56507 Wed Oct 22 01:34:55 -0700 2003 9 2 Los Angeles Area 0 294325 Just ate a bowl of Trader Joe's vanilla/banana yoghurt on this hot and sticky evening - it was really a treat. Wed Oct 22 01:34:55 -0700 2003 0 Zoe 1 294328 chilled elderflower spritzer from the continental shop in santa monica. Wed Oct 22 01:55:23 -0700 2003 294325 0 petradish 1 294331 Vanilla Snow Bubble from Tapioca Express Wed Oct 22 02:06:07 -0700 2003 294325 0 elmomonster 1 294334 Trader Joe's fruit bars I just tried the Cherry one -- it has big juicy cherries in it!!! Wed Oct 22 02:53:28 -0700 2003 294325 0 HapaGirl 1 294335 Their frozen bananas are addictive too! Wed Oct 22 02:55:12 -0700 2003 294325 0 Ernie 1 294336 If I'm anywhere where there's a filipino restaurant or bakery, nothing beats a Halo Halo. Grinded Ice, Jackfruit, Ube Ice Cream, coconut, Evaporated Milk, Sugar, Garbanzo beans and some other assorted stuff.. Unmixed, until you Mix it together. Places like Goldilocks or Red Ribbon or any Filipino restaurant would have it. Wed Oct 22 02:56:51 -0700 2003 294325 0 Xericx 1 294341 I chilly scoop of homemade Blood Orange italian ice from Di Dio's Italian Ices on Montana in Santa Monica is pure heaven on a warm summer night. Wed Oct 22 05:43:26 -0700 2003 294325 0 Creamfinger 1 294350 Trader Joe's Unfiltered Cranberry Juice cut 50/50 with some form of mineral water. On ice. Oh, and I practically killed myself stopping an ice cream truck outside of the Roosevelt High School pool in Boyle Heights, and managed to get a really great paleta... I can't remember the brand, I'll see if I can find the wrapper in my car... but it was a truly great lime popsicle, intense real lime flavor, bits of pulp and tiny shreds of zest in the popsicle... -thi Wed Oct 22 10:05:46 -0700 2003 294325 0 Thi N. 1 294402 Licorice ice cream at Fosselman's. (Chowhub would vote rum raisin, pup major: mint chip and pup minor: lemon custard. Wed Oct 22 16:19:46 -0700 2003 294325 0 Slow Foodie 1 294487 Ginger rosewater or orange blossom ice cream with faloodeh from Mashti Malone's. Or their ice cream sandwich. Or the ice cream on a stick at Ambala Dhaba. And Xericx is dead right about halo halo -- it's great on a hot, sticky evening. Generally tastes much better in Manila than here in LA where the weather doesn't usually oppress so much. The Indonesian and Malaysian and Thai versions are quite fine too. And one more, albeit less exotic: my wife loves the caramel apple ice blended that they're currently selling at the Coffee Bean. It's too sweet for me; I loved the caramel rooitea version they had last summer, and even wrote them to beg for its return . . . no luck. Thu Oct 23 02:05:47 -0700 2003 294325 0 PayOrPlay