China is not only the world’s largest ice cream market, but I have also reported on innovative ice cream from China in several posts. One post concentrated on savoury flavours, like chili ice cream. Another introduced funky ice cream, like one shaped as the tail of a fish (or perhaps a mermaid?).

Here are some of the latest inventions launched recently by the Lawson’s chain of convenience stores in China.

French fries ice cream, complete with tomato sauce (actually strawberry).

The same company has also launched an ice cream version of the hamburger.

Less funky, but surely the most ingenious is the peach shaped ice cream. It is almost a shame putting your teeth in it. An interesting detail: the Chinese name of this product is taoqi, literally: ‘peach spirit’. However, it is homophonous to taoqi with different characters, which means ‘naughty’.

Peter Peverelli is active in and with China since 1975 and regularly travels to the remotest corners of that vast nation. He is a co-author of a major book introducing the cultural drivers behind China’s economic success