Happy Place, Happy Space
Finally made it back to the Asian Civilisations Museum to revisit the double billed Russell Wong in Kyoto | Life in Edo so that Loving Husband could enjoy the refreshed set of wood block prints exhibited.
Before we headed in, we noticed the ice cream cart outside the museum was open; it’s been missing for ages! This cart sells old school, traditional Singaporean flavours in blocks, sliced to order, sandwiched in either wafer or bread.
Photo borrowed from Afar.com
Which flavour will you have?
Big excitement as we chose sweet corn between two wafers for Loving Husband, and mango in a slice of rainbow bread for Exhilarated Younger Child & I.
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Reading your Joyful Posts brings me to my happy place. I hope having them in one place makes it easier for you to find when you need a bit of happy therapy, too.
If you would like to join in, ping back to this post and I will include you next week.
- Carol Ann Siciliano‘s Delights: brings us another week of vignettes that brought me many smiles; if you are curious about 130 year old Finger Bibles, you should pay her a visit
- Deb’s World’s What is a lover of colour called?: features a generous splash of gold
- Gary Wilson‘s One Child’s View of Economics: encounters a focused young person with tooth that wiggled
- Julie at Eat, Play Live‘s Apple Cake with honey frosting & and oat walnut crumble: whips up an awesome cake for a double birthday; happy birthday again, Julie (I love that the celebrations continue), and also to your sister!
- Laurie at Notes from the Hinterland‘s The First Day of Fall: contemplates Fall in Maine
- Little Pieces of Me‘s Grateful Fridays: has a big week for gratefulness
- Nancy Loderick‘s Road tripping in Vermont: eats her way through Vermont
- Natalie the Explorer‘s Visiting Ward’s Island: visits Ward’s Island with family on a beautiful day
- Reflections of an Untidy Mind‘s Shake It: boogies to the groove of Peaches & Herb
- Thistles and Kiwis’This Week’s Small Pleasures: shares her exciting vegetables (including several I’ve never had before)
- Trent’s World‘s The Weekly Smile: runs across Momma Bear & her cubs
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Notes:
- Feature photo was taken in the front lawn of the Asian Civilisations Museum. The silver ball is one of five as part of an installation called 24 Hours in Singapore by Baet Yoke Kuan.
- This post is my contribution to
- Weekend Coffee Share hosted by Natalie The Explorer
- Weekend Sky hosted by Hammad Rais
- One Word Sunday: Open hosted by Debbie at Travel With Intent
Touring My Backyard 
Oh no, you are making me to debate whether I should get sweet corn or yam forever😂 That’s a good quick bites before or after visiting the museum👍💕
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Hee hee! When faced with a dilemma like this, one should get both!
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OMG you’re exactly right!!😂🙌💕
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I like sweetcorn ice creams and get them from a Korean grocery sometimes, and red-bean ice creams in the shape of a fish with a wafer coating. I’d like to try yam.
I’d also like to be able to go to a museum again!
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I’ve seen red bean ice cream with the fish wafer … good? Its great that you can get it all at the Korean mart. Can you get yam there too? Yam is not actually as weird as it sounds, if you can get past the colour – I quite rather like it.
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I haven’t seen yam, but I’ll keep an eye out for it.
The red bean is good. My favourite is probably chestnut though. 😀
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ooooh, is this the Asian water chestnut or the “roasting on an open fire” chestnut?
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I LOVE the icecream carts in Singapore. So glad that this one is open again. I’ll pass on the Yam Icecream. But, yes please to the Peppermint Chocolate Chip! 😀
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I love some peppermint ice creams (not when they are too peppermint-spicy!) and these block ones are quite delicious!
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Hi Ju-Lyn. I want to try many of the flavors. They all sound great to me.
I’m loving almost any sign that life is getting back to normal.
Thanks for for the essay above and for sharing my story.
Blessings.
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We like signs of life too!
Always welcome in this space, Gary!
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I love the photo of the ice cream choices and the tale of blocks sliced to order. I’d have to make two selections: mango (my fave) and durian, because I just discovered it through you a few weeks ago! That will be in your honor. I also enjoyed the photo of the Asian Civilisations Museum. What a great outing! Finally, thanks for the shout-out to my post this week. The Finger Bibles were so cool.
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These ice cream blocks are indeed very fun – I love your bold choices!
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Omg that ice cream block is a dream! And you chose the best flavor. Mango is the best-est. And these wood block paintings are very interesting. Wish I could see them to learn more.
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We do love our mango!
The curation of the woodblock prints were rather good – insight into the Edo period and what life must have been like.
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I remember visiting here – what a great space it is. As for the ice creamm? Make mine a blueberry ripple…or I’ll join you in a mango.
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Ah! You managed to visit this museum on your last trip – fabulous! It is a rather nice space, and a great location. Do you typically like fruity ice cream flavours?
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I would try sweet corn. But I would be open to try durian because I’m in Southeast Asia after all.
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Absolutely! And don’t forget the yam too! it’s so prettily purple!
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Ice cream inside bread! Never heard of such a thing! Who knew? But I would want to try ALL the flavors of ice cream. Could I get mine ice cream wrapped in ice cream wrapped in ice cream? They could call it That Crazy American Girl Special. 😉
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Wow! a dessert version of a TurDuckEn?
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There you go! with frosting on top. 😉
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I’d love to have the durian!
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I thought you might!!!
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Mango ice cream sounds great, but sweet corn, yam and red bean ice cream sounds odd to my ears. We do fruit ice cream here, but not vegetable. I’m sure it is good, just different.
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Hmmm, I never quite thought of them as vegetable-flavoured ice creams – but of course, you are absolutely right. So I guess it’s just a healthy treat? 🤣
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Yes, it must be healthy 😉
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How fun that things are starting to open up! Here all restrictions will be lifted on Wednesday, not that we had that many, mostly number of people allowed on places at the same time etc.
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I guess it’s on and off depending on the situation. In Singapore, we are trying to move over to the endemic model – so we have targetted closures and restrictions. Our museums & food outlets have stayed open, with restrictions similar to what you’ve mentioned: the number of people allowed in places, and for us, also the number of people who can go out together. For the next few weeks, it is groups of no more than 2.
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How much fun this looks Ju-Lyn, I’ll have a peppermint choc chip one thank you – some of those flavours sound very interesting to say the least!:)
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Oooh, you like the cool & spicy of peppermint!
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I’d go with the fruit-flavoured ice cream. Mango, blueberry or raspberry. Thank you Ju-Lyn for the mention and your #weekendcoffeeshare.
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Ah, you like fruity ices … the mango we had a very distinct sorbet feel – very refreshing!
You are always welcome in this space.
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Ooooo the raspberry ripple looks delightful!
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There are many flavours I still have not sampled, but I have had the raspberry ripple … it is rather yummy!
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Good to know that Ah Kong is back!
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I know, right? He was alone, though, and not many customers about. Poor Ah Kong; he, like many smaller food vendors are really suffering.
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We visited that museum when we came to Singapore – gosh that was three years ago! I would go for the blueberry ripple ice-cream!
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Time really flies … it feels like ages since vacation travel last happened ….
I’ve never tried the blueberry ripple ….
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Lots of flavors I have never had before. I would go with sweet corn or yam. As always, thanks for the mention.
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I haven’t tried them all … the problem is we always end up with our favourites, so have no room to try something new!
So glad to have you back in this space!
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