Tropical Ice Cream Café

 9324 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910

301-589-161

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday : 11 am to 10 pm

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday  12 noon to 10 pm 

 


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Featured in  
The Silver Spring Voice, Best of the Best 2009 and 2010
The Washington Post, July 3, 2009
 
The Washington Post, July 10, 2005
Tom Sietsema's Little Black Book - October 20, 2002
HELP WANTED (click here) We will be closed from Tuesday, 9/4 until Friday, 9/7 for our annual break. We will reopen on Saturday, 9/8.
Special Fall and Thanksgiving Flavors: Cinnamon; Sweet Potato Pie; Saffron; Apple Pie; Black Walnut; Pumpkin Rum Raisin; Cashew Nut; Go Nuts; Harambe!
Sale: $1.00 OFF all PINTS of ice cream, low fat & sugar-free and sorbets
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Tropical Ice Cream News - MAY 2012 Career and Partners

Flavor of the month 1:

Fresh peach! - Made from hand-peeled fresh peaches.

 

 

 

 

 For career contact us at

cs@tropicalicecreamqueen.com

About Peach

Growing Peaches

Peaches originate from the China mainland. Alexander the Great brought them back to Greece. They survive well in temperate climates across the Mediterranean and the Spaniards introduced them to the Americas. Grown on trees, peaches have three growth stages. The first stage lasts from full bloom until 50 days later. This is when the fruit grows rapidly. In stage two, the pit inside begins to harden, but the rate of overall growth almost stagnates. In stage three, often called the “final sweet” stage, the fruit grows again and begins to get its rich color. It retains water and plumps up. This is when the sugars are retained in the fruit.

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Flavor of the month 2: Lychee!

 

 

About Lychee

Thanks to the last emperor of the T'ang Dynasty's (712-756 A.D.) attempts to woo his beloved, the lychee fruit is recognized as a symbol love and sensuality. Legend has it that Emperor Hsuan Tsang was so smitten by his beautiful concubine Yang Kuei Fei, that he had guards travel on horseback over a terrain of China that stretched some 600 miles to his Northern palace to bring her fresh lychees.

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