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| - First off, mad thanks to my friend Ali for telling me about this place only 2 weeks after its grand opening. I don't think I would have found this so quickly without her help.
Thai rolled ice cream is a new kind of dessert that has been slowly growing its presence in the United States. Known more commonly in Thailand as "stir fried ice cream," rolled ice cream involves taking ice cream and other ingredients, placing them on a -35 degrees Celsius grill, mixing the ingredients together, then flattening the mixture out before making cute little rolls out of the mixture. While rolled ice cream has been around in Thailand and Asia for many years, it only started picking up steam (or maybe ice in this case?) in late 2015. It's a trend that slowly grew in 2016, and finally a place has popped up in the Cleveland area.
This was my first time ever trying rolled ice cream, and I must say I was very impressed. I got the Green Giant - matcha ice cream mixed with strawberries, and for toppings I got strawberries, mangoes, blueberries, a roasted marshmallow, and a Pocky. The first bite was a little weird, but by the second bite I was hooked. Honestly, it was not my favorite flavor - the one I liked the most was definitely my friend's Morning Latte flavor.
The price is extremely reasonable - about $6 for an extremely sizeable portion of rolled ice cream with 3 toppings and a syrup on top.
Surprisingly, for only being its second week since opening, the lines were incredibly long - I came here at 6:30 PM on a Thursday night and I still had to wait a half hour to get my ice cream. The line was constantly growing, but people were willing to wait to have their ice cream served to them. The wait is well worth it - this is some amazing ice cream. It would have been nice if they sold some beverages to drink as ice cream can make me a little bit thirsty, but that is a very minor issue on Cleveland's first edition of a rising food trend in the US.
Anyone who has never had Thai rolled ice cream and lives in the northeast Ohio area MUST come to this place to try it at least once. It is a very unique experience, and one that is currently hard to find elsewhere in Cleveland, let alone the state of Ohio.
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