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2008-11-26
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There was a time when Taro root took the ice cream market by storm...All of a sudden everywhere was packed with tubs of icecream in rainbow colours, with neon green being mint and purple being taro. There is not an ounce of the root vegetable's flavour nor the original colour in that icecream, but somehow we've grown used to the purpleness within it all being associated with the veg. Then all of a sudden it's green tea/ adzuki beans that took over the market by storm, and taro disappeared into a
This time one year ago our bus ride passed 禮記 and its "Taro Icecream: Favorite in HK and Macau" banner on the show window. We passed by it, and sworn that we would stopped by, and somehow never did. Now that we did stop by for a quick visit, we knew that we will be back the next time we're in Macau.
The wooden booths and ceiling fan reminded me of the soy-milk + dumplings joints in Hong Kong. Old school with painted sign on the wall. The menu was simple. Ice cream is served by the scoop ($6.50/ scoop). 3-Color icecream is not a Neapolitan, instead, it's 3 of your choice of flavours. For $18 dollars you get three flavours. In the long run you'll be able to save up quite a lot. Plus you will always have appetite for more than one scoop. It is ice cream, afterall...
We ordered the favorites: Coconut, Mango and Taro. Coconut is a generous scoop most resembled to a scoop of virgin snow -- soft and purely white as snow, with a smoothness and distinct coconut flavour to it. Mango ice cream is nothing like the store-bought ones. This one is more orange in colour and more vibrant in the taste. Using pureed mango in the mix made the ice cream more icy, but the flavour is more pronounced. Taro is surprisingly NOT purple in colour. It looked unappetizingly grey-ish and upon the first spoonful it didn't taste much like anything. But then a few seconds later I could taste the starchy root in the ice cream, and the flavour grew stronger as I swallowed it, with a strong Taro taste lingering in the mouth.
The Ice cream sandwich, too, came in three flavours: Coffee, Vanilla and signature Coconut ice cream. The vanilla is not as strong but the coffee is NOT the usual cloyingly sweet kind. It actually tasted like coffee, which can make great ice cream but often failed because there is too much sugar in it. The coconut is the same as the one served in scoops. The table next to us were two girls helping themselves with the "ice cream brick" ($22 for half a pound block). Looking at them forking into a divided block of ice cream and biting away with a grin that touched their own eyes, I realized that it's ice cream, regardless the flavour, that make us smile from within. The flavours are just icing on the cake. Often times, just a lick, or a nibble of ice cream with its crispy wafer cone will satisfy us to the fullest. When it comes to ice cream, I believe that it deserves the "I want it, and I want it now!" moments. (Now will you just throw that "delayed gratification" thing out the window?! You can always indulge yourself with a little more ice cream!)
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