Ice cream ($3.80 per scoop)!
Friday afternoon ice cream stop — $3.80 per scoop at a neighbourhood gelato spot. The post-brunch lockdown-era sweet stop.
Friday afternoon ice cream stop with BB — $3.80 per scoop at a neighbourhood gelato spot. The kind of cheap-and-cheerful afternoon dessert that doesn’t require a special occasion.
We ordered:
- Ice cream — $3.80 per scoop
The $3.80 per scoop pricing is the sweet spot for neighbourhood gelato in Singapore. Higher than supermarket tub pricing, cheaper than the artisan boutique shops, in line with most chain dessert spots.
The gelato itself was the test. At this price tier the quality usually leans the “good but not exceptional” range — proper dairy base, decent flavour density, but not the same depth as the $6-7 artisan single-batch versions.
We tried a couple of flavours between us — the usual rotation default of one chocolate-leaning scoop and one fruit-leaning scoop. Chocolate had real cocoa depth without going too sweet. The fruit scoop had a clean fruit-forward flavour, not over-saturated with sugar.
Texture was solid gelato consistency — denser than American-style ice cream, slower-melting, with that creamy mouthfeel that tells you the shop is doing the proper churn-and-fold technique rather than aerating it like commercial ice cream.
At $3.80 per scoop, this is the right pricing for an impulse afternoon stop. Neither budget enough to feel like you’re getting a deal, nor expensive enough to feel like a splurge.
We took our cups and walked back, eating them as we went. Friday afternoon ice cream eating-on-the-walk is one of the small pleasures that lockdown didn’t take away — even during circuit breaker, we did the same thing at home with supermarket pints.
Phase 2 reopening had restored the option of doing it at a proper gelato shop again.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable neighbourhood ice cream stop — would re-visit.
