I have been reading news and it seems that the summer heat is really at its peak at many countries. Japan has reached 41 degrees while Taiwan follows suit at 39.9 degrees today. I am thankful that the everyday-summer in Singapore is still mild at 32 degrees especially if you compare to the region of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. However, the heat does not kill these countries from serving something that can help the heat. Today we’re going to look at one of the classic dish to fight the heat, shaved ice. 

In Japan that would be called kakigori but in Taiwan, I think it’s simply called fruit/flavor + bing (means ice). Simple Table is located near Songshan MRT station. So if you want to go to Raohe Night Market but you reach Songshan too early, you can hang out at Simple Table while finding shelter from the hot summer sun. 39.9 degrees is inhumane for me who easily melts in Singapore. But then again, what does Simple Table sell?

Simple Table sells something simple just as its name referring to, shaved ice in many flavour and color. From insta, it seems that the most favourite items from Simple Table is its shaved ice, in particular the green tea cream shaved ice. Wah it really looks beautifully cooling, I will definitely take a lot of picture of it before I have to quickly enjoy it, since it’s ice and it’s so gonna melt if you take too long taking its pictures. Oh right, do you know how much does it cost? 50NTD my goodness. I don’t think I can get any shaved ice with that kind of price in Singapore.

Other flavours are as pretty as the green tea shaved ice. For instance, it seems that there’s passion fruit and strawberry shaved ice too. Some insta users also uploaded picture of soft-served ice cream. Yumz. Simple Table also sells chilled drink which I guess can be milk tea, coffee, or soya milk. Now I am imagining myself eating shaved ice in my room while cooling myself off with fan (electric is expensive in Singapore, sadz). You can check out Simple Table’s facebook page (although they are in traditional Chinese). It seems that they also provide cream cake wow. One slice of the cake costs around NTD 880 but it looks so pretty. Mango cake, I think. Aww I love Taiwanese mangoes so much.

Simple Table opens everyday from 11AM to 7PM and from the Google Map, it seems that you just to go right along Civic Boulevard section 6 from Songshan Station. Hope they are as nice as they look. Cheers~

Credits: @yoho_matcha, @joshinyang, @eden_0522, @nalinsaw, @redbean.h