Snow King Ice Cream — Restaurant in Zhongzheng District

Favorite ice cream place, located on a second floor- entrance is stairs with handrail. The owners are very sweet and knowledgeable and speak excellent English! We opted for brave flavors (pork floss, bitter melon, osmanthus and custard apple) and all were fantastic! Each flavor uses real quality fresh ingredients, and is house made. The pork floss had genuine chunks and was salty and super uniquely interesting- delicious but not something you could eat a lot of! The bitter melon was my favorite, it starts mellow but leaves that classic bitter aftertaste. The osmanthus was slightly savory due to osmanthus preserves but was totally fragrant and creamy. The custard apple had that real custard apple gritty texture and was perfectly sweet and creamy. The owners present them as a course based on ideal consumption (savory to sweet) and offer water as a palette cleanser between stronger flavors. Definitely going to come back and choose other unique flavors like sesame oil chicken and Taiwan beer next time! Taiwan must...

Cute, time-established shop with a large menu full of flavors categorized by “fruit, liquor, nuts and beans, teas, salty flavors” among others. We went near closing time and the store was empty, so we had plenty of time to hear stories in English from the adorable and enthusiastic owner. She described her process of making flavors, and even how their Kaohliang alcohol ice cream was so strong that a customer even got pulled over by a police officer and blew a .04. (Yeet)

Flavors we tried (ranked in order of the ones I liked most): wasabi, longan, basil, sugar apple, jasmine, brandy, pork floss (too salty for me), sour plum (ew). Plenty of quality flavors, and I would consider coming back for the wasabi and basil.

Also, we did not ask to try the flavors, and we just went Rambo and split amongst 3 people (including 2 hungry bois). We ordered in, and got 1 scoop each for around $100 twd per flavor.

Good times,...

Located upstairs on the second floor. Tall people, watch your heads near the stairway entrance.

So many flavors! Some flavors are seasonal so keep that in mind.

They have an English menu.

A bit on the pricey side for what you get. About NT$75-95 per single scoop. And the scoops are pretty small. It's more of a tasting and savoring ice cream than it is a devouring ice cream.

I tried the honeydew and the longan flavors. Longan was listed under the herbal section of the menu and tasted as such; a more natural flavor and not super sweet like the canned longan soaked in syrup.

The woman there was pretty helpful and even suggested the proper order to eat the ice cream should you try multiple flavors. There's a bottle of water with paper cups to cleanse your palette...