Must-Try Cold Treats: Heny Sison's Spanish Ice Cream + More
These heat beaters are fun, refreshing and packed with flavor.
(SPOT.ph) Just when you thought it was safe to go outdoors, the latest heat index report convinces you to just stay inside your air-conditioned cocoon. But if you're already out and about and need a cooling down, if only for a good few minutes, we have three delicious cold treats to recommend: a nostalgia-triggering shaved ice treat from a popular milk tea chain, a limited-edition ice cream with Spanish ingredients, and a refreshing tropical cooler with longan and lychee.
Ice scramble and other cold treats you ought to try now
The Ube Iskrambol at Tealive
Every iskrambol, or ice scramble, post online is almost always tinged with nostalgia, and we get it. It’s one of the early street foods we enjoyed as kids, these creamy, cooling treats on a plastic cup often pink in color, made of shaved ice, milk, and a party on top: marshmallows, milk powder, chocolate syrup, sometimes with two Stik-Os jutting out of the pink extravaganza. We used to get it just right outside our homes, peddled by a man pushing a cart. But these days, you can also get it from an air-conditioned store.
Tealive, the popular milk tea chain, just launched their Ube Iskrambol which puts a purply twist to the ice scramble of old with an ube base and ube jam thrown in. It's like a Filipino slushie, with the ube giving the icy treat a richer, creamier flavor and texture. It’s one of the Pinoy concoctions in Tealive’s Philippine menu (they also have Ube Halo-Halo, an Ube Milktea and an Ube Matcha) and it’s perfect for those days when you’re out in the sun and craving something cold and comforting. Use the tall straw to poke on the chocolate at the bottom and complete the fiesta of flavors on your tongue.
Tealive has over 1000 stores worldwide, over 50 stores in the Philippines, and was founded in Malaysia. No one knows exactly where the iskrambol came from but we know exactly where the Ube Iskrambol is going—in our mouths.
The price of a Tealive Ube Scramble is P150. Tealive has over 50 branches in the Philippines.
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Heny Sison’s Summer Ice Cream
Lodi pastry chef and now restaurateur Heny Sison just launched her own heat-beaters and she calls them Verano deo Helados (Verano is summer in Spanish, and Helados is ice cream—just ask Google Translate) which you can get in her beautiful, elegant, Eric Paras-decorated QC Spanish restaurant Deo Gracias. “I created four flavors such as Helados Queso Manchego, Helado de Azafran, Helado de Sherry, and Helado de Chocolate,” she tells SPOT.ph. “We had an event Verano Deo at Deo Gracias and it was a collaboration with Bares Y Estrellas, distributor of Tio Pepe here in the Philippines. During the event our Executive Chef, Alex del Hoyo Gomez, created pintxos and I created four helados that will make use of Spanish ingredients like saffron, Machego cheese, chocolate, and Sherry to beat the summer heat.”
A cup of the Helados Queso Manchego is P360, and a cone is P185. It’s available only to dine-in customers at Deo Gracias which is located at 11th Jamboree Street, Diliman, Quezon City.
Bambu’s Coconut Combo
Bambu Dessert Drinks prides itself on their use of coconut water and coconut milk which are full of nutrients, healthy fats and antioxidants that benefit your well-being. The drinks, of course, can be amazingly refreshing, too, and are packed with good flavor. So it’s not surprising we fell in love immediately with their Coconut Combo which mixes coconut water with green and white jello, coconut meat, lychee, and longan. It’s simple yet so good. The coconut they use is definitely fresh and the combination of textures makes drinking it fun. You can also pick your sweetness level—we suggest you choose 0 % so the sweetness comes only from the lychee and the longan. The ice is served separately when you order it for delivery, placed on a separate cup so it doesn’t melt easily. Just pour it over your drink when you’re ready to quench that thirst.
The Coconut Combo is at P195. Bambu Dessert Drinks are located in SM Mall Of Asia and in 180 A. Mabini Street, San Juan, and can be ordered for delivery via Grab.
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