Sweety Ice Cream Asian with a California Twist

Biting into a Sweety Ice Cream mango mochi, one can taste the sweet, soft and chewy rice dough covering the creamy orange colored ice cream.

Sweety makes a traditional Japanese treat with a California twist. The deep flavored ice cream is made with California milk, and the outside rice dough is made from GMO-free, sweet rice that grows at the oldest rice farm in the Golden State.

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Each flavorful Sweety mochi ice cream is an edible adventure in a kaleidoscope of appealing colors. Taste the sweetness of a juicy just-picked summer strawberry when biting into a Simply Strawberry mochi. The Vietnamese Coffee mochi tastes just like sipping a Vietnamese iced coffee. One notices warm bourbon and vanilla bean notes when biting into a Madagascar Vanilla mochi, and the Azuki Red Bean provides the same sweetness as a red bean bao bun.

Sweety Simply Strawberry Ice Cream

The Sweety story started in the 1980s, when the Lee family opened a mom-and-pop shaved ice and ice cream shop in Monterey Park, California. They noticed a need in the community for traditional Asian ice cream flavors, such as red bean, matcha, purple taro ube, and durian.

Sweety Abe Mochi – Photo by Jill Weinlein

Since mochi ice cream is a family favorite, family members Tiffany, Sean and Stacey took over the company when the elders retired. They tested and tweaked many recipes to achieve the perfect sweet rice flour dough to cover their creamy and flavorful ice cream mochi.

Aunties, uncles, and cousins helped during the weekends to make and box Sweety Ice Cream so it could be sold in the freezer section of supermarkets across the country. Now Vons, Jons, Walmart Superstore, Lassen’s Natural Foods & Vitamins, Pavilions and others carry Sweety Ice Cream.

Sweety Ice Cream

With 8 different delicious flavors, Sweety Ice Cream mochi offers an ideal portion size treat for those who want to watch their calorie intake. Three satisfying bites are around 100 calories a serving. Mochi can also be stacked into an ice cream cone for a larger dessert to serve by the pool and at family celebratory gatherings.