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Gochujang Caramel Cookie Dough
Red Bean Choc Chip
Our Red Bean Choc Chip is a playful yet thoughtful take on the classic red bean ice cream and shines a light on the unique complexity and depth of this beloved flavor. Sweet red bean has a nutty and earthy taste with ever so subtle chocolatey notes. In this pint, you'll find smooth red bean ice cream with crunchy cocoa nibs and hints of warm cinnamon and chocolate throughout.
Pandan with Palm Sugar Coconut Crunch
We love Southeast Asian pandan-scented sweet treats. Our favorite is sweet pandan rice balls coated in shredded coconut and filled with palm sugar. Reimagined in ice cream form, our Pandan Ice Cream with Palm Sugar Coconut Crunch is caramelized palm sugar shards coated in toasted coconut flakes and swirled into our tropical green pandan ice cream.
Thai Iced Tea
Bold black assam tea with our wondrous in-house blend of warm spices: cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, tamarind, vanilla, ginger, cloves and molasses.
Taro
Inspiration: Taro Boba Milk Tea
A violet-grey ice cream made with taro, an Asian root veggie that’s slightly sweet and nutty in flavor. Similar to ube/purple yam, but with floral vanilla notes and a delightful nuttiness that is reminiscent of cookies and cream.
Toasted Rice
Rice treats and ice cream are a childhood favorite. This recipe blends in sweet cream and captures the comforting aroma of toasting rice in a pan. It tastes like a better vanilla. It tastes like rice pudding and waffle cones had a baby. Spun into ice cream, it’s an instant childhood throwback with new flair.
Inspiration: Noo-roong-ji (누룽지)
Noo-roong-ji is a traditional Korean rice snack. The caramelized layer of crunchy rice that forms on the bottom of a pan of cooked rice.
Matcha Green Tea
We use organic matcha (stone-ground green tea leaves) from the Uji region of Japan to make our Green Tea ice cream. Blended into our sweet cream, this flavor is earthy, lush and freshly-packed with powerful antioxidants*.
Inspiration: 녹차 — nokcha
Nokcha is the Korean word for green tea. In Asian culture, the tea has many applications that go beyond tea drinking and ice cream. With its powerful antioxidants, green tea is a special ingredient that is very much a way of life. Reach for the good vibes!
*One serving size of our Green Tea contains 62 mg of caffeine.
Black Sesame
As Noona’s favorite, we had to make this Asian classic that much better. Nutty, bitter with slight undertones of chocolate, we use organic black sesame seeds that are roasted and stone ground into a paste and blend fully into sweet cream. Whole seeds are folded in to bring out the unique complexity of this beloved flavor.
INSPIRATION: 흑임자 — Classic Black Sesame
Turmeric Honeycomb “Little Miss Sunshine”
Sunshine in a cup? Our Little Miss Sunshine is all you need. Delight in handfuls of organic turmeric, sweet cream and gooey ribbons of old-fashioned Korean honeycomb candy that we make in-house.
Inspiration: 뽑기 — Ppopgi aka Dalgona (달고나)
Ppopgi aka dalgona is an old-fashioned Korean honey candy and popular throwback street treat. Our ppopgi is similar to American honeycomb but a little bit denser, a little less sweet and slightly darker in color. The bright and earthy notes of turmeric balance the sweetness of honeycomb and create this flavor’s beautiful sunshine yellow hue. It’s an instant favorite sure to make you smile.
Yuzu Blossom
Tart and aromatic, yuzu is an Asian citrus fruit that closely resembles that of a grapefruit and mandarin orange with undertones of meyer lemon. Our Yuzu Blossom ice cream blends the familiar sweetness of this beloved fruit with fresh cream and a touch of wildflower honey.
Inspiration: 유자 — Yuja
Yuzu, also known as yuja in Korean, is an Asian citrus fruit. Yuja marmalade on toast, yuja tea and orange cream pops are a few things that bring us absolute joy. In ice cream form, yuja and cream are meant to be.
Makgeolli Blues
Inspiration: 막걸리 — Makgeolli
Makgeolli is an unfiltered rice alcohol/brew and Korea's oldest liquor. It has long been considered the “poor people’s drink” but has recently regained popularity. Made from nothing more than fermented rice, yeast, and water, makgeolli typically contains 6 to 8 percent alcohol and is a beautiful cloud of sweet milky deliciousness. Slightly fizzy from the fermentation process, its flavor profile consists of layered grain flavors that are heart-warming.
Our Makgeolli Blues ice cream is made in collaboration with Hana Makgeolli, a fellow Korean-American woman-owned business that we love. A little boozy and reminiscent of white rabbit candy, a nostalgic Chinese creamy white milk candy. It’s a special treat, for sure.
What makes this flavor blue in color? While stuck at home during the pandemic, we began feeling blue and missed being outside with friends under blue skies. we’re missing outdoor activities even more. We thought it would be nice to make a new flavor that reminded us of blue skies and carefree days, so we blended a little pinch of blue butterfly pea flower to our makgeolli ice cream.
What is blue butterfly pea flower? Butterfly pea powder is derived from the butterfly pea plant, a vining flower that has crept along trellises and up the sides of buildings across Thailand and Burma for centuries.
*Each pint contains 0.5% alcohol.
Vegan Rose Ginger
Light, floral rose notes with a refreshing little zing. Like velvet snow, it’s absolutely divine.
