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Black Sesame Almond Blizzard

By jeni | July 16, 2008

John’s always been the experimental type when it comes to trying new foods, and of course living in Singapore is absolutely no exception. I’m more, hmmm, how do I say it? I’m more timid, I guess, when it comes to trying new things. For one thing I have a bit of an aversion to meat, don’t eat red meat and usually don’t eat pork, although the occasional piece of bacon does somehow sneak it’s way in my mouth. That doesn’t count though right? 

Anyway, that aversion to meat makes it kind of hard to get excited about trying a lot of the local food here – somehow seeing the duck hanging in the window of the food stall just doesn’t do it for me. Call me crazy. There will be no fish head soup in my future. Sorry. 

After a lengthy discussion in which John made me feel like a stupid close-minded American, it was decided that while he would try all of the savory local dishes, the ones with fishballs and pork dumplings and what not, I would try all of the sweet dishes. First on the list, the trio of almond blizzards from Dairy Queen. Now Dairy Queen should of course be a treat, but it was the weekend and it was hot (shocker) so we decided to give the black sesame almond blizzard a go the other day. 

 

I was apprehensive, but the time was right. There weren’t many people in the line, and John needed a break from walking because his new sandals were rubbing his feet raw. The order was placed – of course John totally chickened out and got a brownie blizzard. I was disappointed because I couldn’t see any blackness anywhere around the guy making the blizzard.

I was even more disappointed when I got the blizzard and it wasn’t black at all. In fact, all it really looked like was a kind of “off” brownie blizzard. Oh well, I was ready to give it a shot. 

I know I look surprised and maybe a little freaked out in this picture, but in reality, I quite liked the black sesame almond blizzard. The sesame flavor wasn’t overpowering, just nice and nutty, like you would expect a sesame seed to be I guess. And of course almonds are always good, and so is ice cream, so all in all, it was a decent experience.

John was not impressed.

We were both however, impressed by the small size of the Dairy Queen blizzard, and no, they didn’t have the option to get a huge ginormous one either. In the end, I only ate about a third of it, because while I liked the taste, I wasn’t in love with it and I didn’t want to eat it just because it was there. John liked his brownie blizzard, but I don’t think it was quite the same as at home. Such is life when halfway around the world though eh? 

There’s still the green tea almond and mango almond blizzards to try, but those may have to wait a while because I’m not really a fan of mango honestly, those don’t seem quite as outrageous as the black sesame did. 

Topics: food | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Black Sesame Almond Blizzard”

  1. KShumaker Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Those pics are awesome! The post is awesome. I love jeniandjohn.com!

  2. Megan S Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    I’m very excited that you tried the scary ice cream concoction. It is disappointing that it wasn’t more black though. Oh well. Love the blog!

  3. John Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    I actually kind of enjoyed that sesame Blizzard. I thought it was going to be disgusting but it was more than palatable. I wouldn’t order it over a chocolate brownie Blizzard, though. No way.

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