The Paw Print

A news publication created by Baruch's College Now high school journalism class

Cindy Weng

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!

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ice-cream-966597_960_720“Ice cream is a beautiful thing,” said HuiQi Pan from the journalism class of the Baruch College Now summer program. What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word summer? Ice cream, of course! New York City is seeing a new trend in ice cream this summer: Thailand style rolled ice creams.

"Strawberry Shawty" on 10Below, Mott st.
“Strawberry Shawty” on 10Below, Mott st, NY.

Also known as stir-fried ice cream, they are commonly made in Thailand.

This trend started the summer of 2015 when 10Below stepped onto the streets of Chinatown. Now many stores like this have started to grow with this new trend such as: Juicy Spot, I CE NY, and many more.

Thailand style rolled ice cream is getting popular, but how? Many people say it taste like regular ice cream; it all tastes the same. But what makes rolled ice cream so unique and popular is how creative it is making it and the fascinating outcome.

The ice cream is made on a cold metal plate. The staff puts the base along with any ingredients that you choose for your ice cream on the plate. They start to beat it with metal paddles and make it flat so they can roll it up and place it on a cup ready for you.

Many people record this mesmerizing process and share this exciting experience with their friends and family. Another student from the journalism class, Jailene Rodriguez, said “It’s a cool process.”

"Create your own ice cream" on Penguin Ice Cream, Hester st, NY.
“Create your own ice cream” on Penguin Ice Cream, Hester st, NY.

You can create your own rolled ice cream, most stores have the same ways:

1. Choose a base. (Original, green tea, chocolate, etc.)

2.Choose a flavor. (Banana, strawberry, dragon fruit, oreo, coffee, etc.)

3. Choose toppings. (Crackers, sprinklers, banana, strawberry, etc.)

4.Choose a drizzle. (Caramel, chocolate, whipped cream, nutella, etc.)

Or you can just get the ice creams they have for you. The rolled ice cream costs around $6 to $7 depending on what place you go.

Plenty of other students in the journalism class of the Baruch College Now summer program said that they have tasted the ice cream and it was a fun experience but not many of them had the chance to have it yet they would like to try it one day.

“I think rolled ice cream is overrated. It’s just like normal ice cream,” said Cody Liew, a student. He and many other students think rolled ice cream is just like regular ice cream but the reason that it’s so popular is it’s something that many New Yorkers and tourists from around the world haven’t witnessed.

Have a sweet bite of this ice cream and stay cool for the rest of the summer!

Bill Hodges Trilogy: A Review

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The following piece may contain spoilers of one of Stephen King’s books. Viewer discretion is advised.

In early June, Stephen King (also known as the “Master of Horror” because almost all his books are about horror, suspense, and thriller) put a finish line to the Bill Hodges Trilogy with the release of the third and last book: End of Watch, which followed Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers. All three books were enjoyable, you’ll never get bored while reading it.

Mr. Mercedes was published on June 3, 2014. The book will mark the beginning of an exciting journey. Mr. Mercedes focuses on the crime that Brady Hartsfield committed at a job fair with a Mercedes Benz and Hartsfield’s maddening family. Bill Hodges, Jerome Robinson, and Holly Gibneys (The Mercedes Benz’s owner’s cousin) try to figure out Brady’s next moves to avoid another catastrophe.

The second book, Finders Keepers, which was published on June 2, 2015, is about a separate case that the Finders Keepers organization (run by Hodges and Holly) try to solve with a little bit of help from Jerome. The case makes a connection between a murder of a famous author in 1978 to the present (2010 in the book).

At the end of this book, Hartsfield seems to be brain dead, but this doesn’t means he’s done chasing Hodges. End of Watch, published on June 7, 2016, talks about the last plan of Hartsfield (now also referred as The Suicide Prince, which was the original name of the last book) to kill people by suicide through a technological device, which has a lot of games including one that has an illusion. As always, the Finder Keepers crew try to figure out what’s up with him and stop him before he does his thing again.

I really loved the series and it was a great pleasure reading it. Even though the books are fiction, I liked King’s use of realistic stuff like the guns used by Mr. Hodges, or the places the characters were (at least they sound real). The suspense was another trait I enjoyed. In a book, you need to carefully read word by word so you don’t miss anything that will happen later on, and while reading the series, the suspense will kill you! As soon as you know something intriguing, you would want to skim the pages and see what happens at the end, but you can’t do that! You’ll skip so many details while you skim, for example what are the attacks they used to stop Hartsfield? Or who is being affected by one of Hartsfield’s plans and what does he has to do with any of the characters?

Bill Hodges Trilogy is a really good horror, and suspense series. I would like to get a lot of people into it, so I can share reactions and emotions with them!