Kakigori With Pumpkin Flavour Topping And Decorated As Halloween Pumpkin During Halloween Festival. Stock Image

Kakigori is a Japanese shaved ice dessert flavored with syrup and a sweetener, often condensed milk.Popular flavors include strawberry, cherry, lemon, green tea, grape, melon, `Blue Hawaii`, sweet plum, and colorless syrup.To sweeten kakigori, condensed or evaporated milk is often poured on top of it.The traditional way of making kakigori uses a hand cranked machine to spin a block of ice over an ice shaving blade but street vendors can still be seen hand-shaving ice blocks in the summer.Kakigori is one of the summer features in Japan.