Ice cream Tempura - Deep-fried ice cream literally
It was Portuguese for Japanese people that the first contacted European in 1541. Soon after, Portuguese people introduced some European Cuisine to Japanese people. Fritter was one of those, and it changed to Japanese style fritter so called "Tempura" until 17th century.
Moreover, in 1556, a missionary from Portugal taught people in Hirado, Nagasaki, how to make Spanish confectionery. It was named "Castella" from the Kingdom of Castile.
Later in 1860, Fuchizo Machida, a member of shogunate mission to the United States ate ice cream in America, as the one of first Japanese who taste ice cream. 9 years later, he established the first Japanese capital ice cream shop in Yokohama.
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| Ice cream Tempura by Tsunahachi Tempura store chain (C)JAPAN a while ago |
And sometime in modern, "Tsunahachi" the second, the president of Tsunahachi tempura store established 1924, invented "Ice cream Tempura" for the purposes of getting interest by funny tempura. He was inspired from fried ice cream in1893 world's Columbian Exposition probably. Why is ice cream not melted by deep-frying in hot tempura oil? Because it is constituted ice cream as core of tempura, and courted Castella under the deep fry batter. So, air in Castella can keep cold ice cream by its thermal insulation about ten thousand times as strong as metal's.
Today, we can taste ice cream tempura, as the result of collaboration between Introduction of fritter and Western confectionery from Portugal, and ice cream including fried ice cream from the United States. Who is the next that introduce tasty food to this country and invent funny food?
