RJIE 9: Shlix - Lime and Mango Gelati

This has the most unfortunately named ice cream shop I've ever heard. Why is that you say? I dunno maybe you be on the internet more, or maybe if you know what I'm talking about, you should be on the internet less? Shlix shlix shlix. 

Anyway, this is a little home made salad and wrap bar by day and a gelato bar by day and night. Its located in the Valley and prides itself on wholesome healthy, no preservative, no artificial ingredients, low fat, low air volume and fresh Dairy Farmers milk for all their ice cream. They have a suggestion box/page for any ideas for new flavours, they have some really interesting ones there and rotate quite frequently. Here is their website.

If you're a bit confused by the air volume thing, air is necessary for ice cream that doesn't resemble a rock, a lot of cheap ice creams churn air into their ice creams for added volume. Added air, also makes ice cream a lot fluffier, but lets not forget that ice cream is sold by VOLUME and not weight. As a result you can typically tell a high quality ice cream, the denser, creamier and thicker it is, the higher quality it is. For example, compare say a no name brand of vanilla ice cream in a 1L box compared to the same volume of an expensive brand like Movenpick, Haagen-Daaz or Ben and Jerry's. The expensive brand is in a much smaller box but contains the same volume of ice cream, typically a better flavour and a much higher price tag.

The day we went was after we went to Himalayan Cafe and we had a lime and mango gelati on a waffle cone. I always choose mango gelato, I think its the best flavour in the world and is hard to balance, since you don't want a sickly sweet mango flavour, you want a bit of acidity in there too. The colour was pale but it was exactly like I had bitten in a sweet/sour ripe bowen mango, delicious!

The lime was very much the same, white but you could smell zestiness straight away. I can't describe it, it tasted exactly like what you want lime ice cream to taste like, sweet, sour and tangy all at once. 

I highly recommend this shop and advise you to take advantage of their loyalty card system and try all the new flavours!