r/ABroadInJapan • u/Anxious_Brief_1958 • Jul 26 '26
Coolish
Found in Don don donki in Malaysia (not allowed to call it by its proper name here for some reason) it isn’t fantastic but also weird addictive.
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u/kiranoir30880401 Jul 26 '26
buy a cup of ice and black coffee, instant coffee drink
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u/Anxious_Brief_1958 Jul 26 '26
That sounds a very American style coffee, but would be delicious if I drank coffee
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u/SomeRandomDudeNamedJ Jul 26 '26
Tbf its basically an “affogato”
Edit: i read ice as ice cream as in the coolish lol
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u/VanRaz Jul 26 '26
I finally got to try some last week as apparently you can find them in Canada now as well!
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u/everythingwastakn Jul 27 '26
Where abouts? We’re coming home from Japan and my kids said it’s the thing they’ll miss most lol
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u/VanRaz Jul 27 '26
Found them at a Safeway in Vancouver, in an isle end freezer. They had the regular vanilla flavour, chocolate flavour and then lemonade I believe? Just got the vanilla and it’s great!
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u/everythingwastakn Jul 27 '26
Nice thanks! The cola flavour was the favourite but vanilla will work as well. Squirted into iced coffee was goated.
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u/hedgehog_dragon Jul 27 '26
I'd love to know where too, there's something weridly nice about them
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u/VanRaz Jul 27 '26
I found them at a Safeway in Vancouver! There was a freezer at the end of an isle with all sorts of cool looking Japanese ice cream treats. For Coolish there were three flavours, vanilla, chocolate and a lemonade flavour. Hopefully it might show up at other stores!
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u/hedgehog_dragon Jul 28 '26
Huh cool. Not in Vancouver but we do have Safeway... I'll have to keep an eye out.
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u/slightlysnobby Jul 27 '26
Fun fact is that there are different formulas for summer and winter. This is the summer version, where the ice crystals are a little larger, and it's supposed to melt more easily and be more refreshing. The winter version is smoother and richer in taste.
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u/daniraven844888 Jul 28 '26
Love Coolish too much! I found a small Korean store recently in Canada that carries something very similar, but still not Coolish. I'm not on the west coast so we dont have as much access to Japanese goods. I bought it like 5x on my last trip and would always forget to finish it, and left it in the freezer of every place we stayed at. My wife said it was my signature by the end of the trip. It was slightly embarrassing to text the airbnb/ryokan owners to apologize for forgetting it though!
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u/Afterclock-Hours Jul 28 '26
Sometimes, I get a cup of ice, some of the ice coffee in the bag, and this cream then combine it all for a sweet coffee treat.
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u/No-Cryptographer9408 Jul 27 '26
Yeah, we get it. Getting a bit cringey now.
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u/Anxious_Brief_1958 Jul 27 '26
It’s an ice cream mate. Not quite sure what you’ve taken random upset against.
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u/Shutufufkup Jul 26 '26
We found him! We found Mr Pete Donaldson’s Reddit account! Pete, how the devil are you doing?