Even though we had stuffed ourselves on practically every dish listed in their dinner menu, we made sure to reserve tummy space for Artichoke's recently-launched Neh Neh Pops - a range of fabulously creative ice-creams dreamed up by owner Bjorn Shen. Between the seven of us, three chose the Sneekers, while the remaining four opted for the Strawberry Pockie, Double Chocolate Cone, Rocky Road and Mango Sticky Rice.
If you are a fan of Snickers, or peanut butter, the pretzel-decorated Sneekers will propel you to your happy place in no time. The consensus from the trio in our group who gobbled theirs down, was that the oozy salted caramel hidden within was exceptionally lovely.
Strawberry Pockie is a good one for those who fancy something fruity yet creamy. The person who picked this said that the pieces of strawberry Pocky biscuit sticks embedded in the white chocolate-dipped coating tasted nice and fresh.
The two chocolate lovers in our group were pleased with their Double Chocolate Cone and Rocky Road respectively. The former has a rich, sticky kulfi-style milk chocolate ice-cream covered in a crisp milk chocolate coating that's studded with broken pieces of crunchy cone. The latter, dark chocolate-dipped and flamboyantly dressed in colourful Pop Rocks, Fruity Pebbles and Nerds, is sweeter overall. There's toasted almonds thrown in and even marshmallows buried in the Rocky Road's milk chocolate ice-cream.
I went for the bestselling Mango Sticky Rice because I was really curious to taste the results of the well-known Thai dessert being translated into an ice-cream on a stick. Well, Bjorn and his team pulled it off in style! I loved that the creamy coconut rice pudding ice-cream block had real mangoes inside, and the coating of white chocolate came covered with toasted coconut flakes and rice crispies. This divine decadence is something I would return for again and again. But the Sneekers is also on my radar... 😁