Back in Dumaguete City, but before driving us back to Harold's, Mang Danny stopped by Panda Ice Cream Haus and told us to try their fried ice cream ... which Bee and I haven't tasted before.
I thought it was like the "hot" ice cream that was popular around Manila when I was a kid. It wasn't.
Although Panda's is the first place where I heard of and tasted it, fried ice cream is actually found in different parts of the world. Panda's serves the Asian variant, which is ice cream "wrapped in special dough" (most likely similar to batter used in tempura), and then deep fried fast.
You have to eat it before it totally melts inside the fried dough... otherwise it gets messy to eat. If you want to try it, lots of people recommend ordering the pandan flavor.
Although popular for the fried ice cream, Panda mainly sells the usual ice cream that you scoop onto a cone or cup. The available flavors incorporate fresh fruits grown in Negros Oriental and nearby provinces. Panda boasts that its ice cream has low fat and less sugar. The ice cream house also sells its own pastries and soya milk.
The Panda website: www.pandaicecream.net
Panda actually has its own jingle - cute.
Bee bought Mang Danny a fried ice cream before we left the ice cream house.
~*~*~On a separate note~*~*~
This sign made Bee chuckle ... simply because we've been into at least three cafes/restaurants in Dumaguete City this day and ALL of them have this sign at the counter.
Bee is inclined to think that there may be people in the city who tend to skip paying. Alternatively, I think that people there are used to having a waiter/waitress taking their orders and delivering their food to their table, and ofcourse the customer pays after eating ... in my version, the sign is a way of telling customers that the particular establishment employs "self-service", which includes ordering and paying first at the cashier.
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