Lai Kei Sorvetes — Restaurant in São Lázaro

We have visited the famous Lai Kei Ice Cream shop a few times over the years. Generally speaking, their ice-cream is very soft and tastes just ok. However, its very cheap and sort of nostalgic trying old places like this.

Lai Kei Ice Cream has been around since the 1960s and sell lollis, ice-cream sandwiches and homemade ice-cream scoops pretty much the same way they have for decades.

Having a bit of space for dessert after a great lunch nearby, we decided to stop here for a quick ice-cream recently. We tried four scoops, serving size is quite small and ice-cream texture is dry and slightly chalky, a bit like homemade ice-cream that we found decades back. To be honest, we didn't enjoy the texture so much, having a preference for creamy, smooth ice-cream instead. As for the flavours, we thought the coffee and peppermint flavours were nice, the chocolate was light in sweetness and the coconut was foreign and strange. In the end, the ice-cream scopes were ok but did feel pricey considering the tiny size of the scoops (rating 3 of 5).

Overall, a fun experience if you are wanting to visit on historical grounds to see an ice-cream shop that hasn't changed much in 50 years. Might suggest trying their ice-cream sandwiches and lollis and not their individual ice-cream scoops. In the end, Lai Kei Ice Cream is sort of a fun stop to make but not something we do regularly when visiting Macau.

Tip: Lai Kei Ice Cream is located on a busy main street - Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida, which is in between Senado Square and Tap Seac square to the northeast. Make sure you know your map and keep it handy. Look for the yellow overhanging sign and you'll be able to...

Apr 23: a historical and nostalgic ice cream shop in Macau. I came here afternoon, many signature products were sold out. We ordered ice cream bricks which is coconut flavor. Also, we ordered mango, melon, strawberry and chocolate flavors. They were good. The texture is between soft serve ice cream and drumstick. The scoop is a small size one. If you love gelato more, Lai Kei may be not you cup of tea.

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In Macau, no one don’t know the Laikei homemade ice cream for 80 years. The third-generation operates it now. Laikei ice cream place in theAvenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida. Laikei is a traditional ice cream house Macau. Ice cream is the main categories of products. It also supplies tea, coffee, sandwiches, instant noodles and other foods. People can have a different traditional taste in here.

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