Clearly, I love ice cream. This isn't a surprising thing or a new discovery. Combine ice cream with the childhood treat of a warm street bubble waffle and I'm sold.

LOCATION: 2159 S CHINA PL, CHICAGO, IL 60616

I've seen this combination around recently but I've never had a bubble waffle with ice cream. Growing up, we would drive to Toronto during the summers and bubble waffles were one of the best treats to get on the street. Blocks away you could smell the warm waffle baking, by the time you got close enough to buy it, out would pop these cute little bite-sized bubbles ready to eat.

This was a great treat for me. I ended up sharing a strawberry festival with Christel because she shares my love of strawberry and we were both pretty happy in the end. Joy Yee plus has an odd set up and we were able to sit at a table and eat most of our ice cream before they asked us to move because of a reservation. While we were there we got lots of looks from incoming customers asking us what we ordered. Some were surprised at the size of the dish but a full waffle wrapped around a scoop of ice cream will do that.

Strawberry Festival comes with fresh strawberries and kiwi as well as whipped cream, a chocolate drizzle, and two pocky sticks (we got chocolate and matcha but another order at a table next to ours had matcha and strawberry). The bubble waffle was seriously perfect. It had the right amount of crispiness and pop while still being a little soft on the inside. The part that was a little more saturated near the bottom from the ice cream still held up and didn't get overly soggy. All in all I'd say this treat was a perfect as it gets. Great for sharing because I couldn't finish it on my own but perfectly balanced as well.