If you've ever gotten Indian food at a restaurant, chances are you've taken a peek at the dessert offering. If you're anything like me, then that's all you did - just peek - because there was no way you could stuff a dessert into your belly after gorging on vegetable samosas, naan, biryani, tandoori chicken, saag paneer, gobi aloo, and maybe even some chicken tikka masala. If you're crazy like that, you know.
However, there have been one or two occasions on which I actually did have enough room for dessert, and once, I got kulfi. If ever you thought that gelato was a craze, I am telling you, kulfi is next, and KoolFreeze might be the one to kick it off with Kulfi bars. They have taken the Middle Eastern and Indian version of ice cream and put it on a stick.
The reason that kulfi has its own special category is that it is made from boiled milk, making the texture much creamier than regular ice cream. KoolFreeze's kulfi on a stick come in flavors that are slightly more exotic than the usual vanilla, chocolate and coffee, but are more traditional to kulfi - mango, pistachio, coconut, saffron. There are also flavor names that are completely new to me. Chikoo is the fruit also known as sapote in Mexico, Malai is plain cream, and Faluda is rose oil and tiny rice noodles.
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