Happy National Day with a watermelon lychee shaved ice ($6.50)!
SG55 National Day dessert — Taiwanese-style watermelon lychee shaved ice $6.50. Tropical fruit ice mound for the August 9 celebration.
National Day afternoon — watermelon lychee shaved ice at $6.50 at one of the Taiwanese-style dessert spots. SG55 celebration deserved a proper red-and-pink fruit dessert.
We ordered:
- Watermelon lychee shaved ice — $6.50
Taiwanese-style shaved ice is the format that pioneered the layered-fruit-and-ice mountain at dessert spots. Instead of the coarse ice flakes of the old-school Singapore ice kachang, the Taiwanese version uses ultra-thin shaved ice slabs that fall in delicate sheets. The texture is closer to snow than ice — fluffy, slowly melting, picking up flavour from whatever syrup or topping you put on it.
The watermelon-lychee combination was the festive seasonal choice. Watermelon chunks at the base, watermelon-juice-infused ice on top, lychee fruit pieces scattered through. The ice itself was tinted slightly pink from the watermelon juice mixing through during the shaving process. A drizzle of lychee syrup over the top.
The dessert eats the way a proper shaved ice should — you scoop down through the mountain with the spoon, picking up ice and fruit pieces together. The ice texture is the test — too coarse and it’s just crushed ice; too fine and it melts before you can eat it. This version hit the right snow-fluff territory.
Watermelon and lychee are both classic summer-tropical fruits, and the combination works because watermelon brings the volume and lychee brings the perfume. Each spoonful had both flavours layered together.
At $6.50 this is fair Taiwanese dessert-spot pricing — comparable to other tropical fruit shaved ice options at the same chains.
National Day dessert eaten at a small table in the afternoon. The day was warm, the dessert was cold, the fruit was sweet, and the spirit was Singaporean.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Solid SG55 fruit shaved ice — would re-visit.
