Gisshiri Manzoku Choco-minto: Convenience Store Mint Chocolate Ice Cream

Lately I've had a craving for ice cream, particularly the sweet, but refreshing flavour of mint chocolate. Usually this flavour is found in to be in season at convenience stores around late autumn. You'll find not only mint chocolate ice cream, but also chocolates and other sweets made with this universal flavour.

Gisshiri Manzoku Choco-minto is one brand I found at Family Mart. Gisshiri, meaning packed, and manzoku, meaning satisfied, you can tell by the name that they try to fit as much chocolate in their ice cream as they can without loosing its ice cream feel. The little bits of crushed chocolate dispersed throughout the creaminess, make the texture have little crunch and ensures uniformity in every bite. It was a good balance of minty and sweet, leaving a refreshing aftertaste and coolness in the throat. I didn't get a sense of there being more chocolate than a conventional mint chocolate ice cream, but overall a nice mint chocolate.