what is better — and more efficient — than ice cream after lunch? i think you will agree that the answer is, “ice cream for lunch”.
when i met ana at passionflower at lunchtime, as planned, it transpired that she, feeling peckish a little earlier, had already eaten a crepe uptown. huh. it only briefly crossed my mind that i should maybe order something savoury and nutritious before having ice cream for dessert, but then i came to my senses: anything other than ice cream would take up too much ice cream space in my stomach.
the passionflower menu is the kind with pictures in it, which may or may not make things harder. when the waitress came ’round the third time to take our orders, i asked for the black and white seduction, but by the time anna had made her choice, i had already changed my mind. an eastern banana split, please!
see? it is a scoop of maccha ice cream, a scoop of taro ice cream, a scoop of sticky rice ice cream, a banana, lychee-orange compote and a waffle bowl. so that’s what a $12.50 dish of ice cream looks like.
passionflower went through a stage where it was like something had gone wrong in their freezer and made the ice cream less creamy and more icy, but now everything is well and good. they also have a flavour which wasn’t there the last time i visited — a while ago — lychee and rose petal. it is pink and creamy with bits of actual lychee mixed through. you can see a scoop of it there, across the table, in front of ana. it was yummy, and made me smile.
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get. out. sticky rice ice cream?! how is the texture? does it taste like rice pudding? where is this? can you meet me there in an hour, um, after the next flight to sydney from here?
oh it is very creamy and not lumpy like rice pudding, and has that slight chalky taste of ground rice, and then studded through it are chewy grains of actual rice! oh yes! i likes it! handily, passionflower is located on the very edge of chinatown so you are just a stroll away from buns! or roast duck noodles! or a pie shop where you can get a meat pie topped with a scoop of mashed potato, a scoop of mushy peas and a scoop of gravy.
see you soon!
I won’t ask how it tastes, because I know! So yum huh? What I will ask is; did you start with the fruit and then the black sesame? I am always so cautious about one ball rolling onto the table, and so quick that it might plop of the floor.
On Saturday night I had something called chocolate ecstacy icecream. It was very good.
a meat pie a la mode?! i have to see this.
saffron: there were no embarrassing or tragic rolling moments, because i like my ice cream a little melty, so i waited a couple of minutes for it to soften into itself before attacking, and ate a bit of everything as i went.
i actually didn’t get the black sesame this time but perhaps if i get the black seduction next time (black sesame ice cream and coconut icecream, black grass jelly and evaporated milk — sounds like a winning combination.), i will be so lucky.
santos: one of these days, perhaps in winter, i may have to revisit the pie shop to document this exotic beastie.
Looks yummy!! I havent been to passionflower for ages, probably since the last time when they stuffed up for a while. So it’s all good now, eh? I love their black sesame
ah! so it wasn’t just me that thought their quality had declined. yes, the absence of icy shards through the ice cream makes that $4 scoop much more easy to swallow, so to speak.
and so many supporters of the black sesame! next time i will have to have to black seduction.