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Love, loss and ice cream: Ice cream uncles and aunties share their tales
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The Straits Times tracks down three pairs of ice cream uncles and aunties who have endured in the tough business of selling traditional ice cream.
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SINGAPORE – Once a common sight in Singapore, streetside carts plying ice cream – scooped into cones or sandwiched between rainbow-coloured bread – have become a rarity.
As at January, only 11 of 21 licences, issued in the past decade under the Street Hawking Scheme for the sale of ice cream, remain in use.
