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Ice Land Vegas is the third ever of this subgenre of ice cream which I've tried, but it's the second chronologically of three local businesses to offer the lower-case rolled ice cream treat, a modern Thai street food dessert with entertainment value in the preparation. The upper case place was the "pioneer" for the Vegas scene, but its lower-case product lacked in both flavor and texture.
The location is in an otherwise nondescript gigantic plaza, at the northeast corner of Rampart and Charleston. I found it without much trouble due to the bright sign at night. After walking inside and noticing that the seating area was totally empty - an oddity for late nights at dessert shops, in my experience - I browsed the rolled ice cream menu on the blackboards located on the exterior wall.
There is only one portion size, a $5.99 cup. Unlimited toppings are available for a +$1 upgrade if you're into that sort of thing. Ultimately, I settled on a limited, premade combo off the "signature" menu, assuming that these should be reasonably good offerings and realizing that I generally take too long to decide, especially considering the variety of choices of base, mix-in, topping, and sauce. My choice was the Gold Digger, a Thai tea base with lychee mix-in, lychee topping, and condensed milk.
After I placed my order, an employee said that they'll make it for me to watch. He prepared the cream and grabbed the mix-in, and poured those onto one of the three super-cold surfaces which instantly started to freeze the foreign invaders. The employee quickly chopped up the mix-in, then started to mix everything and then flatten it out again to the final rectangular setup for rolling. Five scrapes later, and five spiral cylinders of dessert were ready for the toppings and sauce sauce in a rear station.
In terms of texture and thickness, the lower-case here did bear an uncanny, unsettling resemblance to the not-so-creamy, overly spoon-resistant product of the upper case competitor. It only really got soft enough just before it started to melt. However, I have to give props for the variety of flavors and add-ons, especially the real lychee fruit found doubly in my dessert. It will be familiar to anyone who has eaten either the fresh or the canned versions of it. That said, the Thai tea flavor does seem somewhat muted, which I'm guessing is a side-effect of the cream which they use in all of their bases. Still, it's more interesting than something mundane like vanilla or chocolate.
Ice Land does offer gelato and coffee too, which are seemingly holdovers from the old inhabitant of this space (named Vivido Gelato), but it seems unlikely that those particular offerings would be worth the visit. I do hope to return occasionally, but it's easier for me, a Henderson resident, to drive to another lower-case spot which I prefer overall. I very rarely find myself in this particular neighborhood for other reasons (read: restaurants), and that seems unlikely to change.
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