Ice cream shaped like tiles at Thailand’s famous Temple of Dawn captures imagination

Its creator hopes this process would encourage people to appreciate the aesthetic value of the Temple of Dawn more deeply.

“Everything on the ice cream can be found in the temple. So, visitors can do something like a treasure hunt and seek where exactly these patterns came from,” said Namtan.

Since May, tourists and locals have flocked to the temple’s coffee shop – Arun Cafe. This is the only venue where they can buy the ice cream, whose massive popularity means it is often sold out in one day.

“I really like it. It’s delicious,” said a tourist from Brazil, Carol Young.

“The design is really interesting. It looks like the tiles of the temple. I think it’s clever in the way they do it. The colour is great and the flavour is tasteful,” she added.

Her friend Clara Kim told CNA the design made her want to look more closely at the tiles. She was also happily surprised to find a hidden message on the stick after finishing the ice cream. It reads “You look amazing today.”.

“I really like it. I think it’s something that will attract more people to the temple – to try the ice cream,” she said.