Mochi ice cream,wrapped by hand.Harvard Square.

Mochi ice cream is a Japanese dessert: a ball of ice cream wrapped in a thin layer of mochi, a soft and chewy rice dough. At Kyōyo Haus the mochi dough is made in our kitchen and every piece is wrapped by hand around the ice cream when you order it.

Kyōyo Haus is located at 36 JFK Street, Inside The Garage Mall, First Floor, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Monday through Thursday 1:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Friday and Saturday 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Sunday 12:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

Kyōyo Haus serves mochi ice cream, matcha soft serve, and lattes including matcha, hojicha, black sesame, pandan, and ube, plus cream-capped drinks like the Coco Matcha Cloud and the Shio Cold Brew. Seasonal yuzu refreshers and a rotating monthly flavor round it out.

The current featured flavor is Banana Milk ($7.50), available as mochi ice cream and soft serve. Three flavors never change (matcha, black sesame, and mango); the other three slots rotate, with a new flavor arriving about once a month. A previous drop, Peach Oolong, is still on the menu in one of the rotating slots.

Yes. Order directly through Chowbus for pickup or delivery. Kyōyo Haus is also on Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub.

The lineup holds six flavors. Three never change: matcha, black sesame, and mango. The other three rotate, with a new flavor arriving about once a month; right now the rotation is lychee, peach oolong, and banana milk. Every piece is wrapped by hand when you order it.

Yes. Kyōyo Haus serves Japanese-style soft serve (soft cream) in the same six-flavor lineup as the mochi ice cream: matcha, black sesame, and mango always, plus three rotating flavors. Most come with an included pipette pairing, and some with toppings like coconut jelly (nata de coco) or coarse sugar. Soft serve comes in three cups: Small $4.50, Medium $5.95, Large $6.95.

Kyōyo Haus makes mochi ice cream in Harvard Square, Cambridge, a few stops from downtown Boston on the MBTA Red Line. The dough is made in our kitchen and each piece is wrapped by hand when you order it.

The tea lattes are the vegan side of the menu: matcha, hojicha, black sesame, lychee matcha, and hojicha matcha are vegan ordered with oat milk and without the cold foam or soft serve add-ons. Pandan and ube are not, because the condensed milk is inside the concentrate and an oat milk swap does not remove it. The capped drinks (Coco Matcha Cloud, Coco Hojicha Cloud, Sesame Hojicha Latte, and Shio Cold Brew) are not vegan or dairy-free either, even with oat milk, because the cap is cream. The yuzu ades are vegetarian rather than vegan: both bases contain honey. The mochi is not vegan either, since the dough is made with milk.

We don't cook with peanuts or tree nuts in our shop. Our soft serve mix and flavour bases are made in a supplier's plant that also processes egg, wheat, peanut and tree nuts. We can't promise our treats are free of them, so ask us before you order if you have an allergy. The soft serve and the mochi contain milk and soy. Our recipes use no gluten-containing ingredients except the cream cap and cold foam, which contain barley malt, and the Banana Milk pipette, which contains a malt syrup; ask us. The cream cap is on the Coco Matcha Cloud, Coco Hojicha Cloud, Sesame Hojicha Latte, and Shio Cold Brew, and the cold foam comes as the Matcha Mochi Cold Foam and Mochi Cold Foam add-ons. The kitchen handles dairy, soy, sesame, coconut and oats.