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    4.2 (353 reviews)
    Closed 12:00 pm - 10:00 PM

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    Hokkaido milk soft serve with dango and kinako
    Kelly H.

    So happy for stumbling upon this place! Now I can enjoy Hokkaido soft serve anytime without waiting until my next trip to Japan. The only downside is that the line is usually long, though it moves at a decent pace -- the longest we've waited was about 20 minutes. You basically just order through the window and there are a couple outdoor table/benches to sit on. I had the Hokkaido milk soft serve with dango and kinako, and it was incredibly creamy and delicious. Definitely worth stopping by if you're craving a sweet treat :)

    Swirl
    Debra W.

    I love ice cream. I love soft serve. I love creamy & cold treats. And this place deserves all the hype it gets. The soft serve is so creamy & delicious. The waffles cones are always fresh & I love the slight hint of sweetness. Who knew that milk from Japanese cows would make all the difference?! Toppings are delicious! The roasted soybean powder is the perfect addition. The MBR is my fave! Service at the walk up window is easy.

    Soft serve
    Samantha C.

    The first ice cream shop in America to make soft serve with milk from Hokkaido! We got the swirl with a waffle cone and added Shiratama Kuromitsu Kinako for the toppings! I think without the added toppings, the ice cream itself is a little bland. I had expectations it would taste like Cremia in Japan, but that's too high of an expectation. The waffle cone was really good though. It's pricey for what it is but worth trying!

    Line....
    Matthew Y.

    I waited 30 minutes in line for soft serve and would absolutely do it again. Indigo Cow is a tiny walk-up window on 45th, glowing with a neon blue cow sign, attached to Yoroshiku /secret fort. We went with the yaki imo brûlée: sweet potato soft serve with a caramelized sugar crust torched right on top. Warm and crunchy on top, cold and smooth underneath. It's a small menu and a two person operation, which explains the wait. The line doesn't lie. Go early, be patient, get the brûlée.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    Pira K.

    Saw indigo cow on tick tok and I had to try it out! They apparently get their milk shipped straight from Hokkaido which is pretty cool. It's an order window only so we had to stand in line for a bit. I got the seasonal yaki imo brûlée which was amazing. It was the Hokkaido vanilla soft serve with a layer of sweet potato, and then brulee'd like creme brûlée!! It was sooooo good. Staff was very friendly and worked so quickly! There was one person managing the whole stand!

    Madelynn F.

    I was looking for dessert after dinner and this came up in my search and had appetizing photographs. They have a Walk up window where you place your order. I got the Matcha in a charcoal waffle cone with MBR2 topping. The balls were awful. I didn't enjoy this place personally. The matcha ice cream and the charcoal cone was not too bad. They were making charcoal cones and only had one, so I got the charcoal and the other person in my party got a regular cone (and that was nasty and super hard. I tried it myself after they said there were going to throw theirs away, and confirmed it was. I Do not recommend you to get the regular cone. Just wait for the charcoal cones to be made)

    Hokkaido Milk and Melon Swirl
    Patrick S.

    Indigo Cow is a a little hole-in-the wall spot for Hokkaido milk ice cream! On two separate trips to Seattle, I somehow ended up at Indigo Cow because it was that good.! As mentioned previously, it is a small shop with pretty much just one person manning the machine and cashier! So it is quite easy to see why there would be a line that builds. But they literally just serve one product so the line does move fairly quickly. Customers will order and then there is some parklets for enjoying ice cream not too far from the shop. I would have to say that I enjoyed my first trip slightly more. I was with my family so was able to try a few varieties of their standard soft serve. The consensus was that the yaki-imo (baked sweet potato) was our favorite. There is the bruleee'd sweet potato with the cool creamy cream that was so velvety smooth! On the second trip, we got the melon and milk soft serve which was okay, but I think I would have preferred just the milk. The parking can be a little difficult in the area depending on the time of day, but able to find if you are willing to walk a little. Overall, Indigo Cow serves a cool treat worth the calories especially if you are able to get the yaki-imo!

    Hair at 9 o'clock
    Rina K.

    There's almost always a line but the line moves quickly and likely you'll get to the front within ten minutes or so. I've been here twice. The first time there was no other flavor other than milk (everything else had sold out) and the second time there was literally a hair in my ice cream. The workers do wear face masks but it seems like some workers have facial hair and this slipped past. A bummer for sure.

    Alex V.

