Japan-influenced ice cream chef wants to put Hyattsville on the culinary map

Unlike the commonplace flavors of vanilla and chocolate and longstanding toppings like rainbow sprinkles, Snow Crane — a new ice cream shop set to open in the spring in Hyattsville, Maryland — plans to take your taste buds on a trip.

Founder Takeshi Nishikawa, who grew up in central Japan, concocts unique flavors using ingredients like kinako, or roasted soybean flour, and kuromitsu, a syrup made of unrefined black sugar.

One flavor he’ll be featuring is a Japanese Mont Blanc-inspired ice cream that is processed through a noodle press in the same way the French pastry is.

Nishikawa said each flavor tells a story, and the one he wants customers to understand when they try his ice cream is that the world

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