MISONO ICE CREAM — Restaurant in Otaru

(Tourist from Hong Kong, early March) I visited 美園 on a Monday afternoon. Otaru was not busy. Only few people on the street. We were attracted by the long history of this ice cream shop which established in 1919. The lady in the shop was very nice. Always with smile in her face. The shop has English menu. We ordered a pudding sundae and coffee sundae. The ice cream texture is between soft served and sand ice. The flavor including the taste of milk and yogurt (I actually mean Yakult), and there should be honey and some flavor like ginger and lemon peel by guess. I pretended to be the owner and joked to my boyfriend the ingredients are actually secret. After that we read a Chinese interview showing on the table mentioning exactly what i was saying. Lol. My sundae also with melon juice in it. Which melon flavor in Hokkaido is so popular and the taste is so good! (In fact the Yaburi melon is so famous and precious) The menu was written in Chinese characters which were probably the translation in the old days. In a very different way. If you know Chinese you could tell how interesting it is. Overall is a good place that I highly recommended. It is uneasy to run a business for so long. You should get to know about their history and the...

After walking around Otaru Canal, we wanted a little sweet treat and we found this ice cream place in this shopping street and we went up the stairs to the place and it felt like I just entered to someone grandparents house and it felt nice and cozy, the two older folks with not that much English were very nice and we appreciate how hard they were trying to communicate with us. We ordered two sundaes, they are kinda pricey but I overall enjoyed them and when we were ready to pay they were so sweet to us and thanked us and waved us goodbye.

I would recommend this place if you’re interested in a retro style atmosphere since the store have been around...

Vintage atmosphere, business ran by 2 lovely elders (thus we have to wait a while until the ice cream come to our table). The ice cream is not like the usual ice cream that you eat, I bet you never taste an ice cream like this. It has ginger&honey flavor inside (even though they don't use ginger). The price was a bit expensive though, but I think it was worth...