Dairy Farm Stand · Milk Soft Serve
Hokkaido Soft Cream
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Hokkaido produces more than half of all the raw milk in Japan, and its soft serve is so much higher in butterfat that a cone here tastes noticeably richer and paler than soft serve found anywhere else in the country.
A dense, high-butterfat soft serve made straight from Hokkaido's own dairies is sold from farm stands and roadside stops across the island, often folded with local specialty flavors like lavender, melon or azuki bean.
Why it's made this way: Hokkaido's wide-open pastureland, rare in mountainous Japan, made it the center of Japanese dairy farming from the Meiji-era settlement of the island onward, when American advisers helped introduce Western-style cattle raising, and its dairy industry has since scaled into a soft-serve culture that's an attraction in its own right.
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