Tsujiri

A delicious matcha ice cream with corn flakes to add the crunch and azuki beans for a touch of sweetness to complement the slightly bitter matcha ice cream.

O-​maccha, maccha, m-​m-​m-​maccha! Get up on this!*
For anyone who’s been to Kyoto and had the pleasure of eating their green tea parfaits, Tsujiri is a nice go-​to if you need to scratch that itch. After all, they’ve been in this bizznazz since 1860!
For as little as $ 7.80, you can get a fully decked out parfait with red bean, jellies, mochi balls, and of course, green tea soft serve! Unless you’re very hungry, I recommend splitting the parfait with someone as it can be a lot.
Now to the important part– how does it taste? The green tea soft serve is a whole buncha YAAAAAS; in fact, next time I might just stick with the soft serve itself. The maccha flavour is strong and slightly bitter, but in a good way. I thought all the accoutrements were yummy but the texture left my mouth a little dry– not sure if it was the bitterness of the soft serve combined with the powdery mochi, but the end left me needing a tall glass of water.
If you’re craving soft serve, forget the queue at Llao Llao and head over the Tsujiri: green tea soft serve is ALWAYS a good idea!
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*If you sung the above to Salt-N-Pepa’s «Push It», we can totally be friends.

This is a great little spot for everything maccha soft serve! I was craving a cool dessert to refresh myself in the summer heat. I’ve been on a crazy green-​tea-​everything kick so I immediately did a search for maccha flavored desserts in the area and Unilocal lead me here.
Tsujiri is a small kiosk in the 3^rd floor basement of 313 Somerset. I wish they had dedicated seating-​even a small table or two– but luckily there were a few seats open at the large shared tables in the basement. They have a large menu with all kinds of soft serve parfaits and floats but I went with the plain maccha soft serve. At $ 4.80, it’s perfectly priced.
The soft serve itself is rather unsweet (for soft serve) with a slight bitter aftertaste from the maccha, but it still has a hint of sweetness and is plenty creamy. Its a perfectly refreshing treat that isn’t too sweet or cloying.
Though its tucked away in a corner of the lowest floor, Tsujiri is definitely worth visiting if you fancy some not-​too-​sweet soft serve.

The shiratama o-​maccha parfait gets 5 stars! Wish there was a seating area though, and that it wasn’t located in a dingy basement.

Not gonna lie, i only came here because i wanted something cold and the line for llao llao wrapped around the stall. Twice. I’m not waiting in line for frozen yogurt.
But this unassuming little place turned out to be such a gem. I got the Green Tea soft serve since everything else in the menu seems to have it as one of the ingredients anyway, so i figured it’s probably their specialty.
Best. Decision. Ever. Green tea ice cream isnt anything new, but Tsujiri’s is quite something. The texture is silky smooth, and the taste is definitely like that of matcha — not so sweet, with slight bitter after taste.
I may or may not have licked my cup clean as I walked back home.

I could taste the high quality authentic green tea here. I’ve been to Tokyo and the green tea desserts there including soft serves are usually not too sweet (and I prefer it that way).
Seems like many Singaporeans are big fan of super sweet stuff that’s why most desserts here are extremely sweet.
Tsujiri is the perfect place if you fond of natural mildy sweet with a slightly bitter taste of real Japanese green tea like me.
However, if you are unlike me, then it might not be your place.
They have a lot of options but still focusing mainly for green tea.
The one I had was houjicha milk latte with green tea soft serve it was excellent. :D

Oh Tsujiri, your matcha soft serve still draws my tastebuds, in spite of the new pretenders. Your kinaco (sp?) is like no other — raising your classically simple dessert onto a texturally exciting new level. Yes, I know I’m making a big deal out of soy bean powder, but it’s really quite delicious okay? Until those queues reach humanely acceptable levels (i.e. 5 minutes or less), llao llao and Honey Crème don’t have a thing on you. Be damned, you stacks of fruit and fairy floss. I’ve only got eyes for the green.