Eats @ Coldstone Ice Creamery

I've always wondered how stand-alone dessert stores/ restaurants in Hong Kong, Japan and China surpassed the test of time in spite of the expensive rental, the food trend and the differentiating global economic status. They offer a variety of snacks and after meal happiness. The dessert trend in the Philippines started with the ever-famous halo-halo (Anthony Bourdain even liked it when he tried it), sorbetes (ice cream), leche flan, mais con yelo, buko pandan, yogurt, pudding and of course, ice cream. Gelato, sorbet or ice cream, they all trap one's sweet tooth everytime.

While the general public shares the likeness for SORBETES, artisan and gourmet ice creams have also captured the hearts of many ice cream lovers within the metro. One international brand IN FOCUS has hit the Philippines recently. This is COLDSTONE CREAMERY Co..  This one's a teppanyaki-style ice cream.

I first tasted it in Shanghai, China during one of our trips back in 2010, and I tell you, it was love at first sight.

This is their

"When we serve up ice cream, we’re not just scooping it out of some frozen vat and handing it to you - we’re crafting personalized works of art!

First, we make your ice cream fresh inside the store every day. Then we take your favorite ice cream flavor, add your choice of mix-ins, and finally we chop and fold it all together using two spades on a frozen granite stone. These freshly-prepared masterpieces are called Creations — the most famous of which are called Signature Creations™."

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This is the common ice cream served in a cup here in the Philippines.

Apart from its overt sugar rushing and fat-creating benefits, did you know that ice cream can also be good for maintaining bone density and improving immunity from influenza? Surprised?  This is because ice cream is basically made from milk, cream and sugar. And milk is a great source of protein, lactoferrin and cytokines. That is why, when we had colds before, we were ASKED (with gleeful acceptance of course) to eat ice cream. One practical use of eating ice cream is to lessen oral pain right after a tooth extraction. That surely helps ease the pain and diverts the need to feel the pain.