Deshi Milk Flavored Brick Shape Ice Cream Review

 

Fro-yo girl here. Good Fortune Supermarket’s Alhambra location has a freezer near the front door filled with interesting popsicles/ice pops from China. They open boxes of popsicles to sell them individually. The packaging is all in Chinese with no English translation.

I bought a package of Deshi Big Milk Brick ice cream. The packaging also says thirty years ago and not too sweet on it.

It’s a rectangular brick-shaped, milk—flavored ice cream bar. One bar is 70g. It’s realty good – very thick, creamy, and rich. It tastes rich and indulgent and it’s sweet but not crazy sweet.

The bars come in a box of five. At Good Fortune, one bar was just $1.29. They had another flavor, possibly chocolate.

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5 out of 5 stars.

* Good Fortune Supermarket, 300 W Main St, Ste 120, Alhambra, CA 91801

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Xiaomei Vanilla Ice Cream Cup Review

Fro-yo girl here. I found these Xiaomei ice cream cups at Good Fortune Supermarket in San Gabriel, CA. These ice cream cups are imported from Taiwan. I’ve had Xiaomei’s boba ice cream bars before, so I was somewhat familiar with the brand. However, I didn’t know the rich history of Xiaomei’s ice cream cups.

The founder of Xiaomei Ice Cream launched Taiwan’s first homemade vanilla ice cream in 1948. The ice cream is known for its taste and reasonable price. I imagine generations of Taiwanese have grown up eating Xiaomei ice cream cups.

The ice cream is sold a plastic bag that contains ten individually packaged cups. Good Fortune sells them individually for $0.84/cup. One cup is 66g.

Vanilla ice cream: The ice cream was fluffy, creamy but with icy edge, and with a strong vanilla flavor and scent. It was sweeter than I expected (too sweet), but pleasant. I can see it appealing to kids. It didn’t taste like high quality vanilla ice cream to me, but it was under $1, so I’m not surprised. It had too much air and was too sweet.

Available flavors: vanilla, chocolate, Swiss chocolate, yogurt

What? They have froyo. I have to look for it.

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* Good Fortune Supermarket, 300 W Main St, Ste 120, Alhambra, CA 91801

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HEYTEA Milk Tea Popsicle Review

Fro-yo girl here. Good Fortune sells HEYTEA popsicles individually. Each popsicle comes in a nice-looking box. The popsicle flavors are grape & cheese, cheese & peach, grapefruit & mango, and milk tea.

The popsicles seem to be inspired by HEYTEA’s drinks. The logo even features someone drinking something from a cup. HEYTEA is a milk tea shop founded in Guangdong, China in 2012. The founder claims to have created cheese tea. The text on the packaging was in Chinese except for the words Popsicle and HEYTEA. The translated text on the box said, “HiTea Milk Tea Boba Popsicle” and “bite and eat.” The illustration shows the different flavors and textures in the popsicle. The exterior is Ceylon black tea ice, the interior is Ceylon tea ice cream with brown sugar boba, and the bottom is chi chi ice cream. I don’t know what chi chi ice cream is but I think it’s a cheese foam ice cream.

Milk tea popsicle: It’s an interesting popsicle. The brown exterior was firm and icy. It tasted like milk tea and was pleasant though quite icy. The interior was soft and creamy tea-flavored ice cream with soft, sweet, and chewy brown sugar boba. The boba had great texture. The very bottom was a creamy, sweet, rich, cheesy ice cream that I didn’t like but wasn’t so bad when mixed with the milk tea flavor. I wasn’t that fond of the icy shell either, though I liked the milk tea flavor.

One popsicle is $2.99. It was interesting and worth it, but I’m over boba milk tea popsicles.

Good Fortune Supermarket, 300 W Main St, Ste 120, Alhambra, CA 91801

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White Rabbit Ice Cream Bar Review

Fro-yo girl here. I’ve been eyeing the GuangMing White Rabbit Ice Cream Bars for the last few years, but I didn’t want to buy an entire box of five bars. Fortunately, Good Fortune Supermarket in Alhambra sells them individually. White Rabbit bars are $2.99 each.

The bars are imported and a product of the Shanghai Yimin Food Factory in Shanghai, China. They’re made with milk and butter.

