Call it Pastry Chef Tosi's Changing of The Guar--err, Flavors: Momofuku Milk Bar's newest soft serve flavors are in, people!: horchata, watermelon, and sweet and salty cucumber. They also have their perennial cereal milk flavor (YUM. By the way, for those who don't know, horchata is a traditional Mexican rice milk made with milk, almonds, rice, cinnamon, and sugar. Some variations include lime, some vanilla extract.) I have to say, though: these flavors seem more like a nostalgia for summer: watermelon, cucumber? Not exactly fall flavors, but maybe this "rotation" is a short one, and they'll have flavors like cranberry sauce and butternut squash risotto in no time!
Your palate will never experience boredom once it's tantalized by the ever-rotating menu of oddball and crazy spot-on soft serve flavors at the Milk Bar.
I had the sweet and salty cucumber: It's CRAZY good. It's also CRAZY how true-to-life this soft serve is to the real thing. Well, the salty at least. It wasn't really sweet. I'm guessing they added the "sweet" in the title for two reasons: 1) as a nod to the sugar added since it is, in fact, a dessert; 2) perhaps to entice more people -- maybe they don't want to scare people off with salty cucumber froyo? Wait, who am I kidding? They've soft served up flavors like rosemary, root beer, and lucky charms to many a sugar-happy customer. I don't think they're short of Momofans.
Coming back to the cucumber: it really, honestly, and truly tastes like a cucumber with a couple shakes of salt on top (a very common snack of mine!). It's as if they pureed a cucumber and salt and popped it in the freezer for a few hours.
And this is why I love MMB: it continuously creates wacky and unpredictable tastes for its desserts from, seemingly, the most unlikely places. But you'll soon find out that they are the MOST likely sources to tempt your sweet taste buds. This place continues to surprise me and my taste buds and that's why I keep coming back.
TRY IT.
Be happy and Carpe Diem!
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