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Rollup Ice Cream & Tea By Richard Martinovich
It might look too pretty to eat, but you won’t stare att it long before you’re ready to dig in! Tightly wound “rolls” of ice cream tucked perfectly in a bowl and topped with fruit, pretzels, Oreos, brownies, toasted marshmallow -- just about anything you can imagine! Rollup Ice Cream & Tea has captured the imagination of Kalamazoo, providing a unique customer experience and an equally tasteful delight. It’s fun to watch the staff roll out and craft the ice cream, and even more fun eating it! Rolled ice cream originated in Thailand about ten years ago, and since has spread, rolled, across the US. There is so much creativity and delicious flavor packed in, around and on top rolls of ice cream! Order a Raspberry Dream with vanilla, fresh raspy berries, chocolate drizzle and whipped cream, or try the Sweet S’more, a chocolate base with Graham cracker, marshmallow sauce and chocolate bar! The selection of rollup ice cream combinations is dazzling! Rollup Ice Cream & Tea also offers sandwich wraps, and a re-
3262 Stadium Drive (Stadium Shoppes) 8340 Portage Road, Portage
freshing variety of popular bubble teas. Bubble Tea is a shaken mixture of tea, milk, ice, and Boba -- chewy pe tapioca pearls made from starch -- with various avorin like Berry Swirl, Strawberry Splash flavorings Tr and Tropical Express –mango, orange, banana, pinea pineapple, milk, tea, ice and Boba. Wra include the Campus BLT, Turkey RollWraps er Roast Beef Rollup and Field of Greens er, – a spinach wrap with romaine lettuce, cucumber, red onion, tomato, red peppers and oil and vinegar. There has been a chicken sandwich war raging across the country recently and the Rollup Ice Cream & Tea Portage location has a chicken sandwich that would be hard to beat anywhere! A big chunk of hand-battered chicken, p packed with pickles and slathered with Rollup Sauce. We are so much more “We t than an ice cream shop,” says owner Matt Searles. “We work so hard being a place to come and smile, laugh and enjoy life.”
