meei / Ice Cream

kohan hand makes all their ice creams (5-6 flavours in total, if my memory serves me correctly). their green tea was ohkay. a tad sweet for my liking, but i imagine a lot of people would like it this way.

quite decent - rich, although a little sweeter than i'd usually like my chocolate (this obviously chalks up to personal preference, though)

but when they say sticky rice, they really mean mochi skin. basically a japanese-styled mochi ice cream dessert. really good, especially as the thin-skinned mochi skin complemented the texture of the ice-cream impeccably, but i'm not sure we were overly impressed by this because it's probably not made in-house. which is a slight disappointment considering the restaurant's positioning.

great ice cream available in a solid range of classics and a great space. giapo's gelatos still trump, though (shrug).

misleading name, methinks. quite ordinary (shrugs). no pictures of their food, but i can tell you that while it is quite good, it certainly isn't worth the prices they charge.

don't bother with this either. two measly globules of mediocre dango and what tastes like commercial green tea ice cream.

figs poached in marsala on the left, and chocolate sorbet on the right. the fig one had a very distinct fig flavour - quite sweet, as most fig end-products tend to be. the chocolate sorbet, though, i thought was just nice. it's fascinating to watch as they replenish tubs of gelato from the little gelato churning factory they have running in the back of the store.

we loved this so much we ordered a second serve, and our suspicions were confirmed when they told us that a 10 minute wait would be necessary as they were making a new batch - it meant that they really did make their own mochi. it had an authentic stickiness in the texture, and actually carried a subtle rice flavour, as opposed to most other mochis that taste only like flour. the peanut-sugar blend was heavier and earthier than the commercial sugar often served.

s'okay. they usually pop up during the outdoor cinema screenings, such as the one today, says the girl manning the cart. can't complain at $3.

um. yeah.