Watermelon dried fish sundae review
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Swensen’s Ice Cream has a salted watermelon flavor this summer.
The salted watermelon ice cream is superb. It pairs especially well with a scoop of coconut milk ice cream.1
As for the dried fish sundae, it sure looks good. Sticky rice, cubes of ice cream, balls of fresh watermelon, but the sugar + chili + dried fish topping wasn’t quite what I wanted. The chili overpowered both the fish and the watermelon. I would have liked less chili and more dried fish. Watermelon ice cream has a delicate flavor that I found overpowered by the chili.
There were definitely some flashbacks to to last summer’s mango and shrimp confection. I foresee a challenge in the test kitchen, however. Where does one go from here? What seasonal fruit and fish combo can be put together for next year?
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Not pictured, because the staff were so busy serving a packed ice cream parlor that they brought me this sundae but not the scoop of coconut milk ice cream that I so badly wanted to have in the top right of the photo. And to eat. I did eventually get it, but only after I’d eaten half the watermelon dried fish sundae. ↩︎