Udders (ice cream) company is planning to franchise in other countries and develop flavours unique to those cultures. Udders specialises in alcohol-flavoured ice cream, a niche in the Singaporean ice cream industry, such as Amaretto and Rum Rum Raisin. It also sells non-alcohol based flavours, including strawberry, coffee, pistachio ice cream, and durian ice cream, the last of which has received favorable criticism from Singaporean actress Chermaine Ang. Mr Yim and his partner design their own ice-cream flavours and as of 2011, Udders has at least 30 different ice-cream flavours. In addition, it offers fried foods, in a bid to reach out to
Mochi ice cream by using a rice starch instead of sticky rice and a rice milk instead of real ice cream. Frances Hashimoto, the former president and CEO of Mikawaya, is credited as the inventor of mochi ice cream. Hashimoto's husband, Joel Friedman, conceived the idea of taking small orbs of ice cream and wrapping them in a Japanese traditional mochi rice cake. Frances Hashimoto expanded on her husband's idea, inventing the fusion dessert now popular in the United States and elsewhere. Hashimoto introduced seven flavors in the mochi product line. Mikawaya began production of mochi ice cream in the United States in