Available only three days a week: cantaloupe container ice cream at Tainan's Dadong Night Market

▲ Cantaloupe container ice cream, nicknamed “Cantaloupe Melon,” at Tainan's Dadong Night Market. (Photo /Mu Yu Ting)

Reported by Huang Shiyuan / Taipei

Summer is all about ice cream ! A new food stall called “Mu Yu Ting” has recently popped up at Tainan’s Dadong Night Market, specializing in refreshing ice cream. But what sets one of their offerings apart is that it comes served in a fresh cantaloupe — after you finish the ice cream, you can eat the cantaloupe too. The ice cream flavors paired with the cantaloupe container change from time to time, and the cantaloupe containers are available in limited quantities and sell out quickly. The stall is only open on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays each week.

The Mu Yu Ting team is led by Wang Yu-xuan, head of QUEEN HOUSE French patisserie, who applies the same high standards to ice cream as to desserts. They use a Nissei ice cream machine, and the fresh milk is sourced from Feng Le Ranch. Wang Yu-xuan mentioned that after trying many kinds of milk, she particularly likes the quality of Feng Le’s milk.


▲ Mu Yu Ting’s matcha ice cream uses Uji Marukyu Koyamaen matcha powder imported from Japan. (Photo / Mu Yu Ting)

Flavors of the cantaloupe container ice cream so far have included grape, raspberry, guava, mango, and berry. These flavors may reappear alongside new ones, but fruit flavors remain the main focus. In addition to the cantaloupe ice cream, Mu Yu Ting also regularly serves matcha ice cream, made using Uji Marukyu Koyamaen’s Isshin, Wakatake, and Seiran matcha powders imported from Japan.

Pricing: Cantaloupe container ice cream is NT$130, matcha ice cream is NT$90, and other cone ice creams are NT$80.

Location: On the red brick road outside Dadong Night Market (near the intersection of Linsen Road and Chongshan Road)
Operating hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays (6:00 PM until sold out)


▲ Stall photo.