The packaging is cute because it looks like a giant White Rabbit candy. The ice cream bar is cylindrical, and it looks like a giant White Rabbit candy! It also smells and tastes like White Rabbit candy. If you’ve had White Rabbit candy, you would recognize the taste immediately. The bar was firm and didn’t melt quickly. I was amazed that it was also slightly chewy, like the candy. It tastes milky and sweet. Wow, I didn’t know an ice cream bar could be so similar to White Rabbit candy.

If you like White Rabbit candy, you must try these bars.

* Good Fortune Supermarket, 300 W Main St, Ste 120, Alhambra, CA 91801

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Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum Phoenix Tower Popsicle Review

Fro-yo girl here. I was excited to find Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum pops/ice bars imported from China, for sale at Good Fortune Supermarket in Alhambra. They’re sold individually for $2.99/popsicle or by the box. A box contains 3 individually wrapped popsicles.

I purchased the Zhenghongqi Armor popsicle and the Phoenix Tower popsicle. The Phoenix Tower was the tallest building in Shenyang during the Qing Dynasty.

The packaging is in Chinese. It says, “Shenyang Forbidden City Phoenix Tower Light Milk Ice Cream.” The wooden popsicle stick says Shenyang Forbidden City.

The back of the packaging has a photo of Phoenix Tower and a story about the building.

Each popsicle is 72g and is made with cream and milk. The popsicle looked just like the picture on the package, i.e., a three-story building.

The milk flavor seemed a bit off. It tasted a bit buttery and was creamy and firm but had an icy edge. It didn’t taste fresh. The strawberry Zhenghonggi Armor popsicle tasted better.

* Good Fortune Supermarket, 300 W Main St, Ste 120, Alhambra, CA 91801

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Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum Zhenghongqi Armor Popsicle Review

Fro-yo girl here. I was excited to find Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum pops/ice bars imported from China, for sale at Good Fortune Supermarket in Alhambra. They’re sold individually for $2.99/popsicle or by the box. A box contains 3 individually wrapped popsicles.

I purchased the Zhenghongqi Armor popsicle. The packaging is in Chinese. It says, “Shenyang Forbidden City Zhenghongqi Armor Succulent Berry Ice Cream.” The wooden popsicle stick says Shenyang Forbidden City. There’s a long story about the history of the armor on the back of the package. The armor is from the Eight Banners, the military organization of the Manchu.

Each popsicle is 72g and is made with milk, cream, and strawberries. The popsicle looked just like the picture on the package. I liked the flavor. The ice cream was creamy but with an icy edge and I could see some strawberry bits. The strawberry was blended throughout the pop. It tasted natural and not too sweet. It’s not as refreshing as a popsicle with less dairy, but it’s more satisfying. I’d like a little more strawberry flavor.

The Shenyang Imperial Place in Shenyang City is the only other royal palace in China (the other royal place is the one in Beijing’s Forbidden City). It was built in 1625 by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

4.5 out of 5 stars.

* Good Fortune Supermarket, 300 W Main St, Ste 120, Alhambra, CA 91801

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SLW Yogurt Drink Review

Fro-yo girl here. I was shopping at Good Fortune Supermarket in Monrovia, CA when I spotted bottled yogurt drinks. They looked like glass baby bottles and were priced at $2.99 each for a 280ml drink. The drinks are from Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China.

The original drink was creamy, tangy, and sweet. It reminded me of Beijing Yogurt. It was sweet but not crazy sweet and tasted more natural and more like yogurt than Yakult. Surprisingly, it wasn’t refrigerated.

One bottle is 200 calories, 4.5g total fat, 37g total carbs, 36g total sugars and 3g protein. The ingredient list is longish (it’s not just yogurt and water).

Available flavors: Mango, original, strawberry

4 out of 5 stars.

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Morinaga ALOVE Yogurt Review

Fro-yo girl here. Morinaga introduced a new Japanese style yogurt called ALOVE Yogurt at Natural Products EXPO West in March 2017. The new line of yogurt comes in three flavors: Original Aloe, Strawberry and Blueberry. It’s the first Japanese style aloe vera yogurt offered in the US. 

