Chainlink Korea: Baskin Robbins

Western chains that have been planted and even grown roots in Korea have the power to take you home for half a minute, or they can leave you feeling like you're in some sort of weird Korea/Western mind-warp where nothing quite fits. They're like if you put on someone else's shoes, even if they look just like your pair they're worn in different places and feel a bit different.

In honor of the wonderfully weird, and the strange familiarity I'm going to do a series of posts about chains from home who, like me, have found a weird home in Korea.

Unless this is your first time reading my blog, (if so then "HI!" and welcome to my crazy mental conga line) you are probably well aware of my love of/obsession with cake.  But really who doesn't love cake?  And especially people of my generation- who doesn't love ice cream cake? So off to Baskin Robbins it is.


Now Korea loves a pretty cake and ice cream cakes are no exception.




Although there is a big difference between Korean and American ice cream cakes- in Korea- it's just ice cream.  No crunchy bits, no cake, just ice cream,


... and dinosaurs.



....a lot of dinosaurs.



 Seriously I don't know why out of the dozen cakes or a quarter of them are dinosaurs. I mean I totally dig dinosaurs, I'm a child of the 80's, dinosaurs are totally rad;

and Baskin Robbins is obviously a fan of "Land Before Time" and Little Foot as well.

They also threw in some dragons for good measure.





You can get multiple flavors of ice cream to go with your marshmallow blobs,


they even a full on variety 'cake' with each slice, a different flavor.  I've actually had part of the variety cake and it was yummy, as ice cream is and should be.


If you don't get a variety option by the slice, you can get a mix of ice cream throughout the cake itself- it's even illustrated on the card so you know what you're getting before you buy it. According to the sign these cake flavors are (from top to bottom) green tea, cherries jubilee, very very strawberry, chocolate, and something called Almond Bong Bong.




Either way the cakes are very pretty,


and sometimes weirdly abstract.


But they come from a land where all animals love ice cream and marshmallows, and that's not a bad place to be.

Overall the Korean Baskin Robbins cake I've had tastes just like their ice cream, which is good, but I do miss the crunchy bits I grew up with.  But they do give you dry ice when you buy a cake which is fun to play with so that's definitely a plus. 


From the Baskin Robbins Freezer Case with Love,






Jenna


From Roam with Love
FromRoamWithLove.com