Black Tapioca Zunda Shake – Kikusuian

Today we’re leaving Sendai, and as our last item of business, we’re getting one last Zunda shake before our train. Zunda is basically mashed edamame paste, and it’s one of the big famous foods of Sendai. We went to the Zunda Saryo shop yesterday, where we passed this shop offering shakes with boba. My mom and I took a mental note of it to get this morning…

It was pretty good, and it’s not like the flavor was new or anything because I had a shake the day before. The flavor profile is a bit difficult to describe, because if you tell someone it’s an edamame milkshake, that probably sounds weird, but it weirdly works and it’s really good. Todays felt more ice cream-like, probably because this shop also sells soft serve too, but the Zunda flavor was still there. The boba was fine, no flavor ok it’s own, decently chewy, though I did get one totally uncooked one, but hey, it’s not coming from a boba shop, and that’s already decent quality.