Overview
A new soft serve joint from Korea and Taiwan has just landed in Sydney. It's called Honey Creme and it's serving ice cream smothered in bacon and chocolate. Need we say more?
Well, there's more. The specially formulated recipes hail from South Korea and the savoury base for each scoop is made from locally sourced fresh milk and cream. If bacon and chocolate doesn't float your boat, there's also organic cotton candy, popcorn and macarons, along with churros and cereal milk toppings. Or go for their signature 'Comb Honey', which is garnished with an entire organic honey comb, sourced from local bee farms.
The 'premium' ingredients are said to be chosen with a concerted effort toward the healthy and organic — obviously calling cotton candy healthy, in organic form or otherwise, is absurd. We doubt they're fooling anyone, but the attempt to stay on trend is noted. Though we will keep dreaming of the day when ice cream becomes the next superfood, as impossible a dream it may be.
Sydney is far from Honey Creme's only international stop and is the second Australian location, with the first shop opening in Perth mid-last year. Since opening in Taipei City in 2014, the shop has sold more than five million ice creams in nine nations around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and the States. That's a pretty strong global endorsement — guess it's time to judge it for ourselves.
Honey Creme is now open at at 20 Goulburn St, Sydney. Open Sunday through Wednesday from noon to 10.30pm and Thursday through Saturday from noon to 11pm.