    This was my first time trying Hokkaido ice cream! Unfortunately the only flavor they had was milk, as they ran out of their second flavor, pistachio. For a rainy cold Sunday I was surprised they were out of the second flavor. We paid extra for the sauce, seasoning (forgot what flavor but it tasted mildly like peanuts) and mochi. The mochi was flavorless. I think more flavors and toppings would be nice to see.

    hokkaido soft serve with mbr and hokkaido soft serve with strawberry
    Jada C.

    overall 7.5/10 went here yesterday night after seeing it all over tiktok and reels!! it was lowkey really rainy, and the line was pretty long. it's only one window, with one worker and one machine, so the wait could be longer than expected, so be prepared to wait. there's also only two flavors, the regular hokkaido milk, and the seasonal (in this case it was pistachio), so there was a pretty limited menu. there was also a special, the yaki imo brulee, and multiple toppings including fresh organic strawberry, dark chocolate, and mitarashi dango (mochi with soybean powder). again, it's a pretty small place, so theres no seating except for a couple covered outdoor tables. yaki imo brulee - 9/10 SO YUMMY, genuinely if you come here you have to get this. it's the hokkaido soft serve with sweet potato paste and a brulee-ed top. sweet potato perfectly complimented the soft serve, and it wasn't too sweet. genuinely i would come back just to get this one. only thing i would comment on was the service speed, as the line took a while, and we were standing in the rain for A LONG time. don't blame the employee though, as they were busting their butt, but it was just super busy and they could only make one at a time, while serving both the line and the restraurant its attached to hokkaido milk soft serve w/ mbr and strawberry (matarashi dango, brown sugar and roasted soybean powder) - 7/10, didn't really like the roasted soybean powder, mochi was pretty bland, the ice cream itself was super thick and creamy and i enjoyed the brown sugar! the strawberry was bussin hokkaido milk w/ mitarashi dango - 7.5/10, i like how it was thick and tasted natural (not artificial), the mochi was aight, wouldn't get it again. i also like the brown sugar syrup, would only go again if they had another seasonal flavor like the matcha one, i'm not super into pistachio. pricing was pretty good for the size hokkaido milk w/ strawberry - 6/10, lowkey just tasted like soft serve and really expensive. the strawberry was nice (kinda had a salty aftertaste but not really) just kinda tasted like a dairy queen soft serve

    Hokkaido milk soft serve w/ M.B.R.
    Vinh M.

    Last time I had here was back in 2022 when both Secret Congee and Drunken Chicken were still nearby in the Wallingford neighborhood where this location still stands. Now it's closer to both Yoroshiku and shares a spot with Secret Fort (whoops it's not secret anymore once I said that). There's not any kind of interior to sit inside per se, you just have a bunch of outside tables you could potentially sit at or you could just stand and eat your ice cream that way. I got their regular Hokkaido milk ice cream in a cup, and got their M.B.R as my topping, which consists of mochi, brown sugar syrup and roasted soy bean powder, all for $2 more. My grand total was close to $10 for a cup of really high quality ice cream with superb toppings. Consistency of the ice cream was heavenly and overall really silky. Taste was sweet but not overly, surprisingly. Mochi was nice and chewy, syrup added another tint of sweetness that blended with the ice cream, and the soy bean powder added another kind of sweet and nutty flavor that complemented everything. Lots of people lined up for this place, even going as far as waiting about 10+ minutes for the server to come back from his break; this was about the same amount of time it took for me to finish my ice cream because I wanted to savor every bite. This place has been around for quite a long while, so if you haven't already, do not pass up on this place for some superb soft serve!

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    Diana C.

    This was so tasty. Honestly it was cold and rainy and I still would have ordered ice cream. They have plenty of unique toppings and flavors. Of note, they don't have any dairy free or vegan options because it's all made with Hokkaido milk, but it was worth it for me. The service was very friendly and helpful with menu items and explanations. There's no indoor because it's a window you order from but there's some covered little booths you can sit at across the way if you want to eat there. Would def return for more despite the dairy lol.

    Strawberry
    Timothy H.

    Nice soft serve place to try! They specialize in Japanese soft serve, which tastes good! I had their Hokkaido soft serve with hard chocolate shell in a waffle cone. The soft serve was creamy, but wasn't as sweet as I'd like it to be. The hard chocolate shell went nicely with the soft serve. The waffle cone was good, but didn't taste that fresh. The service was okay. There was only one employee working and there was a long line. They should really have at least two workers on the weekends. The ambiance is okay. There's no indoor seating, but there were some outdoor seatings which were limited.

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    Date night treat. Great Hokkaido soft serve. Beautiful cones. Lovely experience on a sunny spring day in Seattle.

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