Green tea flavoured desserts- like, try or dislike?

[Owlie]

Green tea ice cream is tasty. And I made green tea shortbread last weekend...I'm having a hard time saving them for when DBF gets here.
(I've never tried red bean desserts.)

I think a lot of it boils down to demographics--both ethnic and socioeconomic. I've never found green tea-flavored anything in Ohio outside of Japanese restaurants (I miss Pacific East and Tree Country!), or the 6-acre international foods store. It's harder to find that sort of thing, I think, in areas without substantial minority populations, or in non-affluent areas. I cannot find hot salsa here, and my local grocery store thinks that Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Indian food are all the same thing. (And most of that "Asian" section is made up of instant noodles.)

[OakLeaf]

Daifuku with green tea mochi. Even the nasty industrial packaged ones are delicious, but a couple of months ago I had a house made one at a fine Japanese restaurant, wrapped in a bamboo leaf and grilled. O. M. G. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

[Owlie]

Daifuku with green tea mochi. Even the nasty industrial packaged ones are delicious, but a couple of months ago I had a house made one at a fine Japanese restaurant, wrapped in a bamboo leaf and grilled. O. M. G. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Oh dear...
Now I want Japanese food. I don't think there is actually a Japanese restaurant in this area.

[pll]

I liked green tea ice cream. Green tea kit kat, on the other hand, was strange (got some in Tokyo). There is a picture here (bottom right):
http://operationsroom.wordpress.com/...nese-kit-kats/