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Sep 6, 2020Liked by Mark Frauenfelder

The Tokyo ice cream shop looks like something that IG user: tokyobuild would re-create.

https://instagram.com/tokyobuild?igshid=1l1itt6w0e3py

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Sep 7, 2020Liked by Mark Frauenfelder

I actually thought it was one of his models when I saw the image!

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Sep 6, 2020Liked by Mark Frauenfelder

I'm going to dream about that ice cream stand.

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It was dreamlike. I just stood there mesmerized.

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Sep 6, 2020Liked by Mark Frauenfelder

Was it ice cream (hard ice cream scooped by hand)? or "soft serve" (extruded from a nozzle)? We loved the many soft serve treats we had in Japan and some in very odd settings, like an ice cream shop inside of a giant auto parts store (AutoBacs). Crazy cool flavors, like "rose." My fave was a grey-colored confection (and I was was warned by the server "NOT licorice!")--it was kurogoma (black sesame seed). I can get kurogoma -flavored shakes here in Seattle at Katsu Burger!

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It was soft serve. We love the Hokkaido milk soft serve in Japan. Not too sweet. We had the black sesame ice cream in Kyoto and it was amazing!

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Hey Mark, I think you need to add a zero onto the number of copies sold in the last story.

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You're right! I corrected it on the website. Thanks, CopperThumb!

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