Snow Ice (雪冰) from Taiwan

This is something called snow ice (雪冰). Straight out of a shop in one of the night markets in Taiwan.

You know how most ice desserts are with the crunchy chips of ice ground up and flavored? This is on a completely different level. The ice is as fine as a fresh snowfall, light and fluffy to the extreme. This one as you can see is loaded with strawberries and strawberry flavoring. The combination of instant-melting-in-your-mouth ice blended with sweet, delicious flavor makes a very happy me! Not to mention, the price is only a little over $1 USD for such a big heap of ice presented in a wonderfully large dessert dish. We shared this one between two people and still didn't finish the entire thing.

My winter break 2010 was spent mostly in Taiwan visiting my family for the first time in a long time. Winter in Taiwan was still chilly (and apparently, chillier than it has been in the past few years) but this delectable dish was great after running around catching the MRT and shopping in three different locations all in the span of a day. Shopping and food is my favorite combination of activities. More like food first, then shopping. In my book, being a food enthusiast > shopaholic.