Yesterday night Elly gave me a big surprise.
She drew on our i-pad a cone of Neapolitan ice-cream (三色雪糕). Her choices of ice-cream were a little different from the traditional flavours of strawberry, vanilla and chocolate. She changed vanilla to lime. Her wafer-cone lined with squares was in the right colour. What she had added this time were the narrow crispy wafer-bars which possibly arouse more interest than just an ice-cream cone alone.
To us, it was a luxury in eating ice-cream in the early 60’s and 70’s. On Saturdays or Sundays, we often dug those 2-litre containers of Neopolitan ice-cream up from the freezers at Dairy Lane (former name of Wellcome Supermarket) at Kowloon Tong. We chose them because they came in three flavours.
It was at Manly, Sydney, in December 2006. As soon as we got off the ferry, we came across a store selling ice-cream at the pier. It was such a hot summer at that time in Australia that I thought it was a good idea to buy some ice-cream for everyone to eat. There my wife was fascinated by the taste of lime (in green colour) ice-cream which she still praises as first-class today.
Another surprise came in January 2007 when we were on board a Singapore Airline plane flying back to Hong Kong from Singapore. We never expected to be served with a cup of first-class ice-cream from the “H” brand. It was, in no doubt, a “bonus” after lunch. How “sweet” it was to see and taste it during the flight.
4 comments:
On the way back from a sweet trip with my sweet wife, it was a sweet surprise to be served with sweet ice-cream. Sweet Elly's drawing of a sweet ice-cream cone has brought back all these sweet memories. How sweet is that!
What flavour of ice-cream did you choose at Manly, Ho Keung?
It is a pity that Yin Ping had to go to work after lunch that day, so she could not taste the delicious ice-cream there.
Sorry, has no recollection of the flavour of ice-cream that Ho Keung chose, must be getting old.
Chocolate rules!
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