我怎么说 - What I Say

There’s a piece of simple delicacy, here in the heart of Jakarta.
Something called “Medan Ice Cream”.
This is one of the things left from my childhood days.

The seller will getting around in the neighbourhood using modified bicycle, approaching the customers. No, it’s not as premium as Baskin-Robbins or Häagen-Dazs, nor as expensive, but there’s something special in it that makes me always remember it.

If you buy Medan ice cream, by default the seller will serve it in a bun, a hamburger bun. He will slice it, just enough to hold various flavour of ice cream he’ll put later in it. One scoop of…
Chocolate
Strawberry
Vanilla
Durian
Avocado

All those put in that one bun. You can choose whatever flavour you like to put in the bun, for sure.
But let alone, I like to let the merchant to put whatever flavour available. That’s the art of enjoying Medan ice cream though, you get various taste in every bite…

One bite you may get the bitter taste of chocolate
Another bite you may savour the sweet strawberry
The next bite, you maybe feel the smoothness of vanilla
Then followed by the tangy durian
Finalized by tender taste of avocado

Just like what we experience in life, we’ll get one bite of every sweet and bitterness, whether we like it or not.
It's the flavour of life...