Fruita La Viva
34 Watten Rise
Singapore 287337
office:(65)64638986
mobile:(65)98429954
Taste: 4.5/5
Affordability: 4/5
Location/Accessibility: 3/5
Ambience: 4/5
So, here goes the first review. Fruita La Viva, is a gelato stall, located in the neighbourhood of Watten Estate. For those who have no clue where this is, it's the housing estate within which RGPS resides. Just across the road you get Hwa Chong Institution and Nanyang Girl's High, so the collection of schools should serve as a prominent enough landmark.
Taste, 4.5. Well, the gelato here has a great texture, not too hard not to soft, which varies by the flavour, for example their chocolate flavour is the richest ever, so being slightly denser than, say, lemon sorbet, it's a bit thicker. The taste isn't too sweet, and in fact it's just rich, just what you'd expect. Ask for chocolate, you get chocolate, ask for rum and raisin, you get rum and raisin, not rum and raisin and sugar. Of course ask for lemon, you'll expect something slightly sourish, but it's a nice kind of sourish anyway. Flavours include Chcolate, Cookies and Cream, Rum and Raisin, Peppermint Choc chip, Choc chip, cream, hazelnut, vanilla, tiramisu, mixed berries, mango, strawberry, and some other flavours of which i haven't tried yet. (They're labelled in italian, so you often have to either try them, guess the flavour by the picture, or just ask the staff what it is)
Affordability, 4. This isn't your macdonalds 50cents ice cream, and I don't think you'd see gelato sold less than 3 bucks, else they'd go bankrupt in a week. Well, it's $2.90 for a "regular" here. Cone or cup, you can mix 2 flavours. $3.20 for a "large", and you can mix 3 flavours. Personally I'd recommend a regular. Why? The portions are good enough. I tried a large once and, trust me, you'll just look like some greedy spoilt fat kid with stuffing your mouth with that much ice cream. Note you get free water too, so um, that's really really affordable. =)
Accessibility, 3. Obviously, unless you're from one of the above mentoined schools, getting to watten estate can be a bit of a pain. The nearest MRT station is Newton, or Dover. Take 74 down from Dover in the direction of clementi and alight just one stop after the NJC bus stop. Or take 171, 66, 157, 170, from Newton and alight at the HCJC bus stop. It's not very easy to describe how to navigate there, so I'll let the pictures do the talking, once I get them.
Ambience, 4. The staff are nice, aunty and uncles, I just had a very nice chat with the Uncle about an hour ago. It's still relatively empty, about 5 or 6 round tables with chairs you can sit around and eat. Most people just come in, buy, and walk out to eat though. Note this is not a good idea (please refer to the special notes appendixed below). Well it's about the best place to sit and talk cock, or you can optionally check out the magazines they have, including some Christian ones too.
Fun fact of the day: Gelato is made out of 100% fresh milk, so it's VERY GOOD. Also, unlike other ice creams like your typical american ice creams, or your made in malaysia magnolia and whatnot, gelato has 0% air space. Yes, usually when you buy ice cream they contain a lot of air space in them, so you're not exactly paying for what you get for. Gelato is pure ice cream, so go eat it.
Notes: A pretty important note to take is that gelato melts VERY fast in our weather. So I'd recommend you stay there and eat it inside. You can walk about outside and eat too, just make sure it's not on a sunny afternoon. It'll melt all over you. You'll look like Augustus Gloop.
And, even though gelato is low-fat and stuff, always remember, must GET EXERCISE AND GET YOURSELF FIT!!
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what do you think of this review? Any comments are welcome =)
