Rugrats

This is another interesting attraction about Singapore.

And it's how there are quite a number of mobile ice-cream 'vehicles' that roam the streets. What I mean is that old men/sometimes women, ride motorcycles or bicycles travelling along side an ice-cream fridge. It's something like an ice-cream truck, except they don't have the tune of a jack-in-the-box 'timebomb' as they go around and they don't stop at the sight of a hungry customer. They'd usually move around and deploy at a site. One day they could be here, the next day they could be at another. Sometimes they'll enjoy the location and return every now and then.

What's interesting about these mobile ice-cream vehicles is that they sell reasonably cheap ice-cream at $1 for a block of ice-cream. I'd roughly estimate the size of a block of ice-cream at 5cm x 10cm x 15cm. I'm not entirely sure whether that measurement is accurate or not, but it's around there. I didn't even use a ruler to estimate that. LoL!

Anyway, every now and then, I'll get myself a piece. I actually had my first block since coming back when Joan was here. And ever since then, I've been having 'em.

The flavours they offer are not your ordinary flavours. I mean they have chocolate and chocolate chip cookies, but they also serve other flavours like Yam, Sweet Corn, Raspberry Risp (I think that's what it's called), Durian, Coffee, Red Bean, Chocolate Mint, and several others which I don't remember cause I don't order them. Usually I'd order Yam, Sweet Corn or Red Bean.

Then, after cutting up your block, they'll either serve it in between a 'ping kan', which means, 'crackers' or you can ask for bread. Both are equally good. As a matter of fact, you can do the bread one at home.

When I was a little kid, I'd usually take several servings of the bread-icecream combo. What I'd do is take a piece of bread and scoop heaps of sweet corn or whatever ice-cream flavours we had and eat it for snack. Generally, the ice-cream would tower the bread itself and would be difficult to 'close'. XD

It really is quite nice. If you haven't tried it, you should. Normally, I wouldn't eat bread with stuff in between (with a few exceptions), but with ice-cream, I really don't mind. Suffice to say, it's delicious.

The next blog entry will be considerably long. So I think I'll end this one here. The next post should be up in a few days time.