Chocolate Madness at Swensen's

Swensen's is everywhere. I never fail to see a Swensen's restaurant whenever I visit a mall in Bangkok. This restaurant is more common than the stores of McDonalds. It seems like the Thais enjoy dining at Swensen's and it got me curious.

So, one hot day, after shopping for an anniversary gift for my Beloved at Jatujak Market, me and a friend went to a mall near Victory Monument to try Swensen's.

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Swensen's is an ice cream restaurant. I was glad that we visited this restaurant during that hot day. Ice cream is the best way to cool down and beat off the heat.

The ice cream shop has a wide selection of frozen treats. They have sundaes of different flavors. They have floats, yogurts and even green tea-flavored ice cream (which I think is enjoyed by tea-drinking Thais). What caught my attention are the chocolate-flavored ice cream.

There are many chocolate ice cream to choose from but what I ordered is the Chewy Choco Fudge (priced at 65 Baht).

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It is simply delicious. What I like about this ice cream is the chocolate. It has chocolate ice cream, chocolate cookies, chocolate wafer and even chocolate-dipped cherry on top. This is a perfect ice cream for chocolate addicts like me.

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Another shot of that chocolatey goodness.

I discovered that Swensen's is not exclusive in Thailand. There are Swensen's stores in the Philippines (hooray!) and they even have a Facebook page. I will surely visit Swensen's when I go back to the Philippines to try their other frozen treats.

Cold Delights from Gold Delight

Second Brother wanted to buy ice cream for the whole family one hot Sunday. Unfortunately, Second Brother is short on cash so he couldn’t buy the popular ice cream brands like Selecta and Magnolia. So he went to a branch of Ice Cream House and bought the ice creams of Gold Delight.

Second Brother bought corn-flavored ice cream:

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Coconut Biscotti:

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And Pastillas de Langka:

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Pastillas de Langka and Coconut Biscotti is under the brand Coconut Gelato but I think that this brand is also owned by the owner of the Gold Delight brand.

I don't know how much a  gallon of Gold Delight ice cream costs but I think that it is not expensive because my brother was able to buy a total of 1 gallon plus 2 liters of ice cream. 

The whole family enjoyed eating the ice cream of Gold Delight. I tried the corn-flavored ice cream first.

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Me scooping some corn-flavored ice cream.

Gold Delight's corn-flavored ice cream tastes good! The only problem is I became easily satiated by the flavor.

My favorite of the three flavors of ice cream is the Coconut Biscotti. I like it because of its flavor, which did not satiate me unlike the corn-flavored ice cream. Another thing that I like about it are the chunks of biscotti (biscuits) that gave the ice cream some crunchiness.

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The yummy coconut biscotti.

Gold Delight ice cream is not as expensive as leading ice cream brands but it doesn't mean that its flavor is so-so. Gold Delight matches the flavor and quality of the expensive ice cream. That's why I may buy Gold Delight ice cream if I want to bring home some cold treats in the future.