work in progress
*Sunday, July 08, 2007*
giap, kw, weiwei(kw's gf) and i went for dinner at ajisen at parkway yest. followed by Ice Cream Chef at Ocean Park,520 East Coast Road which was coincidently featured in Lifestyle in the papers today. It was disappointing. haha i heard about this place on the radio, that there was something special about they way they serve their ice cream. Rated 3stars in the papers, i would probably give it 2.
The place was tiny, ambience wasnt good for chilling out or for chatting and due to the limited number of seats we felt obliged to leave immediately after we finished our ice cream. They did try to create this illusion of larger space with a large mirror which all of us mistook for more seats further into the shop though. there was ONE table outside which could seat 4 people. and in the shop itself enough space to seat only about 14 people with 3larger tables and 1 smaller one. TINY! and our ice cream melted very quickly, i wonder whether it was due to the not so cold temperature in the place or because of the method they used to mix the ice cream.
i went in, felt damn lost as those people just stared at us and didnt offer us any help initially, afterwhich this lady kept asking giap whether she can help him. imagine "can i help you" x4 without any recommendations whatsoever. weird people. and the girl who was was right behind the freezer made me feel like a moron. the conversation went something like this.
Me: hi, i heard there was something special about the way you serve your ice cream or something, so whats the difference?(the blending of different flavours or mixers on this cold slab of metal/marble or something was supposed to be the selling point)
girl: *blank face. after a while she points to the slab at the side.
Me: er ok. do you guys have any specialty here?
girl: oh we dont have any specialty here.
Me: huh (was i speaking alien?!)
girl: you can try some of the flavours if you want.
etc etc..
i really felt like a moron. are you from Mars? coz i happen to be an Earthling. haha. dont be mistaken she was smiling and trying to be all nice and stuff, just that she couldnt really answer my questions.
i tried Peachy sorbet which was quite light and Mr Macadamia which was really good. weiwei tried ****(cant rem the name haha) which was a mix of green apple and cinnamon(reminds me of fisherman's friend). In the end i got Mr Macadamia with granola as a mixer. taste was very good! surprisingly, coz i was kinda turned off by the cramped up space and WOLS girls. weiwei had cappuccino with marshmallows. ice cream alone was good but the marshmallows stuck to each other and formed this huge sticky thing, not a good mixer. giap had chocolate with hershey's choco bits or something(boring). very sweet and rich but he likes it that way. i thought it was boring. haha..
basically it reminded me of island creamery with an ambience 10times lousier. haha but they had nutella and some other interesting flavours too. the mixing on the cold slab didnt amuse me. conclusion: disappointed!
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