curiosity and interest immediately. Today, Bubbies is known as the industry leader in mochi ice cream with at least 20 different flavors which are shipped all over the Mainland and all over the world with the “Made-In-Hawaii” brand it’s become known for. Over the years it’s reputation for amazing ice cream and sorbets has grown along with it’s operations. ![]() Bubbies started in the mid 1980s as a homemade ice cream and sorbet store serving small batch, homemade desserts using local fresh fruits and tropical flavors of Hawaii. When I was doing some research on popular eateries in Honolulu, I came across a store called Bubbies Homemade Ice Cream & Desserts. The soft, chewy outside of the mochi and the creamy, tropical flavors of the ice cream inside are just the perfect combination. On a lunch date with my husband to Buddha’s Belly early last year, I was instantly reminded why I love mochi ice cream.
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