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Ice Cream Roll-Ups

I'm sure anyone who lives in Karachi has seen the small colorful kiosk called Roll Ups outside Agha's (Shout out to Umais Khatri for making it!). Of course, I do realize this kiosk has been there awhile but I never really stopped to actually try out. A week ago I decided to stop by the kiosk and give it a try for myself, especially since I had been hearing friends rave about how nice this ice cream was.

Why is Roll Ups so different from other ice creams, you ask? Simply because this specific ice cream is made on a block of ice, and not crazy expensive either. Was it as good as people said, you ask? Yes, it was! Going for the peanut butter flavor, the ice cream was made with 3 ingredients right before my eyes. Milk, chocolate syrup and of course, peanut butter. The taste was exactly what was in the ice cream. Creamy, chocolate peanut butter. And for the price, which I think was 200-something rupees, the quantity and quality were more than reasonable.

The best part is that it's made right in front of you and you can choose whatever mixture you want. Definitely going back for more flavors later on, and who knows? I might just take my skim milk and protein powder and ask them to make a low fat strawberry ice cream for me. Yum!


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