It's gone from good and funky to muggy and humid inside a number of days in Beijing, so what higher approach to cool off than with a little bit of ice cream? Below you may discover a number of locations to get an ice cream repair. From gelato to "milk cheese" ice cream to vegan choices, there's lots to select from.

iGelato

If you are on the lookout for a basic gelato expertise you must positively give iGelato a strive. They provide a variety of flavors, which vary from mouth watering chocolate to avocado, which can sound barely repelling, nevertheless it's really completely scrumptious. For solely round RMB 50 you will get two scoops of any of the beloved flavors. In case you are overwhelmed by all of the flavors you may ask the employees for a style beforehand.

iGelato (Hopson One department)
Hopson One, 3F, Xi Dawang Lu, Chaoyang District
Next to the escalator on the east facet of the third ground of Heshenghui Shopping Center, Xida Wang Road, Chaoyang District
Hours: Daily, 10am-9pm
Contact: 010 5747 2681

OATLY! Café

If you are not as a lot of a dairy fanatic or maybe even vegan, we recommend you try the OATLY! Café, which affords solely vegan ice cream. Here you may strive unique flavors comparable to Mango Passionfruit, Mint Chip and Berry Whiskey, that are all freshly produced with the favored plant primarily based milk by Oatly. You can get pleasure from one of many beautiful scoops for about RMB 45. It's necessary to notice, though the ice cream is vegan, the cones aren't so in case you're vegan you should definitely keep away from these!

OATLY! Cafe Oh Mai Li
105A, B1, Huamao Shopping Center, 87 Jiangguo Road
B1-105A, Huamao Shopping Center, No. 87 Jianguo Road
Hours: Daily, 10am-10pm
Contact: 150 1026 5789

COMMUNE x Nice Cream

This fashionable restaurant chain not solely affords beautiful meals but additionally lovely desserts, together with the creamy Nice Cream. On the menu, at all three places, you'll find their scrumptious Nice Cream, which is certainly extra on the wholesome facet, so far as ice cream goes anyway. It's sugar and dairy free, so it is also vegan. Nice Cream produces their "ice cream" by mixing varied frozen fruits in a high-speed mixer, which not solely makes it style completely candy but additionally offers it a superbly clean texture. They have an array of tasty flavors, that are all of the vegan coronary heart may ever need. You can get pleasure from one scoop for about RMB 50 at any of the three COMMUNE places.

COMMUNE RESERVE
101, 1/F, Beijing Guanghua International, 6 Xidawang Road, Chaoyang District
Room 101, 1st Floor, Guanghua International Building, No. 6 Xidawang Road, Chaoyang District
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am-2am, Sat-Sun 10am-2am
Contact: 010 6502 0115

COMMUNE•X Magician Theme Store
Sanlitun Taikoo Li South Area S8 F3, Chaoyang District
Unit S8-31, S08-3, third Floor, Building 8, No. 19 Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am-2am, Sat-Sun 10am-2am
Contact: 1521 097 7183

COMMUNE
1/F, Block D, Zhongjun World City, 9 Jinhui Lu, Chaoyang District
1st Floor, Block D, Zhongjun World City, No. 9 Jinhui Road, Chaoyang District
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am-2am, Sat-Sun 10am-2am
Contact: 152 1097 7183

Baskin-Robbins

This American-born ice cream model, which departed the capital a number of years again, quietly returned to some malls on Beijing's west facet in 2023. Now, they've expanded to the Jianguomen space, so these across the CBD can seize one (RMB 19.9 for junior, RMB 29.9 for giant, RMB 33.9 for giant in a waffle cone), two (RMB 38.9, RMB 43.8 plus waffle cone), or three (RMB 53.9) of their 31 flavors, which vary from chocolate and vanilla all the best way to sizzling honey chocolate and chocolate chip cookie dough.

Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream
1/F, Guiyou Bldg, Jiangguomen Waidajie, Chaoyang District
1st Floor, Guiyou Building, Jianguomenwai Street, Chaoyang District
Hours: Daily, 10am-9pm
Contact: 010 5367 9831, 186 9951 1513

OUR little angel

Conveniently situated on Sanlitun Nanlu, you may solely discover specialty German ice cream at this store. Opened by an area worldwide faculty scholar, that is the primary retailer of its sort immediately promoting ice cream from EIS Engelchen, a German B2B (business-to-business) model that provides cafes and eating places all throughout Germany. The inside is simply as distinctive as its backstory, with vivid pink partitions and matching furnishings all through. The Barbie pink exteriors and interiors are equally matched in vibrancy by the flavors out there, starting from Thai Pineapple Basil to Black Mamba, darkish chocolate ice cream coated in neon pink pop rocks sweet. You can get one scoop (RMB 38), two scoops (RMB 59), three scoops (RMB 72), and even 4 (RMB 85), which leaves little excuse to strive as many flavors as potential in a single go.

EIS Engelchen
108, 1/F, Bldg 1, 43 North Sanlitun Nanlu (Opposite Sanlian Bookstore), Chaoyang District
Room 108, First Floor, Building 43, South Sanlitun, North Sanlitun, Chaoyang District (reverse Sanlian Bookstore)
Hours: Daily, 10am-10pm
Contact: 185 0117 0258

LACOLA Ice cream

Lacola focuses on prime quality and low sugar gelato, sustainable manufacturing and lovely presentation. Their gelato is freshly handmade each single day, and you'll even observe this fascinating course of by means of the "visual kitchen". They provide three sequence of ice cream, Classic Series, Oat Milk Series and Fruit Sherbet Series, which all embody an array of scrumptious flavors, all beginning at RMB 36 for one scoop. If you are seeking to go to Lacola you may try certainly one of their two retailers, that are each designed in a shocking, comfortable mint inexperienced, leaning into the pure theme of the enterprise.

LACOLA Gelato (Solana department)
L-SM 1-29, 1F, Solana Blue Harbor, 6 Chaoyang Gongyuan Lu, Chaoyang District
L-SM1-29, 1st Floor, Blue Harbor, No. 6 Chaoyang Park Road, Chaoyang District
Hours: Daily, 10am-10pm
Contact: 151 0167 2478

LACOLA Gelato (Beijing Fun department)
2, 1F Bldg 5, Beijing Fun, Courtyard 21, Langfang Toutiao, Xicheng District
Yinwei Tea, No. 02, 1st Floor, Building 5, Beijing Fang, No. 21, Langfang Toutiao, Xicheng District
Hours: Daily, 10am-10pm
Contact: 021 8039 4631

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