Brown Sugar Boba Milk Tea Frozen Dessert – Imuraya

I initially found this tiny ice cream thing (not explicitly ice cream!) at my local Mitsuwa, along with a matcha with red bean and mochi version of it. I really liked the matcha version, as it had a good balance of all the components, and the packaging itself comes in a good pre-portioned snack size. Anyway, I bought this version a little bit before I came back to college, and I brought this one boba pack to me. For some reason, I still have it, and since I’m moving back soon, I need to eat as much of my food in my current inventory as possible. I wasn’t actively trying to save it or anything, but here we are. As a special occasion I suppose, today’s my last full day of studying before my last final tomorrow. I would save it for tomorrow, but I am assuming that I will get a drink with my family tomorrow…so I’m making a full day’s worth of studying my occasion. Hopefully, it tastes as good as all the advertising on the packaging.

I’m not sure if something went wrong along the way but when I opened it it was all icy…

It kind of tastes coffee-like? I can see where the brown sugar flavor is supposed to come from, but it’s more coffee-tasting-ish than milk tea I guess. There’s also some brown sugar syrup along the edges that also make it taste more coffee-like. I’m not sure what else I was expecting from a boba ice cream, but the “boba” in it is pretty tiny, and has the texture of crystal boba too, which is kinda meh for me, but frozen real boba isn’t going to work anyway. Overall fine as a dessert and ice cream I guess, but doesn’t live up to the packaging hype. Also definitely good that they didn’t market it as ice cream, because it isn’t that creamy…I heard there’s a legal reason why it’s “frozen dessert” as opposed to legitimate ice cream. Maybe I expected too much…