You can find mochi ice cream at Japanese restaurants and in the frozen dessert aisle of most grocery stores, often in a range of flavors like strawberry, green tea, chocolate, mango and vanilla.

Popular flavors include mango and peach ... though similar convenience ice cream is common in many Asian countries. Japan, for example, is known for mochi, where the cold dessert is wrapped ...

In the last year, a Chinese ice cream treat shaped like a very realistic-looking mango has become immensely popular, spurring thousands of videos and reviews on various social media sites.