Morinaga describes their yogurt as “a delicious and nutritious, kosher-certified yogurt snack that offers a good source of protein and calcium, with no artificial flavors. Made in the U.S. from locally sourced California milk, the product contains zero high-fructose corn syrup, is gluten-free and does not contain aloin. ALOVE is made via Morinaga’s proprietary process; fresh aloe is removed from the aloe plant leaves, leaving only the best and tastiest parts, and then mixed into creamy yogurt.” 

The key selling point of this yogurt is the addition of aloe, which is considered by some to have many health benefits, such as supporting digestion and the immune system, promoting hair growth, lowering cholesterol and detoxification. Aloe drinks have become more popular and it’s sometimes added to tea drinks at Asian boba shops. 

I found ALOVE Yogurt at Good Fortune Supermarket in Monrovia, CA. They had all three flavors. One 6 oz cup was $1.48 on sale, $1.99 regular price. ALOVE Yogurt doesn’t appear to be strained, so it has a runny consistency. The tiny bits of aloe vera gel are soft and lightly sweet; they add texture and heft. It has live and active cultures. 

• Original aloe: This had the strongest aloe flavor, so this was the flavor that I liked the best. Aloe has a mild, sweet flavor. The yogurt was pretty tangy though not sour. One serving is 150 calories, with 4g total fat, 23g carbohydrates, 18g total sugars, and 6g of protein. 
• Blueberry: The blueberry flavor comes from blueberry juice, so it’s noticeable but not very strong. 
• Strawberry: The strawberry flavor was mild. The aloe flavor makes it a bit different. 

I wasn’t used to the thin, runny consistency. The yogurt wasn’t that different except for the aloe. If you really like aloe or believe in its health benefits, I recommend trying it. 

3.5 out of 5 stars. 

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* GOOD FORTUNE SUPERMARKET: 935 W Duarte Rd., Monrovia, CA 91016 

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Chocolates White Chocolate Yogurt Wafer Review

Fro-yo girl here. Korean and Japanese grocery stores sometimes carry interesting yogurt flavored snacks. However, the Chocolates White Chocolate Yogurt Wafers that I found recently at Good Fortune Supermarket, a Chinese supermarket, are imported from Taiwan. They’re manufactured by Hunya Foods, a chocolate company.

One package contains 9 individually wrapped cookies. Each cookie is 70 calories with 5g of fat.

The cookies are sugar wafer cookies, with thin, soft, crispy sugar wafer layers and thin layers of yogurt cream in between. The entire cookie is enrobed in a thin white chocolate coating. It has a mild tang that reminds me of Yakult. It also tastes powdery. The cookies are decent but I’m not a fan of Yakult.

Ingredients: Vegetable oil, flour, milk powder, glucose, sucrose, starch, lactose, polydextrose, maltose, butter, flavors, emulsifiers, lactic acid bacteria, leavening agent, soybean flour, malic acid, citric acid

3.5 out of 5 stars

* GOOD FORTUNE SUPERMARKET: 137 S San Gabriel Blvd., San Gabriel, CA 91776

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Jayone Yoger Yoger Review

Fro-yo girl here. I found a new yogurt flavored snack called Yoger Yoger at Good Fortune Supermarket. The cute packaging, which features a cartoon of someone dressed in a bunny suit, caught my eye.

Yoger Yoger is Korean and it’s imported by Jayone Foods. It’s a puffed corn snack that looks like a Cheetos puff or Tohato’s Caramel Corn. It’s firm to the touch and somewhat spongy once eaten. Flavor and taste wise it’s not that different from Tohato Caramel Corn. The thin yogurt coating is on the outside though it tastes more like a white chocolate coating than a yogurt coating. It’s pretty tasty (think of it like a cereal) though it doesn’t taste like yogurt, other than a faint hint of Yakult like flavor.

One package is 1.23 ounces, 165 calories, 6.3g of fat, 6g of sugar.

Ingredients: Whey powder, rice powder, corn powder, whole milk powder, sugar, palm oil, glucose, soy lecithin, yogurt flavor, vanillin flavor, citric acid, salt, baking powder

Yoger Yoger was only 79 cents at Good Fortune.

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4 out of 5 stars.

* GOOD FORTUNE SUPERMARKET: 935 W Duarte Rd., Monrovia, CA 91016

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