Showing posts with label Sea Salt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sea Salt. Show all posts

Monday, April 24, 2017

Nu Oceana's Sea Salt Lemonade

Gue nggak bakal nyobain produk baru karya PT ABC President Indonesia yang satu ini kalau nggak dikasih tau sama Dheo. "Adek aku udah pernah coba, lho. Katanya enak," begitu katanya. Penasaran, dong, apalagi ada embel-embel "sea salt" di kemasan produknya, gue makin ngebet kepinging nyobain. Sayangnya, pas gue lagi coba cari di supermarket, entah kenapa nggak ada terus. Sampai pada akhirnya, pas gue lagi nggak nyari, botolnya muncul selagi gue kelayapan di salah satu lorong Farmers Market.


Ekspektasi gue adalah minuman ini akan berasa asin, tapi manis, persis kayak Sea Salt Ice Cream, tapi tanpa rasa Vanilla-nya. Gue coba, lah, mumpung lagi ada waktu 37 detik sebelum hero gue respawn (Iya, waktu itu lagi main DOTA sama Dheo). Udah deg-degan sama rasanya yang sepertinya bakal ajaib banget dan ternyata.. biasa aja. Agak mirip Pocari Sweat, tapi lebih mirip Mizone. Rasanya manis dan cenderung kuat di rasa lemonnya, tapi nggak ada rasa asin dari sea salt-nya sama sekali. Kayaknya lebih asinan minum Oralit ketimbang ini.

Ya, enak-enak aja, sih, buat kalian yang gemar banget sama Mizone. Lebih enak lagi kalau diminumnya saat dingin. Tapi, gue kecewa. Rasanya ya udah, nggak ajaib. 

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Sea Salt Ice Cream

"It's salty, but sweet, too," said Roxas, tasting his first Sea Salt Ice Cream. Roxas here is a character from Kingdom Hearts, an action role-playing game published by Square Etnix and Disney Interactive Studios. Roxas, and his buddy Axel, usually buy ice cream, preferably Sea Salt Ice Cream, then climb  a clock tower to indulge their cold treats. Why clock tower? I have no idea. Why Sea Salt Ice Cream? Apparently, the sweet and salty ice cream is Tetsuya Nomura's, the writer of Kingdom Hearts, favorite ice cream. 

Roxas, with his first Sea Salt Ice Cream
Picture taken from Tumblr.com

"Axel and Roxas just promises each other to always go for ice cream after missions," said Dila, a best friend of mine who is into Kingdom Hearts. Even though 14-year-old me doesn't really occupy oneself in this particular Square Etnix's game, she couldn't help but to wonder what Sea Salt Ice Cream tastes like.

Axel and Roxas, indulging on Sea Salt Ice Cream
Picture taken from Tumblr.com

Last year, my curiosity finally came to an end! My parents and I were on a vacation in Japan, and one day, we decided to pay a visit to Tokyo DisneySea. We were at Port Discovery when I found the precious dessert. It was raining at that moment - the temperature was quite low, making the raindrops froze and left painful scratches when they touched my cheeks - and there I was, handing a ¥ 500 to an ice cream seller and got my hand on the famous Sea Salt Ice Cream. I was beyond excited.

The pink and heart-shaped ice cream container, with drawing of Minnie Mouse on it

As I opened the ice cream container, I was welcomed by a cup of white ice cream. "What is this, Vanilla Ice Cream," I thought to myself, "nah, it couldn't be. The cup clearly said 'Sea Salt Ice Cream'." A wee plastic spoon was given to me by the ice cream seller so that I can eat the ice cream. I scoop a bit of the so-called salty and sweet treats and I went full Roxas. "It's salty, but sweet! IT'S SALTY, BUT SWEET! MY LIFE IS PERFECT!". 

My theory was that the ice cream is actually Vanilla ice cream that was sprinkled with sea salt, which made it tasted sweet and salty at the same time. It was very creamy and milky, and rather light for an ice cream. Yes, it was very expensive for a cup of ice cream, but in the end, I finally managed to get myself some Sea Salt Ice Cream and I got myself a lovely container that I used on the following day to store some bacons that I got from a hotel's breakfast buffet. It worth every Yen. 

It's salty, but sweet!


Port Discovery, Tokyo DisneySea
Urayasu, Chiba - Japan