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The flavors rotate daily: oriental melon, fig, black sesame or strawberry tomato might be in the case on any given day. Each cup holds two flavors, and staff offer a small spoonful of a third to taste. Icheon rice ice cream keeps sweetness low with a grain-like, faintly vanilla note, while salted potato puts a salty edge on a starchy base. The texture is dense and smooth rather than stretchy like gelato. The shop sits down an alley in Yeomni-dong with room for only four or five people, and most customers take their cups away.