Saturday, August 2, 2008

Tom's Palette

Tom's Palette at Shaw Leisure Gallery was one of the few boutique ice-cream parlours i wish to visit. Today's my first visit to them with Mom & Ric.

And we were overwhelmed by their warm service here. Despite their modest setup, we were encouraged to taste their ice-cream before we decide on the flavors to buy. One, two, three flavors we tasted and Tom do not mind :)

At the smallest order of the $2.50 cupful, we were allowed to have 2 flavours. Our 1st cup was of the Mango and Apple Pie ice-cream.

The Apple Pie was the outstanding one with textured of apple filling and shortbread crust, spiced with cinnamon. Following these we had the nutty Buttered Pecans and bitter Chocolate Stout; then a repeat order for the Apple Pie and Chocolate Stout that we had not enough of, Yummy.

With similar density and taste to Gelato, i'm surprised we were eating Ice-Cream.

And Tom had offered us a taste of the Lavender (It's flowery! You could imagine your breath overrunning with flowers as you speak!), Granny's Favourite (Ric's favourite), Rum & Raisins (Sensation of alcoholic burn as an aftertaste!), Pink Guava, Berries, Chocolate...

Tom was proud of introducing their pain-stakingly produced ice-cream and I'm eating more ice-cream than i had intended to have today :) bloated.

And Mom's eye brighten as Tom rattled off flavors of ice-cream they were going to have for the coming days, namely, Lemon grass, Wasabi Lime, Coconut... a housewife's kitchen fantasy :)

Brimming over with creativity juices, this ice-cream parlour makes you want to return for their daily surprises.

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