Scoops Ice Cream

Like any kid, I had a sweet love affair with ice cream.  It all started with my dad, whom would invite me over, at the ripe age of one, to join him with carton in hand.  I, of course, would quickly crawl my little self over there awaiting a massive spoon of chilly chocolate ice cream.   When I couldn’t eat anymore, I’d sit with a chocolate covered face, totally content… But really the flavors of my childhood only consisted of the typical chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, pistachio, etc.–nothing too exotic.  It wasn’t until I went on a family vacation to San Francisco and visited a little ice cream shop near my aunt’s house called Mitchell’s.  Hands down it totally changed my expectations with ice cream.  It wasn’t a fancy shop–just a little hole in the wall with a make-shift menu which listed out the most exotic ice creams I’d ever heard of.  My brother and I would always get the thai ice tea ice cream on a waffle cone.  We thought it was the most genius thing ever.

Every time we were about to visit San Fran, my brother and I would always look forward to Mitchell’s; sadly it closed down years ago and I thought that was my last taste of that type of ice cream, until…SCOOPS!!  Scoops has a pretty amazing reputation; people rave about it left and right, so when I finally ventured over there I was surprised about it’s humble dwellings and totally blown away with the variety of flavors, which change daily.  The flavors are overwhelming and it took me a solid 10 minutes to decide.  I finally chose two scoops per cup (pretty awesome!) of black sesame and rasberry white chocolate, and rose water vanilla with cardom and….(wait for it!!) coconut thai ice tea!  Yes, people, I was finally reunited with thai ice tea ice cream.  When I couldn’t eat anymore, I sat there with a bunch of orange ice cream covering my face, totally content…