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Pa-sickie!

Kai wants a popsickie
If I am ever committed to an asylum for depression or lunacy or both, please tell the doctors that this video, looped and projected onto a white wall, is crucial to my recovery.

Speaking of popsicles, L. and I have been eating our way through the ice cream freezer at our friendly neighbourhood Japanese grocery store. So far, we've had:

  1. Chocolate bars
  2. Milk tea bars
  3. Mikan (tangerine) bars with real fruit pulp
  4. Peach soda bars
  5. Calpis bars
Yesterday, we got some shaved ice bars which surprisingly lived up to the picture on the box. Within the lemon flavoured ice layer was a creamy vanilla center and... crunchy shaved ice. I initially thought we had bought a batch with freezer burn before realizing that the Japanese manufacturer actually delivered on their promise to give us shaved ice in a bar. That is cutting edge popsicle technology there, my friends!
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Gorge, guzzle, guzzle, gorge.

You know what I'm going to do while I'm here in Northern California? Eat ice cream. A LOT of ice cream. Family-owned or independent ice cream shops hawking delicious cold desserts in a gajillion flavours like fig, orange flower and roasted sparrow (just kidding!) abound in the region. There are so many choices I can't even get excited about the Ben & Jerry's/Haagen Dazs 2-for-$5 deals in supermarkets here.

Last Wednesday, I had a Gianduia gelato (nutella-ish in taste, behind the lighter-hued hazelnut in the picture) at Michael's when we stopped by Palo Alto:

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I got a small but densely packed cup dished out by whom I suspect to be the store's Croatian owner. His gentle smileyness discomfited me slightly -- I am still not used to friendly, attentive service. When we were I was finishing our ice creams at one of the store's brightly coloured mosaic tables, we were joined by an adorable 13-month old human with a mango gelato moustache, who seemed to prefer our company to that of his tribal elders.  He's no golden retriever puppy, but I can settle for a cute toddler with good taste in dessert.

This past Sunday, we battled a barbarian horde at Yogurt Park in Berkeley for what is supposed to be the city's best frozen yoghurt. Okay, we actually waited for the crowd to thin before getting in line. And fine, we didn't really know what the fuss was all about until we got past the door and saw a wall full of certificates and press accolades. I wasn't keen on getting into a long queue initially, but the cook favoured Yogurt Park because it seemed the most popular.  I'm glad we chose Yogurt Park in the end because it turned out to be a Bay Area institution.

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My question now is, is it too gluttonous to hit more than one ice cream store in a day? If not, we're looking at 4 trips and about 8 hours of driving in total as I simply must check out Ici and Sketch in Berkeley, Mitchell's (Avocado! Nangka! Thai tea!) and Joe's Ice Cream in SF before I return home.

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