On National Ice Cream Day(7/19/2010)

National Ice Cream Day - 3rd Sunday in July
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July as National Ice Cream Month. He also established National Ice Cream Day as the third Sunday in the month.
( This is official , not something businessmen made up for selling more ice cream)

On the national ice cream day, we had a ' Fire and Ice' event.
Fire: Hot Pot
Location: Little Q Hot Pot
Address:196 Massachusetts Ave Arlington, MA 02474
Review: Very tiny serving size, be prepared to ask for multi serves if for a big group
Conclusion: In this country, I have to make my own hot pot party 
(There are several things that I have to make own in this country:
Korean BBQ, Bibimbamp, hot pot, chicken noodle soup and most of other kinds of soup..)

Ice (I): Toscanini's 

Location: Central square

We ordered 13 flavors of ice cream, unfortunately, they change the menu regularly, so some cool flavors got missed , like the spicy one and tea flavor( not an ordinary green tea one), I encourage everyone to try the spicy ice cream if you have a chance. It's very good balanced, if you are a fan of spicy mexican chocolate, you would love this one

right: maple cayenne chip( spicy)

Left: earl  grey(tea!)

Our ice cream is under prepared

Total 13 flavors, labeled

Beyond imagination, but I actually don't think it's a good combination, I couldn't taste fig very much

I would like to see salty chocolate ice cream with almond, as chocolate with sea salt

These two have very alike flavor, the hazelnut one seemed to have more blacksesame flavor than blacksesame ice cream,  whatever, we love it's nutty!

Christina's has a burnt sugar one, that is something either you love or hate

But this one, after the  first bite, it was nothing but 'burnt', we even doubted they forgot to put sugar in it

But later, some of us got to like it.

Some impressive but lack of pictures: 

lavender (****): very intense, but it didn't remind me lavender at the first place without looking at the label

Blueberry pancake: yes, that was pancake!(*****)

Ice(II): Christina's 

Location: Iman square

I thought we would have more flavors in Christina', but it ended up Toscanini has more exotic flavors.

But still, highly recommend green tea and red bean here, a while ago, they had rose flavor, but gone already

Total seven flavors

Sweet corn! 

I would like to follow up with more ice cream tasting report

Ice cream is sweet, cool, make you feel good, 

it's also Legendary !