Experience on the Go: Dirty Ice Cream – The Black Cone

WARNING: Walking on the streets with a black cone in your hand means you will be constantly stopped and asked where you had got it. Share it on Instagram and all your friends will ask you about it.

Oh, those hot Summer weekdays…you’d rather be well, anywhere else but at your workplace…When time passes slower than a slug…when the world seems as if it stopped moving. And all you want is to break from monotony and shake things up a little bit…just a little bit.

In this Summer sizzling a refreshing ice cream after work is equivalent to salvation. You can just grab a cone and eat it on the go.

If you, however, fancy for not just a refreshing ice cream but a refreshing experience on the go, Dirty Ice Cream would be a perfect choice. Dirty Ice Cream is street-style Filipino ice cream and “dirty” refers to the street vendors who make small batches of ice cream every day using steel drum, ice cream and salt, thus “dirty” means non-corporate rather than soiled.

The Black Cone

If you haven’t tasted black cone yet, this is the time. It’s not just pretty Insagramable, but scrumptious too. Dirty Ice Cream is a hidden gem in a narrow passage in China Town. They serve Filipino ice cream specialities and desserts. Don’t worry if you don’t have a clue about Filipino ice cream flavours, the staff is happy to guide you through.

Mamasons Ice Cream Parlor Interior London

 

What Makes it Black? How Does It Taste?

Black Buko – as they call black ice cream is coconut flavoured ice cream, served either in simple light-coloured cone or black cone. What makes the ice cream and the cone black, is activated charcoal they contain. (Don’t worry, charcoal won’t grit between your teeth.)

I bought a black cone just to try and I can say, I will definitely go back for another one. The ice cream has intense coconut flavour but not overwhelming and not too sweet. The only one thing is, it’s softer than other ice creams – as you can see it in the photo – so you better start to eat it quickly. The black cone was a bit crunchier to me than normal cones.

Black Cone London

 

People Stopped Me to Ask Where I Got My Black Ice Cream

After I got my cone, I went to the street to eat it, and it was funny how passers-by constantly came to me to ask where I had bought it, what flavour it had, how did the cone taste and so on.

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