Was at the market for dinner cum supper, that’s wat u call a dinner that’s eaten @ 10pm..anyway had fried rice n nearly da bao orh lua until i stood up and decided that yes, i was full! went downstairs n saw this ice-cream guy who was selling from the cart attached to his bike…the roti one with scoops of ice cream…damn shiok…

Was suddenly looking back @ my life, the instances which i remember for the ice creams in my life, and not surprisingly they were all cheapo ice creams..not swesens’ or haagen dazs…the 1st ice cream i remember isnt really an ice cream, it’s those 20cent ice stick..the one that comes in 2 short tubes joined to each other…filled with syrup water and frozen..got many colours, but seriously sometimes i couldnt taste the difference between the colours…red (cherry) sometimes tasted like yellow (lemon). I remember 3 ways of eating them…1st is u bite off the tip and suck directly from the top… 2nd u twist the joint there n break into 2 sticks..eat one after another…3rdly..break the 2 tubes and kongsi one with ur fren…talk abt giving presents..

There was also this red bean ice cream lolly made by either meadow gold or magnolia, sold for 30-40 cents…damn hard n blockish, but one bite and u noe they they never shortchange u…it’s super rich lah…another one was this Fruit Tree ice cream…came in a longish tube that looks like a wider version of a tooth paste tube n the top’s covered with a silver wrapping… got orange, soursop, and mango flavours..damn good…its more of juicy than creamy…think frozen fruit juice…

My 1st encounter with a proper ice cream man was when i was about 4-5 yrs old @ my godmother’s place in hillview..this man would come in his van to sell ice cream on alternate evenings..his kind of ice-cream i’ve never tried b4..looks homemade..scoop onto bread or into cones..he oso had those blocks of ice-cream..take knife n cut, put the slice between roti or wafers..my all time fav is the jagung (sweetcorn) with roti… n the scooped one..usually is a mixture of choc, sweetcorn and atap chee..that’s the only instance where i would eat atap chee..

Ice cream van oso brought another new product to me…potong ice cream! those days, they dun wrap the entire stick…just the top part with a thin layer of plastic…jagung, durian, ang tow, chendol, cempedak! what other flavours?

MTR is this food company in india that makes great ice cream…i tried their vanilla ice cream when i was in bangalore, it’s SUPER RICH..u noe..like eating condensed milk…then the hotel i stayed in had this mango melba thingy…absolutely to die for…june that time, mangos were in season..ultra sweet..so u have mangos and vanilla ice-cream trying to outdo each other with different kinds of sweetness… december when mangos are out of season and sour…the ice cream complements the sourness perfectly…and it costs about 2 sing dollar for that sundae…

have u had ur (cheapo) ice cream today?