Emack & Bolio’s

The space cake ice cream was pretty delicious. A combination of yellow cake and red velvet cake. I really enjoyed the scoop. Topped it off with a Rice Krispie cone which is my favorite childhood treat. The Rice Krispies were nice and soft and gooey and chewy — the way it should be! I to rely loved this and felt like I was back in the US again. I just wish my cone wasn’t always close to 70hkd but I guess this is the price of pay for comfort ! Recommended.

Came here after dinner after seeing mind blowing photos of radioactively big waffle cones. I was not disappointed. It is exactly what it looks like in photos.
The line extended outside the building and took about 10 minutes, basically just enough time for a regular person to pick a cone!
I had the chocolate peanut butter ice cream and that tasted absolutely amazing– Nutella and Reese’s peanut butter cup heaven! The cone however, shall be and only be the awesome looking vessel for the ice cream. Chewy and a tiny bit difficult to tackle and it’s exactly a rice crispy treat molded around a cone.

I’ll admit I was a little hesitant before my first visit – I had heard of both positive and negative experiences, so I didn’t know what to expect. I got a scoop of cake batter and grasshopper pie in a sprinkle cone. Loved the ice cream! It was flavorful without being too sweet, although I probably should’ve started with the grasshopper pie, as it tasted bland after the cake batter. Sadly, as fun as the cone looked, it did not taste as good – will stick to a paper cup next time.

Opened mid October… Emack & Bolio’s is a chain of ice cream stores based in Boston, Massachusetts. The chain was founded by Robert Rook, a lawyer who has worked closely with the homeless, Vietnam war protesters, civil and gay rights advocates, and numerous rock bands such as Aerosmith and U 2. Emack and Bolio’s was founded in 1975, three years before Ben and Jerry’s used the concept of a hippie ice cream store. There are now a few stores in other places, including New York, Florida, and Bangkok, Thailand (since 2014). And now they´re in Hongkong. I’ve heard that their ice creams and smoothies are cute, expensive, delicious, rich and creamy. Obviously the fancy cones have all your favourite childhood cereal flavours like rice crispy, fruit loops, cinnammon toast crunch etc. Today my friend got a chocolate coconut cone with a scoop of raspberry sorbet and loved the ice cream but thought the cone tasted like paper. I got a scoop of Mud pie (coffee ice cream with oreos and chocolate chips) in a yummy Marsh «mellow» cone with fruit loops and an extra scoop of Cosmic Crunch (Vanilla Ice Cream, Caramel Swirl, Chocolate Chips, Walnuts, Cookies). The ice-​cream was quite good and the scone with the sweet and sticky cereal and marshmallow «decoration» was too good to be true. An ice-​cream with on scoop costs HK$ 43, each additional scoop or a special cone like the Marsh «Mellow» variations (marshmallow and cereal type) costs HK$ 20. They don‘t have the colour changing spoons as they do in the US but they offer delicious chocolate, oreo, peanutbutter, etc. candy. The pretzels look too tempting. The place is packed and the atmosphere is quite cool and if they would consider to offer soy milk as an option for their coffees and also refrained from using take away cups and wrapping/​bags for the costumers who don’t takeaway, it would feel much more like a sincere and loving hippie ice-​cream parlour than a pricey yuppie trap that likes playing Don McLean tunes… And why does the staff never smile?