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Friday 31 January 2014

Finding Exceptional Desserts Across The Globe

By Marquerite Velasquez


In the United States we have apple pie, chocolate chip cookies and ice cream and these are some of our most popular dessert treats. Around the world, however, there are many other interesting favorite desserts and here are just a few of the more unique offerings.

For example, people in Turkey love a special dish known as tavuk gogsu. The ingredients include chicken breast and milk, and the latter certainly isn't an ingredient that instantly springs to mind when you think of a dessert. The dish is actually a pudding created by finely shredding boiled chicken and mixing it with boiled milk, sugar, salt, coffee and cinnamon.

One more dessert that would interest anyone is one that uses ingredients which appear likely to be found in some savory dish and it has a name "crme de abacate." Such a dessert is actually Brazilian and it is a concoction using a mixture of avocado, sugar, lime and really heavy cream or condensed milk. So when you are in Brazil, don't be surprised if you see ice cream or any other cold and sweet drinks made from avocadoes as they even use this crme de abacate as filling for cakes or in smoothies.

Several other countries may offer some rather exotic dessert treats such as those chocolate-covered insects which are also popular. Take Thailand for instance where people take a fondness for crunchy crickets which are coated in chocolate and even lollipops with a scorpion right in the middle of it. There are countries which serve chocolate grasshoppers or other chocolate-covered insects, such as ants.

If you happen to be in Iran then you must be introduced to their special dessert, Faloodeh. Using corn starch, sugar syrup and also rose water, this dessert is actually made into thin noodles. Having been popularly consumed for the past 2,000 years up to present, this perhaps is one of the oldest cold desserts in existence. You will find it topped with pistachios or sour cherry syrup at times. Most every ice cream shop in Iran definitely is sure to serve customers this common treat.

After all of these desserts being featured, it must make you highly motivated to enjoy some of your favorite American treats and a long list of those you will find at YoKuMon, a popular ice cream shop in Culver City. At YoKuMon, you'll find ice cream cones, shakes, sundaes and their highly acclaimed ice cream sandwich at just $2 each. The ice cream sandwich is a signature treat at this shop, created using the finest ice cream sandwiched between two freshly baked cookies. The cookies are prepared throughout the day, so you are guaranteed an amazing, fresh cookie at any time you visit the shop. You can customize the sandwich any way you want with any flavor of ice cream and any variety of cookies.




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