Inspiration: 수정과 — Sujeonggwa
Sujeonggwa is a traditional dessert tea made with fresh ginger root, spices and dried fruit. Cinnamon sticks, persimmon and pears are commonly used. With this tea in mind, we created an ice cream flavor packed with fresh ginger and spices and thought a floral note would leave a delicate touch.
Vegan Matcha Green Tea
We use organic matcha (stone-ground green tea leaves) sourced from the Uji region of Japan to make our vegan Matcha Green Tea. The earthy bittersweet notes of matcha and the tropical sweet taste of coconuts make this pairing an absolute delight.
Vegan Black Sesame
As Noona’s favorite, we had to make this Asian classic for our dairy-free friends. Nutty, bitter with slight undertones of chocolate, we use organic black sesame seeds that are roasted and stone ground into a paste and fully blended into our fresh coconut cream.
Dalgona Coffee
Who else has made Korean dalgona coffee aka 400 whipped coffee? It involves only 4 ingredients (2 tbsp instant coffee, 2 tbsp hot water and 2 tbsp sugar) whisked together. Once frothy and creamy, your mixture is then added to your choice of cold or hot milk.
Fun fact: dalgona (달고나) is another name for Ppopgi (뽑기), an old fashioned Korean honey candy. We’ve been making our own since the start for our Turmeric Honeycomb flavor. We also save the honeycomb dust and crumbles that remain after chopping all of it.
In the past, we’ve used it for personal baking projects (such as making caramel sauce and dusting over cakes and ice cream). Now we’re using it for our newest noona flavor: Dalgona Coffee ice cream! 😋 Cinnamon ice cream layers on dalgona coffee layers and ppopgi dust layered throughout.
Toasty Mochi
Think S’mores and powdered white doughnuts. We all love them! Now imagine pillowy mochi rolled in delicious sweet powder. Inspired by Injeolmi, one of our favorite rice cake desserts, our Toasty mochi ice cream is made with mochi bits layered throughout our injeolmi ice cream.
Inspiration: Injeolmi 인절미
Injeolmi is a beloved Korean-style mochi rice cake and covered in a caramel-hued powder to add a nutty flavor and layers of sweet umami.
NOONA’S ICE CREAM FLAVOR ARCHIVE
Golden Sesame (Discontinued as of Jan 2022)
Taste with an open mind. Imagine nutty white sesame seeds are toasted until they’re golden brown and folded into a sesame-infused sweet cream. Deep yet bright in flavor, our Golden Sesame is the perfect balance of savory and sweet.
Inspiration: 볶은깨 — Bokkeun-Kkae
The perfect balance of savory and sweet, sesame is truly one of the special ingredients that makes Korean food distinctly Korean. We love how it adds brightness, texture and depth to any dish.
Passionfruit Pavlova
Part of our Shine a Light ice cream initiative and made in collaboration with one of our favorite noonas, Chef Kristen Kish.
We have one word or you: pavlova, pavlova, pavlova! Now imagine it in ice cream form. Imagine cotton candy meets marshmallow meets mousse meets a beautifully textured white cloud. Then imagine that beautiful cloud meets a beautiful sun. Now imagine the two melding into one. What you get is our Passionfruit Pavlova ice cream!
10% of profits from this flavor will go to Marsha P. Johnson Institute.
Cherry Chocolate Chip
Part of our Shine a Light ice cream initiative and made in collaboration with WOC-owned cookie company, Partake. Fresh sweet cream that’s not too sweet and reminiscent of you favorite vanilla frosting with crumbly melt-in-your mouth triple chocolate cookie pieces and juicy sweet-tart cherries throughout. Not only does it have all the character of a classic chocolate-cherry cake but it’s 100% gluten-free.
Take part and support a cause that is near and dear to the Partake family. 10% of profits from this flavor will go to the resilient efforts of Food Equality Initiative to ensure food insecure families with food allergies have access to the food, education and advocacy they need and deserve.
Tamarind-OH!
Part of our Shine a Light ice cream initiative and made in collaboration with WOC-owned company, Essie Spice.
Get ready to fall in love. Tamarind is native to Africa but thrives in tropical climates and can now be found all across the globe in regions of South Asia, the Caribbean and Mexico. Its flavor is unique and surprising - in fact, you probably have tasted tamarind even if you didn’t realize it. It’s in so many foods we eat and beloved by our favorite chefs. Sweet, tart and zingy, the best comparison we can make for tamarind is imagining what a tropical date would taste like. Essie, founder of Essie Spice makes a mouth-watering tamarind paste and we love how she uses guava which mellows out the tartness of tamarind and how warm spices like ginger and vanilla bring out the actual flavor of tamarind and make it shine.
Get to know our TamarindOH! ice cream - a whiff of coconut, sumptuous tamarind ribboned through and through, like a tropical melody in your mouth.
10% of profits from this flavor will go to Navajo Water Project, an organization that brings hot and cold running water to homes without access to water or sewer lines.
Smokes (Lapsang Tea)
Honeydew Glow Sorbet
Bingsu Cherry Bombe**
Cinnamon Ginger Pear “Sweet as Bae”**
Cherry Spiced Tea
Sikhye (Korean Sweet Rice Punch)
Persimmon Jubilee**
Korean Mint**
**Seasonal or may come back in the future.