I discovered a new gem of a place today called Island Creamery. It was as recommended by a friend who raved about its teh tarik ice-cream,and being adventurous, me and steph decided to go try it out. All we knew was it its opposite Adam road market, and after some walking, we found it at Serene Centre, a nondescript place that we would have overlooked had we not been looking for it. Its quite a small and desserted place, perfect for chilling out. And the ice-cream is great!!

The ice-creams are pretty no-frills as well, served in a plastic bowl, with your choice of Horlicks or Milo topping, or add an extra 50cents for toppings like nuts or chocolate rice etc. They had many interesting and unique flavours for the local tastebuds like Teh tarik, kopi-o, bandung, kahlua latte, horlicks, burnt caramel, pulau hitam, durian. We tried the teh tarik(of course), burnt caramel and kahlua latte. The teh tarik ice-cream tasted exactly like the real thing,but in ice-cream form, and packed quite a punch. It was creamy, but not overly sweet. Just perfect for a hot day. The burnt caramel one was quite a treat as I like caramel...I found it really yummy. I liked that their ice-cream portion was pretty generous, and at the price of $2.50 per scoop, or $4 for double scoop, it was really worth it. Ahh, what a treat, escaping from the stress of life and indulging in such great stuff, I savoured every mouthful of my ice-cream...delicious!!

We also did a little exploration of Serene centre and found this supermarket called Tierney's Gourmet,which you can guess from its name that it sells gourmet food. I was so excited when I saw it, and we just had to go in. They sold lots and lots of different sausages and the likes, and also meringues, chocolates, biscuits etc. They also had quite abit of baking stuff. I walked out of the place with only a packet of Nestle Hot cocoa mix- double chocolate meltdown. Even buying that was quite hard cos there were so many flavours to choose from, like milk choc, rich choc, s'mores, marshmellows, french vanilla and even Butterfinger hot cocoa. The double chocolate meltdown was pretty thick and chocolatey, but a bit too sweet, and I still think the hot cocoa mix from Swissmiss is still the best, especially the chocolate sensation flavour. But of course, nothing beats the old fashioned way of melting chocolate in hot millk to make hot chocolate. That brings to mind Suckao from Max brenner...mmm..now, thats an indulgence. My own version is to microwave milk and hershey's chocolate morsels together until the mixture is smooth. Thats a quick and simple chocolate fix...

What would I do without chocolate? Haha