{"id":2230,"date":"2018-03-27T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2018-03-27T00:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T04:09:40","slug":"hoji-soft-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/hoji-soft-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoji Soft Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting Oahu for a short weekend trip. We were fortunate with perfect, sunny weather during our stay. We ate many things, and one thing we really enjoyed was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanasgreentea.com\/en\/\">Nana&#8217;s Green Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hoji-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hoji-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hoji-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hoji-304x540.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hoji-624x1110.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/hoji.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nana&#8217;s Green Tea is in the back of a Japanese food court,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waikiki-yokocho.com\/\">Waikiki Yokocho<\/a>. Their menu is filled with drinks and desserts. The prices are not cheap at all, but the quality is decent. I&#8217;d recommend the soft serve or parfait desserts.<\/p>\n<p>We tried both matcha soft serve &amp; hoji soft serve. While everyone is familiar with Instagram-friendly matcha, we were introduced to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H%C5%8Djicha\">hoji<\/a> tea. Hoji is roasted tea that has a more subtle, darker flavor.<\/p>\n<p>I think hoji soft serve could make it big as an Asian dessert. As someone who follows food news, I&#8217;ve never come across any hojicha coverage, but matcha is covered all the time. Hoji isn&#8217;t as Instagram-friendly (perhaps swirl it with matcha), but the flavor sells itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting Oahu for a short weekend trip. We were fortunate with perfect, sunny weather during our stay. We ate many things, and one thing we really enjoyed was Nana&#8217;s Green Tea. Nana&#8217;s Green Tea is in the back of a Japanese food court,\u00a0Waikiki Yokocho. Their menu is filled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[1382,1377,1384,1378,1381,1379,1383,1368,1380],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-2","tag-greentea","tag-hoji","tag-icecream","tag-matcha","tag-nanas","tag-oahu","tag-softserve","tag-tea","tag-waikiki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}