Somewhere in in my teens I discovered that Ice Cream was indeed my soul food, something I would relish silently and connect with myself. During a recent trip to Malaysia, as I walked down the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Melaka and Penang, I enjoyed the delicious street side fare but what left a lasting impression was the innovative ways of preparing and presenting ice cream. 
After a hearty meal, I was walking down Jalan Alor near Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur, yearning for some ice cream. That’s when I noticed the street vendor bent over a pan churning out some rolls. I moved to his side only to realise that he was churning out ice cream rolls with amazing dexterity from a pan which was cooled at nearly -35 degrees. These ice cream rolls or stir fried ice cream which originated in Thailand are now amazingly popular across the world. I ordered for a mango ice cream with vanilla base and observed him preparing my delicious stir fried ice cream or Thai Rolled Icecream.
He added some vanilla milk on the pan and a few bits of mango. It was mashed into a pulp over the next minute with 2 steel spatulas and spread out on the teppan in a squarish manner.
Within a few seconds, he began to roll it and it was served in a cup, garnished with coarsely ground peanuts.
It was a melt in the mouth delight, smooth, sweet as if I was relishing creamed mango!! Give me one everyday, and I will be a happy soul. 
The fried ice cream is a wonderful presentation of the hot and cold. While there are different theories about its origin, I am inclined to believe that it was Japan where it would have first made an appearance since there is a culture of combining hot and cold food – Hot Miso Soup with cold Soba Noodles!! 
A small block of ice cream frozen at temperature much below normal is dipped in batter (flour, egg, a little bit of sweetener) or rolled in egg and flour and deep fried for a few seconds in extremely hot oil. The external crunch coats the ice cream which retains its temperature !!
In some cases, it is re frozen and then served later. I had the strawberry flavored one in a homely restaurant in Penang and just loved it !! Infact, I took a bite and the picture was an afterthought 🙂 Yummm and then for the next few minutes, just licked the ice cream, relishing the batter coated cream and I will surely go back for more.
These are priced between 5RM to 8RM depending on the type of ice creams, flavours, toppings etc!!
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And it happened to be my Mother’s day tip to my Mom …
How nice….
Wow! Amazing and droolsome too!!
Thank You so much. Wish they are available in India soon
Look at that. It not only looks interesting but also very delicious. And you pictures give us the whole story of how it is made. Thank you, Sangeeta. 🙂
Great to hear from you after a long time. Malaysia was an eye opener with respect to food and how aligned to our kind of cooking
I have heard a lot about these ice cream rolls, hope to try it soon. You captured the “rolls” making process so well 🙂 Drool worthy post !!
Thank You !! Must try stuff 🙂
Looks so yummy! And this looks authentic to Malaysia also! 🙂
🙂 Originated in Thailand, adopted widely in Malaysia
Oh, I see! This is interesting, I would love to try it! 🙂
looks so nice. I am sure these stir fried Icecream rolls would taste great
They are absolutely awesome !!
I’d never seen ice cream rolls earlier, such a cool concept! Thabks for all the details, including how it’s prepared. Gosh, your post makes me crave an ice cream so bad 🙂
Ha Ha…I wrote the post since I was craving
That looks amazing!!
Thank You !!
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