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What do you do when you have a solid background in ice cream, a boyfriend who is inspired by lawyers who are successful restaurateurs themselves, and both of you are bitten hard by wanderlust?
For mixologist Adrienne Nicole Borlongan, whose grandfather was a chemist for Magnolia ice Cream, opening the Wanderlust ice cream shop was the only choice.
“It’s an ice cream concept inspired by Wanderlust…wanting to ravel and explore different places and cuisine and following a nonlinear path,” she says.
Her boyfriend, JP Lopez is a lawyer who is obsessed with the success of California Pizza Kitchen, which was also started by a group of lawyers.
And because they’re Filipino-Americans, the flavors they serve in their shop in Tarzana, California, are very much Pinoy-inspired.
On the flavor lineup are pinipig rice toppings, ube cones, latik, and sticky rice mango, delicious reminders of experiences back home.
“The sweet cream latik reminds me of being in Palawan and El Nido watching little kids swing across the palm trees. It reminds me of those experiences as opposed to it’s the Philippines,” said Lopez.
But it’s not just seemingly exotic flavors that Wanderlust is offering. According to the couple, everything is made in-house. Lopez’s aunt and mom are in it, using their French pastry backgrounds on some of the munchies on offer. And hey. Wanderlust even pasteurizes its own milk.
With a report from ABS-CBNnews.com.
